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Former Starbucks engineering exec joins education-focused AI startup that just raised $4M

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) Seattle-area entrepreneur and tech vet Ryan Bruels joined education-focused artificial intelligence startup Atypical AI as founding head of engineering. The San Francisco-based company said it raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to boost development of its AI-powered tutoring, teaching and grading tools.

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Tech Moves: Outreach adds CMO; new execs at startups ShelfEngine and Kaskada; and more

GeekWire

Parkey succeeds former head of product Emily Kruger, who is now VP of operations and product at software consultancy Loka. Former Porch Director of Engineering Viplav Mishra is now VP of engineering at Seattle delivery startup Pandion. Seattle HR firm Reverb hired Reggie Malli as head of leadership development.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

GeekWire

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. Lisa Chan joined Vimeo as VP of corporate marketing.

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

GeekWire

Nye served as outside counsel for Microsoft and as founder and principal of Madrona Law Group, providing legal support to Amazon and Paramount Pictures. million and acquired IT consulting service company Adaptive Technology Group. Seattle-based engineering firm First Mode promoted Maggie Scholtz to VP of engineering.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Cera Group appoints Manish Chandegara as group CIO. Manish Chandegara has joined Cera Group as group CIO. Prior to that, he worked at Maahi Milk Producer, KSP solutions, Magna Seatings, and Adani Group. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT.

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Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial

The Verge

Both lists include Microsoft Xbox executive Lori Wright, for instance, and Epic is calling Adrian Ong from Match Group, which recently criticized Apple in a congressional hearing. Tim Cook, CEO — covering “Apple’s corporate values; Apple’s business and operations; development and launch of the App Store; competition faced by Apple.”

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Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure.

Vox

But some current members of Google’s tightly knit ethical AI group told Recode the reality is different from the one Google executives are publicly presenting. The 10-person group, which studies how artificial intelligence impacts society, is a subdivision of Google’s broader new responsible AI organization.

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