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

GeekWire

Microsoft is partnering with OpenAI and competing against tech giants including Amazon and Google in the race to capitalize on the growing wave of generative AI technologies in software and online services. The company declined to disclose the expected size of the grants or the amount of its investment in the programs.

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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

GeekWire

The homepage for the City of Seattle’s CiviForm website, a tool that makes it faster and easier for residents to apply to city-related benefit and discount programs. The tool works by easing some of the time, computer literacy and language barriers that can create roadblocks for residents seeking to access benefit programs.

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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

(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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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

CIO Business Intelligence

“It seemed too good to be true — free classes for six months, a paid internship, partnerships with great companies in my area, high graduation and employment rates, and lastly, an emphasis on social justice,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. Mariya Burrows.

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

Dataconomy

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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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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Meta and Google are blocking links to news in Canada. The US might be next.

Vox

A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. A considerably smaller Canadian publication, the Tyee, reported on Wednesday that its social media manager, Sarah Krichel, was similarly blocked from viewing its Instagram account which, considering her job title, might be a bit of an issue.

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