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AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls

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A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO. Athira Photos).

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Chicago, Ill.-based

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Expedia Group hires top execs from Apple and Verizon as part of leadership structure overhaul

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Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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Amazon and Microsoft vets raise $10M for computer vision startup used in warehouses

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(Groundlight AI Photo) A new Seattle startup wants to make it easier for businesses to monitor their warehouses using artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies. Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger. The company also announced $10 million in seed capital.

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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A new spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, BirchAI , has landed $3.1 Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu. The new funds will enable BirchAI to expand and increase hiring.