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Inspired by her family’s business in India, Seattle founder leads AI startup that helps manufacturers

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She decided to develop AI software that would alert workers of anomalies in the tape during production, ensuring that substandard products were removed before ever being sold. The tool is still operational and motivated Bagaria to launch Loopr , a startup that offers manufacturing firms edge-based software to aid production and compliance.

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

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Students incorporated technologies using software, drones, chemistry, engineering biology and other disciplines into their innovations. Twenty-two teams competed in the annual event, hosted by the University of Washington’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Winning teams brought home prizes of $2,500 to $15,000.

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The UW’s Institute for Protein Design keeps boosting startups, fueling AI-powered science

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New studies, companies and spinouts are emerging at a rapid clip from the research hub, propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Protein rings designed by AI-powered software from the Institute for Protein Design. Published Dec. 14 in Nature Communications. Published Oct. 16 in Nature Materials.

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Founders with unique backgrounds unite over climate concerns and launch new venture fund

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The second was in RevivBio, a startup using artificial intelligence to quickly discover and test naturally occurring proteins and enzymes that can address a variety of environmental problems. The company’s first success was identifying a unique enzyme that treats so-called “forever chemical” pollutants named PFAS.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others. And software code is a language.” An additional use of new proteins is to detect chemicals in the body very quickly. “If

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GREEN500 Supercomputer Powering Robot Scientists and Transformational Machine Learning

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The work, led by Professor Ross King from the University of Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, teaches computers to learn more like how humans do—by building on what’s been learned in the past. . Working with research papers on breast cancer cell biology, the study found less than one-third to be reproducible.

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Fresh blueberries 8 weeks after harvest? RipeLocker raises $5M to extend life of produce with patented containers

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Left to right: RipeLocker lead systems engineer Eric Levi, head of software Andy Harrah and CEO and co-founder George Lobisser with a RipeLocker container. Department of Agriculture started trials with RipeLocker, part of an effort to examine whether the technology can reduce chemicals typically used to extend the storage life of produce.