Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 3 of 21

Bipartisan bill aims to bolster AI education and workforce training in the U.S.

Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced new legislation Thursday packed with initiatives to strengthen American education and workforce training in artificial intelligence… Read More

How Amazon’s new cloud chief Matt Garman will approach the big challenges ahead

Three executives from Amazon Web Services were meeting with a top CIA tech leader, trying to come up with a… Read More

Too many newsletters in your inbox? Former Alexa engineer uses AI to turn content into daily podcasts

After about three years at Amazon working on Alexa voice services, Pierson Marks listened to his own internal dialogue and… Read More

QuickBooks for legal docs: Seattle startup Aerial raises $2M to help companies organize key data

Seeking to untangle the mess of documents and data that companies hold onto and wade through, Seattle startup Aerial raised… Read More

Microsoft to invest $3.3B in Wisconsin AI data center as Biden hits at Trump over jobs creation

Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s… Read More

Legal-tech startup uses AI to search relevant case history to better predict case outcomes

Predict.law, a stealthy new Seattle-area legal-tech startup, is using artificial intelligence to help attorneys and their law firms better predict… Read More

NVIDIA invests in AI-powered weed zapping ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics

Seattle ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics has a new investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, to fuel the… Read More

AI startup’s new tool creates music for video footage without requiring text prompts

Another startup has added a new wrinkle to the growing ways artificial intelligence is affecting content creation — this time… Read More

Generative AI is a dual concern for cybersecurity industry — and will drive increased labor demand

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity — and will be a core driver of demand… Read More

AI for AP: High school students create tool that acts as tech tutor for advanced placement courses

Frustrated by inadequate resources to help students study for advanced placement courses, two Seattle-area high school teens turned to technology,… Read More

Podcast

Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change

A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater… Read More

Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launches online forum for spotlighting research and discussing AI advances

Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launched a new online forum called Harmonious for discussing research papers and advances related to artificial intelligence,… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: Cultivating the next wave of AI startups, with Yifan Zhang of the AI2 Incubator

As the managing director of the AI2 Incubator, where she plays an active role in investing in the next wave… Read More

As elections loom, TrueMedia.org releases AI deepfake detector to identify fake content

Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia.org released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat… Read More

Seattle’s Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced music creation

The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big AI hires, U.S. vs. Apple, and graffiti-fighting drones

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We peel back the layers of Microsoft’s hiring of AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman and… Read More

Microsoft design exec turns to AI to illustrate son’s book about coping with anxiety

When Microsoft design chief Jon Friedman‘s son Judah needed help with a children’s book he wanted to write, Friedman went… Read More

Illustration: Visualization of AI structure translated into biomolecule

Leading researchers join effort to support responsible AI for biomolecular design

More than 100 researchers — including a Nobel laureate — have signed on to a call for the scientific community… Read More

Washington state lawmakers pass bill to create task force to guide policy on AI

The Washington State Legislature passed a bipartisan proposal from Attorney General Bob Ferguson to create an Artificial Intelligence Task Force… Read More

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AI’s trust problem: Richard Edelman on the risk from the tech industry’s rapid rollouts

A new report points to a crisis of trust in innovation, and the risk that rapid technological change — especially… Read More

Will AI change how we shop? What it’s like to use Amazon’s new Rufus assistant

Searching on Amazon for a trainer to convert my road bike into a stationary cycle, I knew the make and… Read More

Can AI boost clean energy efforts? Tech and policy leaders discuss solutions in Seattle

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Maria Cantwell met in Seattle on Friday with West Coast tech executives and… Read More

Microsoft invests in startup Mistral AI, outlines broader AI principles

Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with… Read More

GoDaddy launches new ‘Airo’ tools, betting on AI to unlock growth

After seeing promising results from early customer testing, GoDaddy is launching new artificial intelligence tools for small businesses that automate… Read More

USPTO denies OpenAI’s attempts to trademark ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘GPT’

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in separate decisions issued in early February, denied OpenAI’s applications to trademark “ChatGPT” and… Read More

Can AI improve your dating game? Startup’s speech analysis tool offers practice and feedback

The days of talking into a mirror to psych yourself up to ask someone on a date have given way… Read More

Screenshot of Quindar spacecraft management sofware platform

Fuse leads $6M round for Quindar, which uses AI for satellite support and is partnering with KSAT

A space-centric startup called Quindar says it has successfully closed an oversubscribed $6 million funding round that will give a… Read More

Washington issues tech roadmap for educators: ‘AI is here and slowing down isn’t an option’

Washington this week became the fifth state to issue a roadmap to guide educators, students and families in using artificial… Read More

Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its… Read More

Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they’ve discovered a way to reduce… Read More