GeekWire
  • Home
  • News
    • Amazon
    • Civic presented by Microsoft
    • Geek Life presented by Network of Giving
    • Health/Life Sciences
    • Microsoft
    • Podcasts
    • Space
    • Startups
    • Sustainability
    • Tech Moves
    • Bot or Not
    • GeekWire on the Road: Spokane
    • Microsoft at 50 presented by Accenture
    • Tech Vets presented by Northern Trust
  • Jobs
  • Events
    • Community Calendar
    • GeekWire Events
  • Lists
    • Amazon Office Buildings
    • GeekWire 200 presented by JPMorganChase
    • GeekWire Startup List
    • GeekWire Startup Resources
    • GeekWire Startup Spaces
    • Layoff Tracker
    • M&As and IPOs
    • Northwest Women VC & Angel Investor List
    • Recent Fundings
    • Seattle Engineering Outposts
    • Venture Capital Directory
  • Members
    • Health Benefits
    • Memberships
  • Studios
    • GeekWire Studios: Let Us Tell Your Story
    • Nebius at NVIDIA GTC 2025 sponsored by Nebius
    • AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2024 sponsored by AWS
    • AWS Summit: New York Partner Spotlights sponsored by AWS
    • Does Compute presented by Carnegie Mellon University
    • Guide to re:Invent sponsored by AWS
    • Innovate State
    • Money Hacks presented by BECU
    • Tech Connect at Dreamforce 2024 sponsored by RSM US LLP
    • Uncommon Thinkers Welcome sponsored by Greater Seattle Partners
    • Zuper at Inbound sponsored by Zuper
  • About
    • About GeekWire
    • Advertise
    • Contact Us
    • Email Newsletters
    • Reprints & Permissions
    • Sponsors

Artifical intelligence

Proprio receives second FDA clearance for AI platform that captures key data during surgery

Proprio, a Seattle startup using artificial intelligence for improved surgical precision, received its second major clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to include measurements taken during operations, the… Read More

Event Calendar

First Ever Microsoft Fabric Tour | Free | In-Person | May 31 | Microsoft Reactor

Join us for the first time ever at the Fabric Tour, an in-depth exploration of Microsoft Fabric with leading experts! Whether you’re a data engineer, AI practitioner, or business leader,… Read More

Event Calendar

UW Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture with Alondra Nelson

The Tech Policy Lab is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting Alondra Nelson for our Distinguished Lecture the evening of Thursday, April 3rd on the UW campus in… Read More

Illustration: Stylized microchip incorporating the look of a whole-slide pathology image

Microsoft, Providence and UW make use of generative AI for digital cancer diagnosis

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

As AI use surges, tech companies race to secure clean energy and preserve climate goals

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving new demand for cloud computing infrastructure operated by tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft, which are investing billions of dollars each year… Read More

Seattle tech vet calls rapidly growing ‘AI Tinkerers’ meetups the new ‘Homebrew Computer Club’ for AI

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

Podcast

‘Embrace this messiness’: Computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li explains her hope for AI and humanity

Fei-Fei Li‘s new book is the story of her journey from China to the U.S., from small business to Big Tech, and from academic research to corporate life, and back… Read More

Speed read: This new AI-powered tool helps researchers skim through scientific papers

Don’t worry, this article will be short enough to not create a time-consuming task for readers looking to absorb its key points. Researchers don’t always have that luxury when they’re… Read More

Neurophs co-founder Andrew Traverso in lab

Stealthy startup Neurophos raises $7M to create metamaterials-based chips for AI

A semi-stealthy startup called Neurophos says it’s raised $7 million in seed funding to support the development of a chip that makes use of metamaterials for heavy-duty AI applications. And… Read More

Genomics pioneer Lee Hood joins forces with the Buck Institute to study aging and disease

Phenome Health, a Seattle research organization dedicated to what it calls a data-driven approach to human health and longevity, launched a partnership Wednesday with the Buck Institute for Research on… Read More

Former Kymeta CEO lands $6M to reimagine AI training with new Seattle-area startup Rendered.AI

There are a lot of potential problems with the way we train AI models. The datasets used to teach machines to think have been repeatedly shown to create biased algorithms,… Read More

‘Lazy’ AI: UW researchers find that tech can misdiagnose COVID-19 by taking shortcuts

The future use of artificial intelligence in medical contexts could be beneficial in improving efficiency, but a new University of Washington research study published in Nature Machine Intelligence found that… Read More

Amazon vets raise $4M from Madrona, Bezos Expeditions, others for AI2 spinout WhyLabs

Company leaders know they need to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies within their businesses to stay ahead of the competition. But studies show that most organizations aren’t yet… Read More

Bill Gates

Why Bill Gates thinks gene editing and artificial intelligence could save the world

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Windows 95 Weekend, exploring supernovas, and more

— Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in 1995? Television was dominated by ER, Seinfeld, and Friends. Die Hard with a Vengeance and the original… Read More

AI2 incubator's new home

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence hatches a new HQ for its startup incubator

The startup incubator at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is getting so busy that it has to move into new digs across the street. Starting Aug. 12, the incubator… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Lunar Block Party, Nintendo Switch Road Trip, and more

— The 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing continues at the Museum of Flight with the Lunar Block Party, July 19-21. The event is set to include various educational… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Board games; AI in healthcare; Harry Potter concert; and more

— While next week promises to be filled with parades, fireworks, and picnics, there’s also the chance to play some board games you love or possibly finding one you’ve never… Read More

Vote for AI Innovation of the Year: Seattle’s artificial intelligence clout featured at the GeekWire Awards

Artificial intelligence is one of the Seattle area’s fastest-growing tech frontiers, so it only makes sense for the field to get its own category at the GeekWire Awards. Recognizing innovations… Read More

Voice is fine, but Synapse introduces a robot named Gerard to show off more contextual awareness

No doubt the proliferation of voice assistants has changed the landscape in which we live. Whether it’s Alexa or Siri or Google Assistant, we’ve come to accept voice as a… Read More

Microsoft Academic Graph

AI2 joins forces with Microsoft Research to upgrade search tools for scientific studies

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI2, is partnering with Microsoft Research to widen the sphere of scientific search tools by connecting AI2’s Semantic Scholar academic search… Read More

Microsoft makes real-time captions and translation standard in Office 365 PowerPoint

The next PowerPoint presentation you see may have live captions or subtitles, as Microsoft rolls out a real-time voice translation feature to millions of subscribers. Think of it as an… Read More

Human transport device

Years after patenting the concept, Amazon admits putting workers in a cage would be a bad idea

Warehouse workers confined in cages? That’s the dark vision evoked by an essay delving into the worries that come along with the development of artificial-intelligence devices such as the Amazon… Read More

Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel interviews cackling Alexa, and Amazon’s voice assistant gets last laugh

Can’t say we didn’t see this one coming. The people who tell jokes for a living are now laughing along with and at Amazon’s Alexa. In the wake of news… Read More

The ethics of AI: Robots will rise, but will they rule us all?

PITTSBURGH — David Danks thinks a lot about the implications of artificial intelligence. In fact, the Carnegie Mellon University philosophy and psychology professor presented his very first research paper at an… Read More

Microsoft Ms. Pac-Man

Waka waka waka wow! Microsoft researchers use AI to gobble up record score on Ms. Pac Man

The Ms. in “Ms. Pac-Man” might as well stand for Microsoft now. The software giant has achieved the highest score possible on the vintage video game by using a type… Read More

The Amazon of healthcare? Accolade unveils AI platform and app that personalize healthcare assistance

If there’s a master list of tech buzzwords somewhere in the world, “intelligence” would be pretty near the top. Mike Hilton, chief product officer of healthcare tech company Accolade, is… Read More

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post taps Amazon’s Polly AI technology to read news articles

Jeff Bezos’ worlds are coming together as The Washington Post announced today that it has begun testing a plan to use Amazon Polly to translate written articles into lifelike speech.… Read More

Alexa, it’s too damn hot in here! Be cool, and say hello to GE’s connected air conditioner

If the idea of household appliances becoming sentient and destroying the world keeps you up at night, avert your eyes now. General Electric has added yet another smart appliance to… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Chris Pirillo’s inaugural ‘Galaxaar’ is a trove of geeky treasures

Chris Pirillo is a geek on a mission. More specifically, he’s a geek on a mission to create possibly the world’s biggest ongoing geek market. And this Sunday, that mission will get its first… Read More

  • Older

A Word From Our Sponsors

About

  • About GeekWire
  • Contact Us
  • Ask About Advertising
  • Send Us a Tip
  • Become a GeekWire Member
  • Join Our Startup List
  • Reprints and Permissions

Follow

GeekWire Newsletters

Catch every headline in your inbox

Read GeekWire

  • Apple News
  • Google News

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sponsored Content Policy
Return to Top of Page
© 2011-2025 GeekWire, LLC
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal information
Limit the Use Of My Sensitive Personal Information
Consent Preferences