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
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
The ability to call your doctor’s office and speak to a live human appears to be a thing of the past as patients turn to digital communications. Yet options there… 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
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
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
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
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the frontier of crowd-augmented cognition, the concept of humans working together with the help of technology, including new ways that artificial intelligence… 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
Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced new legislation Thursday packed with initiatives to strengthen American education and workforce training in artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state and… 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
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
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
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
Frustrated by inadequate resources to help students study for advanced placement courses, two Seattle-area high school teens turned to technology, and put AI to work on AP. Pradyu Kandala and… Read More
A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater recordings of beluga whales. Upon learning about the project, another… Read More
Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launched a new online forum called Harmonious for discussing research papers and advances related to artificial intelligence, saying the aim was to cut through the glut of… Read More
As the managing director of the AI2 Incubator, where she plays an active role in investing in the next wave of AI-first companies, Yifan Zhang shares a nuanced view on… Read More
Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia.org released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat misinformation ahead of upcoming U.S. and international elections. The non-partisan… 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
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We peel back the layers of Microsoft’s hiring of AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman and colleagues from Inflection AI, considering how it plays into the… Read More
