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TurboPatent aims to improve the patent process with new artificial intelligence products

Seattle startup TurboPatent is releasing a pair of new products designed to improve the patent application process, with help from… Read More

Salesforce’s new Einstein AI services can detect if and why social media hates your product

Salesforce is expanding its Einstein artificial intelligence services for developers writing apps on its platform, launching three new services that… Read More

Amazon Alexa and Google Home at Best Buy

Best Buy introducing Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences to 700 U.S. stores

There’s going to be a lot of chatter about and with voice-activated assistants in Best Buy stores thanks to new Amazon… Read More

JASK raises $12M in funding to help security pros prioritize threats with a crowdsourced AI model

Enterprise security is a much more labor-intensive task that a lot of people realize, and a new cybersecurity startup intends… Read More

Siri

Apple’s Seattle job listings reveal desire to attract AI talent to work on Siri in the land of Amazon’s Alexa

When Apple announced plans earlier this year to expand its engineering operation in Seattle, the company said it would be… Read More

Report: AWS set to add machine-translation services for developers

It sounds like Amazon Web Services is getting ready to bring translation technology used on the Amazon.com side of the… Read More

SparkPredict application

Boeing’s HorizonX joins $32.5M funding round for SparkCognition AI venture

Boeing’s recently established venture arm, HorizonX, has joined with other investors in a $32.5 million funding round for SparkCognition, a… Read More

Google’s new AI investment arm leads $10.5M round in Algorithmia machine-learning marketplace

Google’s new artificial intelligence investment arm has made one of its first bets, leading a $10.5 million Series A round… Read More

Academic search engines

Microsoft, Google and Baidu team up with Paul Allen’s AI2 on Open Academic Search

Microsoft, Google and Baidu may be competitors in the business world, but when it comes to open-access academic resources, they’re… Read More

Amazon just acquired a training ground for retail artificial intelligence research

Amazon didn’t acquire an iconic grocery store brand just for the quinoa: Whole Foods operates hundreds of retail data mines,… Read More

Seattle’s Highspot raises $15M from Shasta Ventures and Salesforce Ventures to build out AI-powered sales tools

Highspot thinks its artificial intelligence models are making sales organizations much more efficient, and it has raised $15 million in… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Amazon Web Services AI exec: How cloud computing is driving artificial intelligence breakthroughs

Artificial intelligence research is still in its infancy, at least as compared to computer science in general, but the concept… Read More

JetBlue Vacations

Utrip partners with JetBlue to combine AI and human expertise in airline’s trip-planning portal

Planning a vacation with the help of artificial intelligence just got a boost thanks to JetBlue and its new partnership… Read More

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Bundle

Bellevue’s DimensionalMechanics releases the engine behind its AI templates

Bellevue-based DimensionalMechanics wants to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence models to companies across different industries that can’t afford to develop their… Read More

Facebook’s AI training models can now process 40,000 images a second

Artificial intelligence researchers at Facebook have figured out how to train their AI models for image recognition at eye-popping speeds.… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Swami Sivasubramanian on the future of AI in the cloud

It’s pretty clear that the next big battleground for public cloud providers will involve artificial intelligence. Just as companies like… Read More

Report: Google planning AI venture capital group led by engineers

Google has always been a company run by engineers for engineers. It looks like it’s also going to give some… Read More

Summoning the Demon: Why superintelligence is humanity’s biggest threat

[Editor’s Note: This guest commentary is by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy, authors of the new book, Warnings: Finding Cassandras To Stop… Read More

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son.

Report: ARM-owner Softbank takes $4B stake in Nvidia as AI research heats up

Softbank is shaping up to be a major force behind the chip designs of the next decade, if a report… Read More

Conversica’s new Seattle office cements city’s status as AI and machine learning hotbed

Conversica is looking for top tier-talent in artificial intelligence and machine learning. That’s why the company, which makes AI software and… Read More

Nutanix adding IBM’s Power processors to its data center bundles for AI applications

Nutanix plans to release a line of server appliances with IBM’s Power processor for artificial-intelligence applications, the first time it… Read More

The race for machine learning talent continues, as Apple acquires Madrona-backed Lattice Data

Data-crunching startup Lattice Data has been acquired by Apple, as the battle for machine learning talent continues between big tech… Read More

Reid Hoffman: ‘If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good’

What would happen if we put artificial intelligence on a path to enlightenment? LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member Reid… Read More

Q&A: Geek of the Year Ed Lazowska talks UW’s future in computer science and impact on the Seattle tech scene

The University of Washington’s fingerprints were all over last night’s GeekWire Awards. Two of the Deal of the Year finalists, Impinj’s… Read More

Microsoft Ventures doubles down on AI with new investments in Agolo and Bonsai

Ever feel like there’s just too much information out there? New York-based Agolo is hoping so. The startup is developing a… Read More

Safeco Field

‘Alexa, get us some wins!’ Seattle Mariners add Amazon Echos to private suites at ballpark

Fans of the Seattle Mariners might have a lot of questions about why their team is off to a slow… Read More

WeChat parent Tencent is opening an A.I. lab in Seattle led by former Microsoft researcher

Tencent, the Chinese tech titan behind WeChat and a wide range of other services, plans to double down on artificial intelligence… Read More

Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has ‘a pretty good shot’ of overtaking AWS in five years

Place your bets: Google Cloud Platform head Diane Greene told attendees at the Forbes CIO Summit last night that she… Read More

Amazon’s newest pillars? AI and logistics key to tech giant’s future, study says

Amazon has evolved constantly throughout its more than 20-year life span, first as a book seller, than an e-commerce giant, and… Read More

Element Data raises $1.7M to power platform that helps people make decisions using A.I.

Element Data, a Seattle startup that uses machine learning to help people and organizations make big decisions, just closed a… Read More

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