The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Google is walking back plans to replace third-party cookies with FLoC by instead proposing the Topics API, a new system for interest-based advertising. Google says that these categories “are selected entirely on your device” and don’t involve “any external servers, including Google servers.” Image by Google.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Instead, developers can freely build apps that incorporate its functionality and services using it will be launched by partners like the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The CiviForm tool was developed by the City of Seattle’s Innovation and Performance team and Seattle Information Technology Department and first piloted in June 2021. Paco Galanes , leader of Google’s Seattle-area offices, said the company jumped at the opportunity to support the City of Seattle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2024

. … Read More Microsoft names DeepMind co-founder and former Google exec as its new CEO of AI Microsoft added some big names to its AI leadership Tuesday with the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and a former Google vice president of artificial intelligence, to lead a new organization called Microsoft AI.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This Google video of Gemini was revealed to have been heavily edited, raising questions about real capabilities of the new AI model. Google Video) In the past year, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Google is promoting Gemini as natively multimodal. The subsequent media response has been less than generous.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. The developer day was an issue. At the event, on Nov.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The company was originally founded as a nonprofit focused on AI research in 2015. That allowed investors to pour money into OpenAI and potentially earn a return on it, though their profits would be capped, according to the rules of the new setup, and anything above the cap would revert to the nonprofit. Not to investors. To humanity.

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CTOvision

JUNE 6, 2014

Fight for the Future , a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and Internet freedom, is spearheading an anti- National Security Agency protest on June 5 th to Reset the Net. Notable supporters of the initiative include Greenpeace, Google, Reddit, the ACLU, DuckDuckGo, and Amnesty International. By ShannonPerry.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Shaw previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, most recently as head of engineering, developer services, in the Azure and AI division. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. Bamboo previously offered voice-based apps for Amazon’s Alexa devices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta President Nick Clegg, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the White House. Will they share the wealth? There’s a lot of money in AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2022

A Google alum, Arden was previously head of consumer experiences and products at Lyft. Brain circuitry expert Rui Costa took over from founding Allen Institute CEO Allan Jones as CEO and president of the nonprofit research organization. Emily Chavez is joining Seattle HR consultancy Reverb as head of leadership development.

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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. 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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Ada Developers Academy Photo). — Ada Developers Academy appointed Danielle Ishem as VP of equity and policy. Ada, a Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp dedicated to diversifying the tech industry, was founded in 2013 and became an independent nonprofit last year. billion valuation in October.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The International Digital Accountability Council (IDAC), a nonprofit consumer privacy watchdog, said its research found that the Android version of the app was sharing data with three Chinese analytics firms, including unique device identifiers which could help them follow users’ activities across other apps and websites.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2023

(TeachAI Image) Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI , a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence. Code.org has been backed by nearly $60 million in funding from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

And during his first year, Sanath and Ramya tried so hard to help their son grow and develop like a typical child. I started Googling about this disease and I couldn’t even spell it at that point. I started Googling about this gene. He’s adorable. But he just couldn’t do the things that a normal baby could.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

How it works: WA Notify uses a system developed by Apple and Google that maintains anonymity. ” WA Notify uses a system developed collaboratively by Apple and Google, now widely used for exposure notification tools worldwide. Washington Department of Health Image). “The pandemic is not over.”

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

That tool, if used with housing ads, could violate the Fair Housing Act, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook for that violation in March 2019. Half will be invested in black-owned small businesses, black creators, and nonprofits working with black communities, Sandberg said in her blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

American Association of Blacks in Energy The American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) is dedicated to ensuring African Americans and other minorities have input and a voice in the discussion and development of energy policies, regulations, R&D technologies, and environmental issues.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Tony Bacos. Frontdoor Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We The nonprofit brought her onboard with a mandate to build a roadmap to drive innovation and modernize the organization’s IT footprint. We source a lot of food.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Companies such as Amazon, Infosys, IBM, Wipro, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, Capgemini, Uber, Dell, Google, and Salesforce all have offices in Tampa. Other tech companies that have opened offices in Portland include Airbnb, Google, IBM, Amazon, Logitech, Apple, Nvidia, Oracle, and Salesforce among others.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This month, nearly 60 business and nonprofit leaders from the Northwest — such as Microsoft, Boeing, Expedia, Nintendo, Zillow, Vulcan, PATH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — signed on to a new coalition called Washington Employers for Racial Equity. million award from Google.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

” Kalivas is a remote worker himself, a Google Cloud sales executive who revived the LaunchPad organization as part of the tech giant’s 20% initiative. Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. . “You have so many people working from home who don’t want to feel isolated.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

million to purchase a brand new 6-acre, 400,000 square-foot complex from REI at the new Spring District development in Bellevue, Wash., Site developer Wright Runstad & Company and Shorenstein Properties purchased an undeveloped 2-acre portion of REI’s property for $22.4 The social media giant paid $367.6 just east of Seattle.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Dyce discovered Off Their Plate, a nonprofit that uses donations to pay restaurants to prepare meals, while browsing Instagram. Using Google Docs to organize operations, in her first week she coordinated delivery of 300 meals to healthcare providers. Serving up smarter logistics. ”

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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. .” The latest developments in AI are one example of that.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Image: Google Nest. Google has announced several new features for its Nest thermostats centered around helping the smart home become a bigger partner in the battle against climate change. Nest Renew is the “First program of its kind,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and it is entirely opt-in. Image: Google.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2023

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%). From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Soma” Somasegar has been around the tech industry for 34 years, including nearly three decades at Microsoft, where he was head of the tech giant’s Developer Division. .” Madrona Venture Group managing director S. “Soma” Somasegar. ” Sawant linked this latest fight to the ongoing layoffs in the tech sector. ”

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away , for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model , Llama 2. Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The AI debate splitting the tech world, explained.

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