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Stormy Daniels, Santa and marijuana: Amazon cleans up Alexa’s answers to certain kid questions

We know kids have always said the darndest things, but in 2018, with the growing ubiquity of voice assistants in… Read More

Salesforce plans to open-source the technology behind its Einstein machine-learning services

Salesforce is open-sourcing the method it has developed for using machine-learning techniques at scale — without mixing valuable customer data… Read More

TLDR: A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa, Spin’s uncertain future in Seattle, fighting robots at Seattle Art Fair

Today’s featured stories A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI… Read More

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A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI

Inside its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Amazon provided NBC’s “Today” show with an exclusive look behind closed doors at the… Read More

Mindshare Medical launches AI cancer screening tech that can see data ‘beyond our perception’

You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone either has a cancerous tumor or they don’t. In practice, it’s much… Read More

Jay Inslee on automation and AI

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee voices concern over impact of AI and automation on jobs

News Brief: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the coming age of wider automation and smarter artificial intelligence will require upgrades… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Get curious about making games; GeekWire’s Playbook series; and more

For many people, games are more than just a fun past time. From cutting-edge virtual reality games to some old-fashioned live-action… Read More

Apple’s Carlos Guestrin cautions AI leaders to think very carefully about how they use their data

The rise of machine learning has been one of the most exciting developments in modern technology, but according to Carlos… Read More

Lessons in artificial intelligence from Nest, Audi and a cockerel

The most important thing to get right about AI is what you are trying to optimize. For all the hype… Read More

AI2 taps University of Washington researcher to lead $125M ‘common sense AI’ initiative

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle is making an ambitious bid to give AI common sense, a major factor… Read More

SpaceX rocket trail

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends AI robot pal and other experiments to space station

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending an AI-enabled, sphere-shaped robot… Read More

Soccer on Your Tabletop

Dive into World Cup action: AI researchers turn soccer videos into 3-D ‘holograms’

News Brief: Computer scientists have trained a neural network to transform the action from pre-recorded videos of soccer games into… Read More

TLDR: Uber could use AI to identify drunk riders, big bets on energy storage, LEGO Seattle

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Tableau acquires MIT AI spinoff Empirical Systems, opens new R&D center in Boston area

Tableau Software has acquired Empirical Systems, an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass., planning to integrate Empirical’s technology… Read More

Life lessons from artificial intelligence: What Microsoft’s AI chief wants computer science grads to know about the future

Artificial intelligence has exploded, and perhaps no one knows it more than Harry Shum, the executive vice president in charge… Read More

Report: After employee backlash, Google will walk away from Project Maven AI contract with the military after it expires

The employees have spoken. Google has decided that it won’t seek additional business related to a controversial artificial intelligence project… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Travel to space with an astronaut; Tech and music in Pioneer Square; and more

Compete in a year-long televised contest. Beat out 36,000 candidates. Complete rigorous cosmonaut training in Russia. Then — travel through… Read More

Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines to bolster ‘conversational AI’ efforts

Microsoft has acquired Semantic Machines, a “conversational AI” startup in Berkeley, Calif., to further its work in building machines that… Read More

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Worried about fake news? Get ready for the rise of fake humans that sound just like us

We have heard the voice of our future AI overlord — and it’s making hair appointments for us. Last week, Google… Read More

LinkedIn forms AI Academy to help its employees understand the trendy technology

LinkedIn is starting an artificial intelligence bootcamp for its employees, providing another example of how pervasive the technology has become… Read More

AI summit at White House

White House convenes AI summit and sets up advisory panel on artificial intelligence

The White House brought together scores of industry representatives for a summit focusing on artificial intelligence and its policy implications… Read More

3-D cell visualization

Biologists use artificial intelligence to flesh out 3-D views of a cell’s inner workings

What happens when you cross cell biology with artificial intelligence? At the Allen Institute for Cell Science, the answer isn’t… Read More

Amazon, Facebook and other big companies to attend a White House AI summit Thursday

Dozens of the nation’s biggest companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google — will attend a White House Summit… Read More

XNOR.ai computer vision

XNOR.ai raises $12M and unveils self-service platform to help developers bring AI to devices

“AI for Everyone, Everywhere” may sound like a science-fiction slogan, but it’s actually the name given to software from XNOR.ai… Read More

Microsoft commits $25M over 5 years for new ‘AI for Accessibility’ initiative to help people with disabilities

Microsoft is committing $25 million over five years to develop artificial intelligence-powered technologies to help people with disabilities. The aim… Read More

FAIR competition? Facebook creates official AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, vying for top talent

After months of work to beef up its artificial intelligence research teams in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Facebook is acknowledging that… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: Using precision medicine to kill cancer — with artificial intelligence

In December of 2012, Su-In Lee was working at the University of Washington in Seattle. One day, she got the… Read More

Study finds AI algorithm can diagnose blindness-causing disease more accurately than doctors

Artificial intelligence is only getting more powerful. Today, we’re able to build computer programs that can master complex strategy games… Read More

Facebook announces major update to the PyTorch AI framework that paves the way for production use

Facebook wants to make sure the open-source PyTorch machine-learning framework supports the needs of developers who want to use its… Read More

Meet the winners of Microsoft Ventures’ first global AI startup competition

Microsoft’s venture arm on Tuesday announced new startup investments as part of its inaugural Innovate.AI competition. Announced this past October… Read More

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