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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

For chemists, finding just the right molecule for a particular application can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes.

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Scientists turn to the cloud to streamline supercomputer calculations for chemistry

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Their effort to make supercomputer-scale resources more widely available through cloud computing could aid in the search for methods to break down toxic “forever chemicals” that are currently hard to get rid of. The chemical, also known as PFOA, was banned worldwide in 2019 but still persists in the environment.

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Inspired by her family’s business in India, Seattle founder leads AI startup that helps manufacturers

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Loopr Photo) Loopr’s AI-powered edge applications have a variety of use cases ranging from defect scanning, maintenance prediction and inventory management. The startup offers a software platform that captures this process data, generates analytics, and oversees and improves application performance.

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Mars Society gains foothold in AI, robotics and biotechnology to clear a path to space

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NASA Photo / Dominic Hart) The Mars Society says it’s making progress on launching a startup incubator in the Seattle area, with artificial intelligence and biotech as its first targets. NASA engineer Christine Gregg inspects an experimental construction robot. Its long-term goal?

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We don’t need AI rolling pins: Food tech experts on the risks and opportunities for AI in the kitchen

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(Middleby Photo / Mark Janoff) Scott Heimendinger , a culinary entrepreneur who helped lead Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine project, has a request for today’s kitchen innovators: please, please don’t create a rolling pin powered with ChatGPT, artificial intelligence or other hot tech du jour.

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The UW’s Institute for Protein Design keeps boosting startups, fueling AI-powered science

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New studies, companies and spinouts are emerging at a rapid clip from the research hub, propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Designing protein crystals , setting the stage for additional development that could lead to new optical tools, technlogies for chemical separation and other uses. Published Oct.

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Founders with unique backgrounds unite over climate concerns and launch new venture fund

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“The same core technology actually becomes applicable across a bunch of different sectors in a bunch of different applications,” said co-founder Nate Salpeter. The company’s first success was identifying a unique enzyme that treats so-called “forever chemical” pollutants named PFAS.

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