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Meet the TrashBot: CleanRobotics is using machine learning to keep recycling from going to waste

PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting… Read More

After raising $93M, Pittsburgh’s Petuum aims to hire 120 people this year in quest to be the ‘VMware of AI’

PITTSBURGH — Petuum moved into its new office 10 months ago. Now, the early-stage startup is already planning to expand into… Read More

Google unveils Cloud AutoML, a new set of cloud services that promise easier machine learning

Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that… Read More

Experts explain why machine learning will make some jobs easier – and kill off others

Computer scientists have created artificial-intelligence algorithms that are at least as good as trained humans at recognizing the signs of… Read More

Our solar system has met its match: AI helps scientists find a star’s eighth planet

We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours.… Read More

Hot or not: LinkedIn data shows which jobs and skills are on the rise and which are fading

Machine learning is in; Flash is out. Data scientists are in great demand, specialized developers, not so much. These are… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Comet is building a GitHub-like management system for machine learning

Gideon Mendels has spent the past three years in machine learning research, studying at Columbia University, building hate speech detection… Read More

At Facebook hackathon, engineers combine Seattle data with machine learning to solve civic issues

Last week, Facebook held a civic hackathon, inviting in-house engineers as well as representatives from other tech companies to combine… Read More

Amazon and Microsoft unveil ‘Gluon’ neural network technology, teaming up on machine learning

Microsoft and Amazon, which surprised the tech world with a partnership between their Cortana and Alexa virtual assistants, are back… Read More

A beloved horse dies in the night, and a startup is born bringing AI and machine learning to animals

Alexa Anthony has been around horses for much of her life. She grew up show jumping and became an NCAA… Read More

Element Data acquires Philadelphia startup’s ’emotional analytics platform’

Fast-growing Element Data has acquired the technology assets and patent of BehaviorMatrix, a Philadelphia startup that specializes in understanding the… Read More

Trying to fill a job in AI? Stop using the term AI, advises listings language experts Textio

Leave it to the experts in machine learning to figure out that “machine learning” has lost its oomph. When it… Read More

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What these teen tech entrepreneurs think about Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AI, the cloud and more

Michael Royzen and Atul Ajoy have several things in common, besides being high-school students in the Seattle region. They’re both… Read More

Element Data raises $3.5M to help companies make decisions with A.I. and machine learning

Element Data is on the path every startup hopes to walk. The company is adding high-level talent quickly; it’s about… Read More

UW’s lip-syncing Obama demonstrates new technique to turn audio clips into realistic video

Researchers at the University of Washington are putting former President Barack Obama’s words into his own mouth to demonstrate breakthrough… Read More

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

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

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

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

Human and computer vision unite to help Microsoft engineers stop traffic deaths

In the U.S., car crashes kill roughly 40,000 people a year. That’s a loss of life equivalent to four to… 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

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

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

Microsoft is teaching machines to read and understand context in pursuit of building smarter AI

Microsoft is going beyond the concepts of image recognition and machine learning to make artificial intelligence smarter, and building systems… 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

Exclusive: Apple expanding its Seattle engineering center, making a big bet on artificial intelligence

Apple plans to significantly expand its engineering operations in Seattle — further establishing the satellite office as a hub for developing future artificial intelligence and machine… Read More

How Microsoft’s Project Premonition uses robotic traps to zero in on Zika mosquitoes

BOSTON – Microsoft’s robotic mosquito trap is so smart it can tell one insect species from another – and that’s good… Read More

DDoS denied: ExtraHop’s newest product detects security breaches and other network anomalies with machine learning

Last October, when a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks knocked out major websites like Amazon and Twitter, one… Read More