By the end of last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asking people to “please chill” on making images with his company’s updated AI image generator. “Our team needs sleep,”… Read More
This is a story about how digital tools helped government officials regain the trust of the electorate — but it’s not a science-fiction tale about a future Reunited States of… Read More
As President Trump wields tariffs and strains relations with Canada, Seattle area’s Docugami is strengthening its cross-border ties. The document management startup is eager to reach a bigger pool of… Read More
DeltaGen, a Seattle startup offering software that helps companies apply generative AI tools to their processes, has raised $1.2 million. The pre-seed round was something of a Christmas gift: One… Read More
Praerit Garg is excited about going to work, thanks to artificial intelligence, which he refers to as “a gift.” The president of product and innovation at Smartsheet, Garg is spearheading the… Read More
Among the hype and controversy over artificial intelligence and gen AI tools are experts who are wielding the technology to address daunting challenges in climate and wildfires, agriculture and health.… Read More
The 2024 Apple Cup college football matchup between the University of Washington and Washington State University has a bit of different look and feel this year. The game is earlier… Read More
It was just five years ago that University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor Dale Durran published a paper with a title asking “Can Machines Learn to Predict Weather?” At the… Read More
Scott Heimendinger, a culinary entrepreneur who helped lead some of Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine projects, has a request for today’s kitchen innovators: please, please don’t create a rolling pin powered… Read More
Several new startups in Seattle are taking on one of the most pressing issues in tech: the growing problem of deepfakes and likeness issues driven by the rapid adoption of… Read More
Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new artificial intelligence model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a… Read More
At the risk of beating a not-dead, just-missing zebra, here’s another story about the story that won’t quit this week. In case you’ve been off Facebook, X and nearly every… Read More
Another startup has added a new wrinkle to the growing ways artificial intelligence is affecting content creation — this time with a feature that analyzes video and creates music geared… Read More
Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity — and will be a core driver of demand for new cybersecurity professionals, according to the keynote speaker at… Read More
Seattle tech veteran Joe Heitzeberg remembers seeing a random, AI-related tweet in September 2022. “Still not enough tinkering happening, for whatever reason,” former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote at the… Read More
The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is part of the latest cohort at the startup accelerator Y… Read More
Amazon will offer sellers the ability to quickly create new product listings using generative AI by providing a URL for their existing direct-to-consumer websites. The feature is rolling out in… Read More
The hype around generative AI is persisting among tech leaders despite uncertainty about its value and impact on the bottom line. “I think about it as the next internet,” said… Read More
Washington became the latest state to issue an executive order related to generative AI as government agencies try to keep up with the rapidly developing technology that is causing both… Read More
A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The Global Mentorship Initiative is teaching college students and… Read More
Seattle-based Charmed plans to launch a new AI-powered game design tool this month, which allows for rapid generation of 3D character models from scratch. It’s also raised over $500,000 in… Read More
My whippet Roxy is smart. She understands dozens of words and phrases well beyond sit and stay. She’ll “go find dad” when commanded and run to the window when asked… Read More
Veteran Seattle-area game designer Jordan Weisman might be most famous for co-creating the tabletop games BattleTech, Shadowrun, MechWarrior, and Earthdawn. In 2011, Weisman co-founded the Seattle game studio Harebrained Schemes,… Read More
Will artificial intelligence serve humanity — or will it spawn a new species of conscious digital beings with their own agenda? It’s a question that has sparked scores of science-fiction… Read More
What do you get when you put two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people on artificial intelligence together in the same lecture hall? If the two influencers happen to… Read More
The City of Seattle on Thursday released its own policy governing use of generative AI tools in a bid to set standards around privacy, security, content use, equity, and other… Read More
Depending on who you ask, artificial intelligence is getting too much attention — or not enough. That was one takeaway from my conversations last night at the opening reception for the… Read More
A pair of Amazon alum raised $12.5 million for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks.… Read More
When Seattle tech vet Samir Manjure made the transition from engineer to startup CEO, one challenging aspect stood out: enterprise sales. Closing deals often dragged on for long periods of… Read More
