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“I’m the 12th man … I want to represent that”: Longtime Seattle tech entrepreneur Sunny Gupta, best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Apptio, has been a diehard Seahawks fan for almost 20 years. Now he’s a co-owner of the team, joining a newly revealed group of investors who purchased the Hawks alongside the family of Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla. Gupta told GeekWire it’s a “dream come true” and an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.
Startup raises $25M to combat AI hallucinations: Headquartered in a small town near Portland, Resect AI emerged from stealth this week. Its technology looks deep inside large language models in real time to observe, detect, interpret, and modify model behavior before a hallucination can occur.
UW’s first robotics grad programs: The University of Washington is launching a Master of Science in Robotics and a professional certificate this fall, with 35 seats and industry backing from Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Boeing. More than 30 people signed up for an information session before applications even opened, a sign of the interest in the field and the demand for robotics talent.
A hamburger photographed by SP Studio, left, and then tweaked in Pallat to add the tomatoes. (Pallat Images)
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Startup Spotlight: Scott Pitts started his career as a food photographer shooting four-by-five film. Then he transitioned to digital and video, using Photoshop along the way as an image-tweaking tool. His new startup Pallat is the next progression. The platform, trained on a 25-year archive of stylistic food images, is designed to help clients avoid costly reshoots for a misplaced tomato or wrong-colored plate.
Tech Moves: Microsoft is shuffling leadership, naming Aneesh Raman chief economic opportunity officer and promoting Jenny Lay-Flurrie to CVP of the Trusted Technology Group. Zillow has a new policy lead while Oracle, Hiya and DAT Freight & Analytics see departures. Read more about these and other personnel changes.
What kids tell chatbots, but not you: Teenagers are taking questions about their health, their moods and their friendships to chatbots, and most of them aren’t telling any adult they’re doing it. For this back-to-school AI column, Oren Etzioni went through the research on how kids actually use AI — what’s ordinary, what isn’t, and why telling them to quit doesn’t work for the kids who rely on it the most.
Going nuclear for the next giant leap: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stopped by Rocketdyne’s Redmond, Wash., facility on Thursday as part of his Pacific Northwest “Inspiration Tour,” rallying workers and framing nuclear-powered spacecraft as vital to expanding America’s footprint in deep space.
Gotta go fast to Pioneer Square: Sega is celebrating 35 years of its iconic blue speedster this Labor Day weekend with 35 Years of Speed: The Sonic Art Exhibit, a free pop-up gallery running through Sunday at Seattle’s 210 Gallery. The exhibition showcases over 50 commissioned pieces alongside archival concept sketches, international box art, and fan-created paintings and sculpture.
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