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Seattle startup lands $6.4M to build AI medical model using smartphone and wearable data

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million in seed funding that will help the Seattle startup build what it describes as the “most predictive large medical model.” PreemptiveAI has a strategic partnership with Duke University to monitor patient data remotely and help identify health risks. PreemptiveAI CEO Jamien McCullum.

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Seattle ranks No. 1 in new report measuring U.S. cities on highly valued tech skills

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That’s according to a new report called Cities on the Tech Frontier , which assessed regional competitiveness based on the concentration of tech workers with highly valued in-demand skills, such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The report aimed to measure the quality of workforces.

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Interview: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on the future of the region’s innovation economy

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Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown during a meeting at Gonzaga University about the region’s Tech Hub designation. Gonzaga University Photo / Zack Berlat) SPOKANE, Wash. Looking at the transition reports for your new administration, one of the bullet points was to make sure that Spokane stands out from the other Tech Hubs.

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Washington governor signs bill that could stoke semiconductor industry, draw CHIPS Act funding

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However, while it seemed as if most of the CHIPS Act money had already been tapped into, Congress is lagging when it comes to appropriating the authorized funds, according to Baker and a recent report from Politico. In Arizona, Intel is building two whole semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, and, with them, 3,000 jobs.

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

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Helion plans to build the commercial facility in Washington state, where the companies are headquartered. “This shows more broadly that fusion is transitioning from science experiments and science projects demonstrating key physics to now building products and building commercial power plants.”

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Univ. of Washington plans new biotech workforce center in Bothell with $750K in federal funding

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The University of Washington Bothell. (UW The University of Washington Bothell has landed $750,000 in federal funding to support a new center to focus on educating the life science workforce. The money builds on $900,000 already allocated through the university to launch the center, which is still in the planning stages.

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Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

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Google gets better at error correction One of the big hurdles for quantum computers is error correction: It’s one thing to build quantum bits, or qubits, but it’s quite another to make sure the fuzzy process of computation results in definitive and dependable results.

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