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NVIDIA invests in AI-powered weed zapping ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics

Seattle ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics has a new investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, to fuel the… Read More

AI startup’s new tool creates music for video footage without requiring text prompts

Another startup has added a new wrinkle to the growing ways artificial intelligence is affecting content creation — this time… Read More

Generative AI is a dual concern for cybersecurity industry — and will drive increased labor demand

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity — and will be a core driver of demand… Read More

AI for AP: High school students create tool that acts as tech tutor for advanced placement courses

Frustrated by inadequate resources to help students study for advanced placement courses, two Seattle-area high school teens turned to technology,… Read More

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Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change

A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater… Read More

Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launches online forum for spotlighting research and discussing AI advances

Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launched a new online forum called Harmonious for discussing research papers and advances related to artificial intelligence,… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: Cultivating the next wave of AI startups, with Yifan Zhang of the AI2 Incubator

As the managing director of the AI2 Incubator, where she plays an active role in investing in the next wave… Read More

As elections loom, TrueMedia.org releases AI deepfake detector to identify fake content

Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia.org released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat… Read More

Seattle’s Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced music creation

The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big AI hires, U.S. vs. Apple, and graffiti-fighting drones

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We peel back the layers of Microsoft’s hiring of AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman and… Read More

Max & the Purple Anxiety Monster

Microsoft design exec turns to AI to illustrate son’s book about coping with anxiety

When Microsoft design chief Jon Friedman‘s son Judah needed help with a children’s book he wanted to write, Friedman went… Read More

Illustration: Visualization of AI structure translated into biomolecule

Leading researchers join effort to support responsible AI for biomolecular design

More than 100 researchers — including a Nobel laureate — have signed on to a call for the scientific community… Read More

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Washington state lawmakers pass bill to create task force to guide policy on AI

The Washington State Legislature passed a bipartisan proposal from Attorney General Bob Ferguson to create an Artificial Intelligence Task Force… Read More

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AI’s trust problem: Richard Edelman on the risk from the tech industry’s rapid rollouts

A new report points to a crisis of trust in innovation, and the risk that rapid technological change — especially… Read More

Will AI change how we shop? What it’s like to use Amazon’s new Rufus assistant

Searching on Amazon for a trainer to convert my road bike into a stationary cycle, I knew the make and… Read More

Can AI boost clean energy efforts? Tech and policy leaders discuss solutions in Seattle

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Maria Cantwell met in Seattle on Friday with West Coast tech executives and… Read More

Microsoft invests in startup Mistral AI, outlines broader AI principles

Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with… Read More

GoDaddy launches new ‘Airo’ tools, betting on AI to unlock growth

After seeing promising results from early customer testing, GoDaddy is launching new artificial intelligence tools for small businesses that automate… Read More

USPTO denies OpenAI’s attempts to trademark ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘GPT’

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in separate decisions issued in early February, denied OpenAI’s applications to trademark “ChatGPT” and… Read More

Can AI improve your dating game? Startup’s speech analysis tool offers practice and feedback

The days of talking into a mirror to psych yourself up to ask someone on a date have given way… Read More

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Fuse leads $6M round for Quindar, which uses AI for satellite support and is partnering with KSAT

A space-centric startup called Quindar says it has successfully closed an oversubscribed $6 million funding round that will give a… Read More

Washington issues tech roadmap for educators: ‘AI is here and slowing down isn’t an option’

Washington this week became the fifth state to issue a roadmap to guide educators, students and families in using artificial… Read More

Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its… Read More

Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they’ve discovered a way to reduce… Read More

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Pacific Northwest National Lab’s chief scientist for AI finds links between tech and national security

Bringing artificial intelligence to bear on issues relating to nuclear weapons might sound like the stuff of a scary sci-fi… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond

“The biggest surprise is that AI used to be narrow. … And when you went from one application to the… Read More

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI chatbots on its copyrighted work

The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training… Read More

Startup creates AI Santa, using its tech to facilitate believable voice calls for the naughty and nice

If artificial intelligence is indeed coming for people’s jobs, this week would be a good time to start, to help… Read More

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Pacific NW National Lab opens AI center to concentrate on science, security, energy

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center… Read More

‘The epicenter of AI’: CNBC’s Cramer is mad about Seattle’s position in new wave of tech

Just a few months after it looked like Seattle was being left out of the national conversation about artificial intelligence… Read More

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