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Leading researchers join effort to support responsible AI for biomolecular design

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Haydon / UW Institute for Protein Design) More than 90 researchers — including a Nobel laureate — have signed on to a call for the scientific community to follow a set of safety and security standards when using artificial intelligence to design synthetic proteins.

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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology

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The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. But IBM was also found to be sharing a separate training data set of nearly one million photos in January 2019 taken from Flickr without the consent of the subjects — though the photos were shared under a Creative Commons license.

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Seattle biotech startup Deverra Therapeutics raising cash to develop cellular immunotherapies

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Colleen Delaney, the founder, chief scientific officer, and executive vice president of research and development at Deverra Therapeutics. Founded in 2019, Deverra has an exclusive license from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for a stem cell expansion and directed-differentiation platform.

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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets

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When a court-appointed overseer took hold of the operations of the Infectious Disease Research Institute in early 2020 it was unclear how the Seattle organization would weather the change. Casper, who became interim CEO in 2019 before permanently taking the helm in early 2020, recommended that the institution voluntarily enter receivership.

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UW spinout Overland AI raises $10M for off-road self-driving tech used by U.S. military

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Overland Photo) A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S. Overland recently was selected to continue development as part of the competition.

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Washington governor signs executive order to develop guidelines for generative AI use

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Jay Inslee speaking at a 2019 event in Seattle. GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Washington became the latest state to issue an executive order related to generative AI as government agencies try to keep up with the rapidly developing technology that is causing both optimism and concern over its potential impact.

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Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers

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The structure opened in downtown Seattle in 2019. The startup has an exclusive license to use novel CAR T-cell technology developed by Jensen and his team. BrainChild Bio will rent space in the Seattle Children’s building Building Cure.