Technology & AI
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GeekWire Awards: From AI safety to robotic ultrasounds, meet the annual winners
Key players who won the 2026 GeekWire Awards are, clockwise from top left: Grin Lord, empathic CEO; Edward Wu, Dropzone…
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Google is now targeting bad ads over bad actors
Google said Thursday it has blocked a record 8.3 billion ads worldwide by 2025 — up from 5.1 billion a…
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Canva’s AI assistant can now call a variety of tools to create designs for you
The main promise of new AI platforms is that you can describe your task to an AI assistant, let it…
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UCSD and AI Research Together Introduce Parcae: A Stable Architecture for Large-Scale Language Models That Achieves the Quality of a Converter Twice the Size
The basic recipe for building better language models hasn’t changed much since the Chinchilla era: use more FLOPs, add more…
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DeepL, known for translating text, now wants to translate your voice
DeepL, a translation company best known for its text tools, released a speech-to-speech translation system today that covers use cases…
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How to Build a Universal Long-Term Memory Framework for AI Agents Using Mem0 and OpenAI
In this tutorial, we build a long-term memory layer for AI users to use Mem0OpenAI models, and ChromaDB. We are…
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Snap is cutting 95 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs, pushing for AI operations
A slide from Snap’s investor update highlights AI-driven benefits, saying more than 65% of new code is generated by AI.…
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Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO
Nuclear powerhouse IX-energy began a roadshow for investors on Wednesday as it works toward its IPO, pricing it at between…
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Big checks, few bets: Seattle startup count drops to lowest level since 2020
Seattle’s quarterly VC activity from 2016 to Q1 2026, showing capital invested and deal count. The number of deals fell…
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The fall of Monarch Tractor ends with the acquisition of Caterpillar
Monarch Tractor Assets was acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to transition into a software services business, according to…
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