A new quiz from Seattle-based AI nonprofit TrueMedia tests how well people can spot deepfake images, videos and audio clips, highlighting the need for people to be aware of what’s… Read More
How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation? And how can scrappy startups hope to compete with well-funded… Read More
Butterflies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based social media platform that combines human and AI-generated content, launched Tuesday after raising $4.8 million in seed funding. After five months in beta, Butterflies is billed… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle’s cloud giants, albeit in very different ways for each. Microsoft President Brad Smith was in… Read More
Collaborative Robotics, the Santa Clara, Calif., company founded in 2022 by former Amazon Robotics VP and Distinguished Engineer Brad Porter, has hired Michael Vogelsong, who co-founded Amazon’s Deep Learning Technologies… Read More
Will intelligent AI agents take on the job of capsule communicator in future missions to the moon, Mars and other space destinations? It could happen, says James Burk, the executive… Read More
Entrepreneurs building AI-fueled startups may soon have a new resource in Seattle, thanks to an effort from city and state leaders. Earlier this year, Washington state lawmakers approved $800,000 in… Read More
“You need to use your human intelligence. No AI will take this away from you. … You need to just realize how beautiful this is, to be a human. And… Read More
Anyone who has ever tried photojournalism knows how great it feels — and how difficult it can be — to take a good picture when covering a live news event.… Read More
Victor Cho wants to reimagine the way people communicate at work. Cho, the former CEO of Evite, is leading a stealthy new Seattle startup that wants to do away with… Read More
Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to help preserve the history of D-Day, 80 years after allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, and turned the tide of World… Read More
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doesn’t need to be sold on the value of AI. The world’s largest bank has been working on artificial intelligence for more than a decade.… Read More
A couple of high-tech workers are part of the crew helping to construct a new residential tower in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. They roll through the place, take a bunch of… Read More
A job posting by Wizards of the Coast went viral on social media over the weekend, highlighting some consumers’ lack of enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence, as well as the… Read More
Enterprise artificial intelligence company Xembly told users that it’s discontinuing its “customer-facing services,” which included an AI assistant that automatically handled tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, and action items.… Read More
Seattle-area high school students competed in the finals of the TiE Young Entrepreneur (TYE) Seattle chapter finals competition last week and a team called Soundwave is moving on to TYE’s… Read More
After he left Amazon following more than eight years as an executive working on such things as last-mile delivery innovation and Alexa privacy compliance, Trent Gillespie would often be approached… Read More
Perhaps you’ve heard the admonishment “look at me when I’m speaking to you.” But what if while wearing headphones you could listen to someone more clearly just by looking at… Read More
Three executives from Amazon Web Services were meeting with a top CIA tech leader, trying to come up with a creative solution to an issue that was facing the U.S.… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft showed new integrations between its Copilot artificial intelligence technologies and its Windows PC operating system, and previewed a new class of personal computers designed to further… Read More
After about three years at Amazon working on Alexa voice services, Pierson Marks listened to his own internal dialogue and left to launch a startup. A Southern California native who… Read More
Seeking to untangle the mess of documents and data that companies hold onto and wade through, Seattle startup Aerial raised $2 million for its AI-powered answer to unstructured business data… Read More
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
As a distinguished engineer working on the Microsoft Azure AI Search team, Pablo Castro has insight into the inner workings of generative AI, AI search, and the approach that Microsoft… Read More
Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s job-creation efforts in the key election battleground state. The investment,… Read More
Predict.law, a stealthy new Seattle-area legal-tech startup, is using artificial intelligence to help attorneys and their law firms better predict the outcome of legal cases. Applying AI and machine learning… Read More
Seattle ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics has a new investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, to fuel the company’s AI-powered farming solutions. The amount of the funding was… 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
Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud… Read More
