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Tech accelerator for Washington and Oregon startups encourages underserved applicants

GeekWire

Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator. The free and virtual 10-week program, funded by the U.S.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

GeekWire

Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia, led by Oren Etzioni, is making a political deepfake detector

GeekWire

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

GeekWire

And that gets in the way of taking full advantage of using artificial intelligence technology. A panel of researchers discussed challenges to adopting AI tools in life sciences at the Intelligent Applications Summit hosted by Madrona Venture Group in Seattle last week. It’s literally just there,” said Nivon.

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The West is testing out a lot of shiny new military tech in Ukraine

Vox

Schmidt traveled to Ukraine not just as a former tech CEO, but as a billionaire investor in military technology startups who has served on influential federal boards advising the US government on adapting more artificial intelligence. The use of artificial intelligence in war is incredibly controversial, but undeniably advancing.

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The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

Vox

Generative AI is essentially a more advanced and useful version of the conventional artificial intelligence that already helps power everything from autocomplete to Siri. It uses deep learning, or algorithms that create artificial neural networks that are meant to mimic how human brains process information and learn.