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Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge

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Kate Behncken, Microsoft Philanthropies corporate vice president. LinkedIn Photo) Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training toolkit for teachers. “We’ll need to revolutionize how we train people, and we believe that AI skills can help.”

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Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

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GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The program is conducted virtually through video conferences. Browning himself was a Microsoft employee for 24 years, leaving as a director in 2014.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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. — 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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High schoolers developing accent-softening tool for call center agents win teen startup competition

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Soundwave created an artificial intelligence-enabled accent softening program for call center agents aimed at increasing customer satisfaction. The finalists were part of the TYE 2023-2024 program, which aims to guide and mentor young entrepreneurs in creating and launching their first real businesses.

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Amazon adding $1.4B to its affordable housing fund in Seattle and other regions

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(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Maritz said that Microsoft is also playing an important role in the sector by helping developers buy tax-exempt bonds that cut building costs for affordable housing and by aiding with financing for land acquisitions. Microsoft itself added another $250 million to the cause a year after its initial commitment.

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OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic team up for Frontier AI

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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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Amazon donating $15M to Code.org to create AP computer science course with inclusive focus

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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. Teachers and others interested in the program can sign up to receive news and updates as the course development progresses.

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