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NYT v. GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry-defining copyright dispute

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” Bill Gates wrote those words in a landmark open letter in February 1976, calling on personal computer hobbyists to stop stealing software produced by the scrappy young “Micro-Soft” team without paying for it. The lawsuit also delves into the implications of AI for journalism and democracy.

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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. Only four days earlier, the IPD’s next-generation protein structure prediction and design tool — RoseTTAFold All-Atom — was featured on the cover of the journal Science.

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Tech Moves: PNNL director returns to Wash. Dept. of Commerce; Seattle comms exec departs Forbes

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. — Joseph Williams is returning to the Washington state Department of Commerce to lead information and communication technology (ICT) sector development, after serving as the Seattle director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 2019 to 2022.

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Brains vs. bots in the newsroom: Can AI generate better story ideas than humans can?

GeekWire

GeekWire is relaunching its “Bot or Not” series today, exploring the line between human ingenuity and artificial intelligence, just as the new era of generative AI makes that line blurrier than ever. The experiment drove home how much more efficient and fast artificial intelligence is than humans in coming up with ideas.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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Xembly Photo) — Ziad Ismail is now chief operating officer of Xembly , a Seattle startup that offers an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, to-do lists and more. billion campus development plan and its effort to achieve net-zero emissions.

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GREEN500 Supercomputer Powering Robot Scientists and Transformational Machine Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

Using HPC from the University of Cambridge, researchers are creating a new method of machine learning whereby the computer ‘learns how to learn’—which could advance studies in drug development and disease treatment. A team from the UK, Sweden, India, and the Netherlands developed the approach, known as transformational machine learning (TML).

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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