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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

GeekWire

Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo).

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. Healthcare Technology is paramount for the healthcare industry, including the medical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.

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Tech Moves: Sea.citi adds board members; another Microsoft vet joins Magic Leap; and more

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“Her expertise of harmonizing hardware and software development in partnership with enterprise customers, and their engineering teams, will be a key component in our next phase of growth,” Johnson said of Trewin in a statement. Adaptive Biotechnologies’ fourth quarter revenue was up 25% from a year ago.

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Biosensor startup Monod lands $6M and spins out of Univ. of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design

GeekWire

Monod Bio is developing biosensors that can quickly detect viral proteins, toxins, antibodies, or other molecules. The sensors are built from engineered proteins developed at the IPD. Monod’s sensors are designed with protein engineering software developed earlier at IPD, called Rosetta.

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How AI is changing the way scientists make drugs, biosensors, enzymes and more

GeekWire

The software operates much like the AI tool DALL-E, known for generating images through verbal prompts. It starts from scratch and generates an image,” said Langan of the software, called RF Diffusion. But the potential market is vast, Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon told GeekWire.

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Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market

GeekWire

Software development openings on jobs site Indeed are down 32.8% The largest industry is software/cloud, followed by healthcare. Seattle security startup ExtraHop is one example. One result is an influx of unemployed tech workers searching for new jobs as many companies pull back on hiring plans. compared to last year.

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AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

Vox

Tech companies are hard at work on developing more powerful versions of these same systems and on developing even more powerful systems with other applications, from AI personal assistants to AI-guided software development. The trajectory we are on is one where we will make these systems more powerful and more capable.

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