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Want to improve your public speaking? This startup’s AI tool aims to give you a silver tongue

If you’re intimidated by the prospect of giving a speech, going through a job interview or doing a wedding toast,… Read More

Seattle startup Tignis raises $1M to accelerate release of high-tech tools for manufacturers

Tignis, the Seattle startup that deploys artificial intelligence and machine learning to help manufacturers, utility companies and smart buildings monitor… Read More

Veteran software engineer launches AI startup Hal9 while battling long COVID and pandemic concerns

Is there ever really a good time to launch a startup? That’s the question Javier Luraschi was asking and sort… Read More

Report details how Alaska Airlines is using AI to better map flight routes and save time and fuel

If you’ve ever stared out the window of a passenger plane, or tracked your flight as it moves across the… Read More

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WellSaid Labs raises $10M to boost its synthetic voice business, fueled by AI

WellSaid Labs will have a lot more to say in the years ahead, thanks to $10 million in new investment… Read More

Marchex co-founder’s latest startup uses artificial intelligence to rethink and improve meetings

Nobody really likes work meetings. Pete Christothoulou thinks they’re such a problem that he’s launching a new startup to rethink… Read More

TerraClear raises $25M for its rock-picking farm tech as it sees fully autonomous version on horizon

New funding: TerraClear, the ag tech startup that’s using artificial intelligence and robotics to help farmers deal with costly and… Read More

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ManipulaTHOR training software from AI2 gives virtual robots a hand — and an arm

You can lead a virtual robot to a refrigerator, but you can’t make it pull out a drink. This is… Read More

27 years after death of Kurt Cobain, group uses AI software to create a ‘new’ Nirvana song

The death of Kurt Cobain 27 years ago today left fans of Nirvana forever wondering what new music the celebrated… Read More

Seattle-area legal tech startup Advocat wins top prize of $200k at San Diego Angel Conference

Advocat Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup which uses artificial intelligence to guide research and drafting for enterprise legal departments, took… Read More

DefinedCrowd CEO Daniela Braga on the future of AI, training data, and women in tech

Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution and women had better play a prominent role in its development, says Daniela… Read More

Amazon adding AI-equipped cameras to delivery vans to monitor safety, sparking privacy concerns

Amazon delivery drivers keeping their eyes on the road will have Amazon keeping an eye on them as the company… Read More

Retired UW computer science professor embroiled in Twitter spat over AI ethics and ‘cancel culture’

The University of Washington computer science department denounced comments made online by a retired professor over a debate about AI… Read More

Microsoft initiative will use AI to sniff out bribes, theft and other government corruption

Microsoft unveiled an initiative to use artificial intelligence to detect government corruption, calling it “an urgent global issue that can… Read More

Robot and human hand

President Trump signs an executive order guiding how federal agencies use AI tech

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that puts the White House Office of Management and Budget in charge… Read More

Microsoft donates $7.5M to Code.org to help students learn about AI concepts and ethics

Code.org is teaming up with Microsoft again, this time to help K-12 students learn about artificial intelligence. The Seattle nonprofit,… Read More

Bobby Cannavale and Melissa McCarthy

‘Superintelligence’ in Seattle: AI researchers do a reality check on a movie that adds romance to tech

Seattle, Microsoft and the field of artificial intelligence come in for their share of the spotlight in “Superintelligence” — an… Read More

Ted Chiang

Science-fiction master Ted Chiang explores the rights and wrongs of AI

What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that’s likely to become a… Read More

Microsoft spinning off XiaoIce as standalone AI venture, with former exec Harry Shum as chairman

Microsoft will spin off its XiaoIce artificial intelligence initiative as an independent venture, with the former head of its AI… Read More

Michael Kratsios

White House’s chief technology officer becomes Pentagon’s top techie as well

White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios ⁠— who enlisted Amazon, Microsoft and other key players in artificial intelligence and… Read More

Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of fallout without ‘strong national law’ on facial recognition

Decisions by Microsoft and Amazon to refrain from sales of facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies could have negative… Read More

Microsoft lands another cloud deal, inks strategic partnership with analytics giant SAS

Microsoft inked another key cloud partnership, announcing a deal Monday with Cary, N.C.-based data analytics giant SAS on Monday. SAS… Read More

Why these ex-DeepMind engineers picked Seattle to launch new AI startup Phaidra

Avocado toast meets red meat and potatoes. That’s not the most familiar way to describe Seattle, but it’s why Phaidra… Read More

‘The Fight Is In Us’ blood plasma campaign deploys Microsoft bot in search of COVID-19 antibodies

A coalition of institutions from life sciences, technology and philanthropy launched a new campaign called “The Fight Is In Us,”… Read More

Sony to use Microsoft’s Azure AI technology in new smart camera sensors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20rXEtG4CjQ&feature=emb_title Sony Semiconductor Solutions says it will embed Microsoft’s Azure AI technology into its new intelligent vision sensor for smart… Read More

Anduril HQ

Anduril Industries expands to Seattle, seeks engineers to work on defense tech

Irvine, Calif.-based Anduril Industries says it’s opening a new office in Seattle and will be hiring engineers to work on… Read More

Coronavirus research visualization

Software tools for mining COVID-19 research studies go viral among scientists

One month after the debut of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, or CORD-19, the database of coronavirus-related research papers has… Read More

Microsoft launches Open Data Campaign to narrow ‘data divide’ as information is consolidated

The U.S., China, and about 100 companies are poised to capture the majority of the world’s data, according to Microsoft.… Read More

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AI2 and Microsoft join the White House’s push to enlist AI for the war on coronavirus

A consortium of tech leaders — including Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s charity… Read More

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