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Seattle tech leaders launch nonprofit to push for greater transparency in AI training data

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A new nonprofit, the Seattle-based Transparency Coalition , is aiming to address this issue. They decided to found the Transparency Coalition as a nonprofit organization to address these problems through policy advocacy and public education. One effect would be to narrow the scope of AI applications to address specific problems.

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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

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Sightline Institute Photo used under Creative Commons License ) As the Seattle area’s housing crisis continues, Housing Connector is trying to level the playing field for the region’s most vulnerable renters. The Seattle-based group is backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp through his Camp.org nonprofit foundation.

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New platform from nonprofit Carina offers quick searches for in-home childcare openings

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Providers must be union-represented and licensed by regulatory agencies to get a spot on the platform. Pivotal Labs, working through its Pivotal Act program that benefits nonprofits, provided two months of free engineering for the project. Approximately 40,000 families have used the site.

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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets

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It also was set up as a nonprofit that operated like a biotech company, taking discoveries through early-stage research to manufacturing and clinical trials. The institute now focuses on a few core technologies that it can license at earlier stages to biopharma companies. The project is funded by the U.S.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

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based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on women and minority founders. The company aims to scale through a digital course and by licensing its intellectual property, Pham said. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Open up your networks. Reetu Gupta.

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Tech Moves: Rad Power Bikes co-founder resigns; WRF CEO Ron Howell to retire; and more

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The organization supports life science and technology through grants, commercialization, and licensing technologies from universities and other nonprofit research institutions. University of Washington, for example, has earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue through WRF. George “Skip” Battle.

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Madrona leads $2.6M round for OthersideAI, a startup using GPT-3 tech to write automated emails

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million seed round led by Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. OpenAI should be renamed ClosedAI’: Reaction to Microsoft’s exclusive license of OpenAI’s GPT-3. Founded just months ago by a trio of young entrepreneurs, OthersideAI announced a $2.6 “Safety is obviously our top priority,” Kuperberg said.

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