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White House’s chief technology officer becomes Pentagon’s top techie as well

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White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios speaks at the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Tech Prom in 2018. White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios ?— Kratsios will also keep his CTO role in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Walmart tech vet, AI2 research scientists are behind new Seattle startup Spiffy

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Spiffy co-founders, from top left: CEO Aniket Deosthali; CSO Iz Beltagy; CTO Sameer Singh; and Chief Architect Matthew Peters. It spun out of the AI2 Incubator at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle. Spiffy’s core technology traces its roots to research at AI2.

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Truly Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools You Can Use Today

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We know you, dear readers, have been tracking the megatrend of artificial intelligence. The list is by no means comprehensive, but is definitely representative of what is available now: Artificial Intelligence On Your Phone: Siri : Part of Apple's iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Intelligent personal assistant.

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President Trump signs an executive order guiding how federal agencies use AI tech

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Artificial intelligence is expected to be an increasingly important policy issue. President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that puts the White House Office of Management and Budget in charge of drawing up a roadmap for how federal agencies use artificial intelligence software.

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Microsoft, PNNL and UW leap into White House’s $1B initiative for AI and quantum research

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Krysta Svore, who leads the Microsoft Quantum – Redmond group at Microsoft Research, explains how quantum computing hardware works at a Seattle science meeting in February. Next Generation Quantum Science and Engineering will focus on building the infrastructure for quantum computing technology. GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle).

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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

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DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace Project) A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates — not by making fresh observations of the night sky, but by sifting through archives of astronomical data. The project analyzed 5.4

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Why AI is key to hiring and retaining developers

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By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax It’s high time to treat HR as every bit as important to your company’s artificial intelligence strategy as IT. AI: An opportunity for your developers to make an impact It isn’t hard to grasp why. And the stakes are high.