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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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This startup aims to improve recycling by capturing ‘chemical fingerprints’ with high-tech cameras

GeekWire

Metaspectral uses hyperspectral cameras to rapidly create a chemical fingerprint of plastic items, distinguishing between polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and polypropylene (PP) plastics. “It allows us to make up a chemical fingerprint off the material we’re looking at.”

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Google and ZebiAI launch Chemome Initiative to identify ?chemical probes? with AI models

Venture Beast

Google partnered with startup ZebiAI to launch the Chemome Initiative, which aims to identify 'chemical probes' using AI techniques. Read More.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 1, 2023

GeekWire

Most popular stories on GeekWire ‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. where the company ultimately plans to employ 25,000 people.

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University student entrepreneurs pitch planet-protecting ideas in annual ‘Environmental Innovation Challenge’

GeekWire

Jones Foundation Second Place Prize and the $2,500 Eric Carlson Best Idea for Climate Impact Prize C-1 Bio is developing a strategy for capturing carbon dioxide using specially engineered aquatic bacteria that can turn the carbon into precursor chemicals for industrial uses.

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ChatGPT could make bioterrorism horrifyingly easy

Vox

Riot police don gas masks and anti-chemical gloves on March 24, 1995, before raiding a commune of the religious cult the “Aum Supreme Truth” in Kamikuishiki village west of Tokyo. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP via Getty Images The biggest risk from advanced artificial intelligence is biological.

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Seattle VC says this startup is the ‘fastest growing company I’ve seen’ in 23 years of investing

GeekWire

Weeds may be a fast-growing headache for farmers, but a startup building machinery powered by artificial intelligence to zap them is growing pretty quickly, too. The 2022 LaserWeeder from Carbon Robotics has a span of three crop rows, roughly 20 feet wide, and uses 30 lasers to zap weeds. Carbon Robotics Image).

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