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From Microsoft VP to law student: What this exec’s career transition says about AI and the law

Mike Angiulo worked at Microsoft for 25 years as an engineering manager and vice president for products including Windows PCs,… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa hands off to Pete Carroll so the Seahawks coach can share his nuggets of wisdom

You don’t have to be in the Seattle Seahawks locker room or on the sidelines to get motivated by Pete… Read More

Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

In an effort to prevent deaths and injuries caused by crashes between vehicles, bikes and pedestrians, the city of Bellevue,… 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

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

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

AI illustration: N. Hanacek / NIST

How AI is helping scientists in the fight against COVID-19, from robots to predicting the future

Artificial intelligence is playing a part in each stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, from predicting the spread of the novel… Read More

The quest for a better blockchain: Former Microsoft AI chief invests in Seattle startup Asensys

Asensys, a Seattle startup promising to build a more scalable and efficient blockchain infrastructure, has landed noted computer scientist and… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft names Windows Insider leader; WA Lt. Gov. leaving to join Jesuits; Axon hires Amazon AI vet

— Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced Amanda Langowski as the new lead for the Windows Insider program, an… Read More

CORD-19 logo

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

3 Seattle companies make CB Insights’ list of world’s most promising AI startups

CB Insights released its annual list of 100 most promising artificial intelligence startups in the world and three Seattle-area companies… Read More

Michael Kratsios

White House’s top techie explains how AI initiative will help Seattle tech community

One year after the White House kicked off the American AI Initiative, its effects on research and development in the… Read More

Eric Horvitz

AI vs. humans? Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz sees the future as AI-human partnership

Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a rising competitor for human intelligence, in settings ranging from human-vs.-machine card games to… Read More

AI document engineering startup Docugami raises $10M seed round in unusually large early stage deal

Docugami, a startup aiming to reinvent the way businesses create and extract information from documents, has raised an extraordinary $10… Read More

Univ. of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce joins AI2’s board to build on Paul Allen’s legacy

University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce has joined the board of directors for the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,… Read More

Microsoft launches $40M initiative to solve global health challenges with AI

Microsoft launched a major health research initiative Wednesday to address some of the medical world’s most confounding challenges using artificial… Read More

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for AI regulation at Davos

Microsoft President Brad Smith said Tuesday that the time to regulate artificial intelligence is now, speaking at the annual gathering… Read More

AI2 offices

AI2 Incubator hatches a $10M fund for AI startups with support from big-name VCs

Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is kicking things up more than a notch for AI startups with a $10… Read More

Trump administration’s new AI principles seek to limit regulatory ‘overreach’ to promote innovation

The Trump administration is proposing a new set of principles for federal agencies to follow when creating regulations for artificial… Read More

Tech experts agree it’s time to regulate artificial intelligence — if only it were that simple

Artificial intelligence is here, it’s just the beginning, and it’s time to start thinking about how to regulate it. Those… Read More

Podcast

DIY AI: One mom’s quest to use machine learning to help others detect a rare fetal condition

Melissa Mulholland was 16 weeks pregnant with her second child when her doctor noticed something unusual in an ultrasound scan.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Artificial intelligence in public policy; podcasting tips; and more

— Government, higher education, and workforce management are just a few places where artificial intelligence is popping up. In hopes… Read More

Alexa, why so emotional? Because Amazon has created realistic new voice tones for its assistant

If you’ve ever felt like Amazon’s Alexa was using the wrong tone with you, well, there was really no point… Read More

In Seattle exhibition, Microsoft AI and mixed reality power immersive look at historic French monastery

An immersive new exhibition at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry is blending technology from the 17th and 21st centuries… Read More

Stealthly startup Yor Labs raises cash for AI-powered handheld ultrasound system

New funding: Portland, Ore.-based startup Yor Labs raised $3.3 million to fund the development of a lightweight ultrasound system powered… Read More

Average standardized AI exposure

Study suggests AI’s disruptive effect on jobs will hit higher on economic and education scales

When experts talk about the disruptive effects of artificial intelligence, they tend to focus on low-paid laborers — but a… Read More

Oh, Christmas tree, even you are turned on by Amazon and Alexa … and it might be pretty cool

Forget the WAR ON CHRISTMAS and whatever color the Starbucks holiday cup is this year. Big tech is coming for… Read More

Alexa, who’s laughing now? Five years after debut, Amazon’s voice assistant defies early critics

If you woke up this morning and said anything to Amazon’s Alexa, hopefully “happy birthday” was in there somewhere, as… Read More

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