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Shift AI Podcast: Setting AI guidelines at work, with City of Seattle interim CTO, Jim Loter

GeekWire

Everything from acquisitions and procurement to operational management to IT projects to application development is all done in our department. We brought in some folks from Microsoft and we consulted with folks from Adobe and from AWS to give us their perspectives on what was emerging. Being mission-driven is important to me.

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Microsoft announces AI newsroom projects with Semafor and others, as NYT lawsuit looms

GeekWire

Microsoft will work with several news organizations to explore and implement new applications of generative artificial intelligence in newsrooms and business operations. Microsoft declined to disclose the amount of funding it’s providing for any of the projects.

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Microsoft is giving businesses access to OpenAI’s powerful AI language model GPT-3

The Verge

Now, Microsoft is making an upgraded version of the program, OpenAI’s autocomplete software GPT-3, available to business customers as part of its suite of Azure cloud tools. Microsoft already uses GPT-3 in its products. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Startups like Copy.ai

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Seattle-area tech exec pleads guilty in scheme to obtain and launder $5.5M in PPP loans

GeekWire

million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and launder the proceeds pled guilty on Monday. submitted at least eight fraudulent PPP loan applications on behalf of six different companies to federally insured financial institutions. A Washington tech executive charged in a scheme to obtain more than $5.5 Acting U.S.

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U.S. Department of Defense sets its cloud security guidelines

Cloud Musings

The CSO itself has to be fully evaluated for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) compliance. For small integrators trying to migrate applications to the cloud on behalf of the federal government, it makes the proposition riskier. Compliance responsibility is on the prime CSP.

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Are office-to-residential exemptions in downtown Seattle a friend or foe to livability in the city?

GeekWire

While usually a problematic and expensive process — applicable to a relatively small percentage of empty or partially occupied buildings — these conversions have been at the forefront of post-pandemic policies at all levels of government. Design review in Seattle has been vilified in recent years as a classic bugaboo of delay.

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Technology Short Take 158

Scott Lowe

Gabriel Sieben ruminates on the potential dangers of Microsoft Pluton , a new security chip co-developed by Microsoft and AMD. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro tears into the “wasting disk space” argument against the Flatpak application package format. Programming. Servers/Hardware.

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