From its Skagit County site and elsewhere, Bellevue-based PACCAR is among companies leading the charge in creating autonomous trucking. Successes could lead to a major shake-up in the freight industry. Unions worry about the loss of trucking jobs.
In Mount Vernon, Paccar develops automated trucks that could revolutionize long-haul industry
A tale of two AI cities: The Seattle connection to Israel's surveillance network
Seattle and Israel’s AI ecosystem have long had close ties, from Microsoft's and Amazon’s acquisitions of Israeli startups to ongoing academic collaborations. Those ties include a global surveillance network that has also raised concerns among human rights experts. WATCH
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Training facial recognition on some new furry friends: Bears
In their spare time, two software developers aided conservationists in developing artificial intelligence to help identify individual brown bears around British Columbia's Knight Inlet.
Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators, so she designed and built her own AI robots
Artist Sougwen Chung has carved out a niche in the expanding world of AI art. She collaborates with robots in her performance-based artworks. She and...
Walmart abandons shelf-scanning robots, lets humans do work
Walmart has ended its relationship with startup Bossa Nova Robotics, which builds roving robots equipped with cameras for identifying out-of-stock and misplaced products.
Activists turn facial recognition tools against police
In Portland and elsewhere, activists are using facial recognition technology to identify police officers in situations where they may not identify themselves to the public.
IBM, seeing its future in the cloud, breaks off IT unit
The split-up strategy reflects how decisively computing has shifted to the cloud.
Portland approves strictest ban on facial recognition technology in the U.S.
The new Portland facial-recognition ban prohibits businesses from collecting, using or storing people’s facial or biometric information gathered in spaces open to the public, such...
Bellevue uses AI technology to identify problem intersections and make them safer
A high-tech analysis of 40 intersections in Bellevue found that near misses in which crashes nearly occur are a reliable predictor of where future crashes...
TikTok’s videos could fuel Microsoft’s artificial-intelligence ambitions
TikTok has no shortage of data in the form of videos, billions of which are uploaded to the service every year. Microsoft can feed all...
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