GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) — Diena Lee Mann , former senior vice president at Seattle startup SoundCommerc e , launched a startup that aims to help business analysts work more effectively with platforms such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker Studio, and others. Prior to his role at Microsoft, Wagner was president of IT services company ManTech.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

Microsoft has an agreement with the startup to purchase its clean power — if the company is able to produce it. Meanwhile, Amazon and Microsoft continue to ink green power deals. 1 corporate purchaser of clean power globally, while Microsoft is No. Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) The companies acknowledge the worries.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Microsoft and nonprofit Team Gleason announced Project Insight, an effort to build a computer vision dataset for people with ALS. Read More.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2024

… Read More Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B in significant exit for Portland-based company Portland, Ore. . … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2021

Tony Mestres , a former Microsoft vice president who has been president and CEO of the Seattle Foundation for seven years, will leave the position in May to become president of Truveta , the health data startup led by former Microsoft Windows chief Terry Myerson as CEO. Truveta was established by 14 U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. James Phillips , president of Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Group, joined Madrona Venture Group as a strategic director. Milton Lang.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

… Read More Microsoft emerges victorious from OpenAI meltdown with Sam Altman leading its new AI research team Microsoft turned one of the most bizarre weekends in modern tech history into one of the most consequential for itself and perhaps the rest of the industry. Seattle startup Expanso raised a $7.5 … Read More .

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Some believe the technology can enhance the learning experience by letting teachers “model the concepts they want students to understand,” and provide preliminary feedback on students’ work, noted Ben Talsma , a learning solution specialist for an education nonprofit. Others have already created apps to do this.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The company previously committed $10 million to the nonprofit in 2017. Microsoft is also a longtime supporter of Code.org.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2023

Most popular stories on GeekWire Microsoft cutting more jobs in Seattle region, beyond global layoffs announced in January Microsoft is making more cuts to its workforce. Seattle film nonprofit SIFF acquires historic theater from Paul Allen estate Seattle film lovers got their Hollywood ending. … Read More .

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Vox

MAY 17, 2024

Sam Altman (left), CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company’s co-founder and then-chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. Their departure doesn’t herald a change in OpenAI’s mission of building artificial general intelligence — that remains the goal.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2024

Salpeter lives in western New York where he runs Sweet Farm , an nonprofit organization that combines sustainable agriculture and animal rescue with a technology startup accelerator. Microsoft and Amazon also have significant climate investment funds. He holds a Ph.D. The Pacific Northwest is home to multiple climate venture funds.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls failed TikTok talks ‘the strangest thing I’ve ever worked on’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered new details about the company’s unsuccessful attempt to acquire TikTok a year ago on Monday night at the Code Conference. … Read More. … Read More. into Seattle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

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. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. The deal, announced by OpenAI and Microsoft on Jan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

CarMax’s IT team, for one, has been working with Microsoft and OpenAI to leverage GPT-3.x x natural language model on pilots before Microsoft’s well publicized $10 billion investment in the nonprofit at the outset of 2023. Artificial Intelligence, CIO 100, Digital Transformation

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

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. Ziad Ismail. He is on Xembly’s board. Jennifer Sullo. and Nashville.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2023

(Twitter Photo via @hadip ) When the Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org launched in 2013 with a mission to spread computer science knowledge, co-founders Hadi and Ali Partovi enlisted some of the most successful coders on the planet to champion their cause. “You’re going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.”

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2023

(BigStock Image) The ethical and legal implications surrounding the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are sure to impact companies, consumers and courtrooms in the coming years. AI’s Evolving Legal, Regulatory & Ethical Landscape.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2022

Shapiro is marketing veteran, previously working in leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. Martin spent more than eight years at Providence in Seattle, where he led the health nonprofit’s venture capital arm Providence Ventures and its internal startup incubator. (LinkedIn Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The nation’s largest bank has benefitted in part from greater availability of engineering talent in the region over the past year as Amazon, Microsoft, and other tech companies have cut jobs. As with many things in tech these days, the growth is driven in part by the rise of artificial intelligence. JPMorgan CIO Lori Beer.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Prior to Microsoft, Didascalou was an executive at Nokia and previously worked for Siemens’ mobile phones division earlier in his career. He will start in September.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A nonprofit called Earth Species Project , or ESP, is on a trajectory to talk with animals — but with a much higher purpose than my intended goals with Roxy. Allen, the Microsoft co-founder who passed away in 2018, was interested in both protecting wildlife and AI research. The organization recently received $1.2

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Twenty years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created the bioscience research center that bears his name, Seattle’s Allen Institute is still pushing out into new frontiers. But this weekend, the nonprofit institute — and its hometown — are taking a little time to celebrate.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Jacob Sullivan is now chief product officer at Faculty, a London-based company that builds artificial intelligence systems. Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Jacob Sullivan.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

. — Brad Porter, the longtime Amazon robotics leader, has surfaced as the first chief technology officer of Scale AI, a San Francisco-based company seeking to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence through its machine learning technology for labeling data. He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2020

He said he hopes business leaders, nonprofit leaders, community leaders, and political leaders will recognize the consequences of those changes and as they set regional strategy and policy. billion could create tougher competition not just for Microsoft Teams but also for Adobe, which is acquiring work management platform Workfront for $1.5

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A new startup wants to help people save time with a tool that composes emails automatically using cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. Other companies are still be able to access GPT-3 through an Azure-hosted API, but only Microsoft will have access to GPT-3’s code and underlying advances.

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies like Microsoft, which invests heavily in OpenAI, are already starting to bake GPT-4 into core products that millions of people use. However, if you want a taste of GPT-4 without paying up, you can use a Microsoft-made chatbot called BingGPT. Like its predecessors, it has known problems around accuracy, bias, and context.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The pace of advancement has been little short of astounding, with OpenAI — and its partnership with Microsoft — taking much of the attention after ChatGPT’s launch late last year. AI2, a nonprofit research institute based in Seattle, is at the forefront of exploring and advancing AI since its founding in 2014.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Looking ahead, Rajwat laid out tech trends he’s watching: the future of work, artificial intelligence advancements, and the creator economy. Microsoft is doing a lot. There’s always more to do from all cities, communities, nonprofits, businesses. Sam Cho, Port of Seattle commissioner.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2023

The Neo Accelerator this week announced a new AI track , working in collaboration with OpenAI and Microsoft to help startups build their businesses on newly emerging artificial intelligence capabilities. And Satya did so much to both teach me and to champion my work at Microsoft. So I have looked up to him.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Machine Learning And be realistic about what they can deliver, Paoli warns.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Auth0 was co-founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace , who formerly ran the patterns and practices group at Microsoft, and Matias Woloski , a software engineer who remains the company’s CTO. WhyLabs spun out Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence last fall and raised $4 million for its AI data monitoring platform.

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Still, Mutale Nkonde, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford who leads the nonprofit AI for the People, told the AP that “the symbolic nature of this is important.”. Amazon, Microsoft, and other corporations are trying to make a lot of money by selling these dangerous, dubious tools to police departments.

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