Magic AI, the startup using artificial intelligence to better understand and care for horses, is adding more talent to its stable with the acquisition of Victory Parade, another equine machine… Read More
Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes based on the talks, panels and fireside chats as they’re… Read More
The rise of machine learning has been one of the most exciting developments in modern technology, but according to Carlos Guestrin, one of the oldest principles of computing still applies:… Read More
Microsoft is adding more firepower to its artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant has agreed to acquire Bonsai, a San Francisco-based startup that helps enterprise companies add machine learning and… Read More
Google is beefing up Google Translate with more accurate offline translations in 59 languages. The new feature, offline Neural Machine Translation, takes in to account the context of an entire… Read More
Food safety is a pressing issue. The latest example came last month when an elusive strain of E. coli linked to romaine lettuce sickened 121 people across 25 states and killed… Read More
Facebook wants to make sure the open-source PyTorch machine-learning framework supports the needs of developers who want to use its AI models in production systems, not just research projects, it… Read More
Michael Royzen is at it again. The 18-year-old Seattle software developer and entrepreneur has created another company and today released another new app for iOS — his seventh. SmartLens is… Read More
Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing hype undeterred by the lack of actual breakthrough applications. But… Read More
Some of the biggest and most powerful companies in technology are racing each other to make machine learning easier to use, and DimensionalMechanics, a Bellevue-based startup, has $1.2 million in… Read More
Developers using Amazon SageMaker to build machine-learning applications will now be able to take advantage of new computing resources and experiment with their models on local machines, Amazon Web Services… Read More
Machine-learning services promise to be one of the most competitive areas for cloud computing vendors over the next few years. After introducing SageMaker, a new service that helps Amazon Web… Read More
Artificial intelligence has become a primary area of focus at Microsoft, and that will be reflected in the next major update to Windows 10. At its Windows Developer Day event… Read More
Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth as a mother describes her child’s symptoms, trying to listen… Read More
Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia packed all the current hot tech buzzwords into a new… Read More
Adam Wray sees plenty of inefficiency in the $600 billion higher education arena. And the Seattle entrepreneur — who previously served as CEO of Tier 3, a Bellevue cloud computing… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting garbage. The industrious TrashBot is a long way from home.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Petuum moved into its new office 10 months ago. Now, the early-stage startup is already planning to expand into new space that is four times larger, either in the same… Read More
Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that technology in their apps without having to hire an expensive… Read More
Computer scientists have created artificial-intelligence algorithms that are at least as good as trained humans at recognizing the signs of skin cancer or malaria, but does that mean your future… Read More
We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours. NASA today announced details about the recent discovery of an… Read More
Machine learning is in; Flash is out. Data scientists are in great demand, specialized developers, not so much. These are just a few of the trends LinkedIn picked up in… Read More
Gideon Mendels has spent the past three years in machine learning research, studying at Columbia University, building hate speech detection software at Google, and developing chat analytics app Groupwize with… Read More
Last week, Facebook held a civic hackathon, inviting in-house engineers as well as representatives from other tech companies to combine Seattle’s robust offering of open data with machine learning to… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon, which surprised the tech world with a partnership between their Cortana and Alexa virtual assistants, are back at it again. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s AI and… Read More
Alexa Anthony has been around horses for much of her life. She grew up show jumping and became an NCAA champion on the equestrian team at the University of South… Read More
Fast-growing Element Data has acquired the technology assets and patent of BehaviorMatrix, a Philadelphia startup that specializes in understanding the emotional responses audiences have to brands. The “emotional analytics platform”… Read More
Leave it to the experts in machine learning to figure out that “machine learning” has lost its oomph. When it comes to terms in job postings which help fill those… Read More
Michael Royzen and Atul Ajoy have several things in common, besides being high-school students in the Seattle region. They’re both entrepreneurs and software developers who, despite being in their teens,… Read More
Element Data is on the path every startup hopes to walk. The company is adding high-level talent quickly; it’s about to close a $3.5 million funding round; and it’s rapidly outgrowing… Read More