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How power is blazing a trail for America’s space effort — and for nuclear startups

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That’s one of the questions under consideration at a State of the Space Industrial Base workshop that’s being conducted this week at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The topics being addressed at this week’s workshop play to two of the Pacific Northwest’s space industry strengths.

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AWS invests $100 million in new Generative AI Innovation Center

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday said that it was investing $100 million to start a new program, dubbed the Generative AI Innovation Center, in an effort to help enterprises accelerate the development of generative AI- based applications. Enterprises will also get added support from the AWS Partner Network.

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Amazon looks to boost generative AI projects with new $100M cloud initiative

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Amazon Web Services say a new initiative will connect internal experts with customers and partners to accelerate generative AI applications. The new “center” is not a physical location, but will include no-cost workshops and training, according to the company.

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Defense Innovation Unit explores Pacific Northwest’s national security tech frontier

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Michael Madsen, the Defense Innovation Unit’s acting director, talks at a Seattle workshop. On the space front, there’s Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite effort, Microsoft and its partnership with SpaceX for Azure cloud services, Xplore, BlackSky , New Frontier Aerospace and Tethers Unlimited. .

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Amazon CEO calls attacks on civilians in Israel ‘shocking,’ says company will support relief efforts

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The Amazon Web Services space in Tel Aviv called Floor28 opened in 2018 as an education hub for events and workshops. According to the Amazon jobs page for Israel , Seattle-based Amazon opened its first office in Tel Aviv in 2014, and has continued to grow and invest in its Israeli client base.

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Can AI level the playing field? GeekWire Podcast with Nancy Wang of Advancing Women in Tech

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Startup investor Nancy Wang sees the potential for generative artificial intelligence to change the balance of power in fields such as cybersecurity, which is one of her areas of focus, leveraging her background as a former Amazon Web Services general manager and Google lead product manager. Collaborating with the U.S.

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Tech policy leaders explore new frontiers for supporting (and regulating) AI at forum

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. “We tend to use the phrase ‘It’s Day One’ in the age of internet,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of database, analytics and machine learning at Amazon Web Services. “But in this phase, I would say it’s Day One, we just woke up and we haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet.”