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The global AI group continues the launch of its Boulder chapter with a second round of discussions about the changing workplace and the importance of lifelong learning. Coming up on Friday, April 3: "Learning How to Learn in the Age of AI."
Fourteen wins, a home playoff date, and a quarterback who doesn’t blink are reason enough for Broncos fans to celebrate. The twist is just how much AI - chips, tracking data, and win-probability math - is now a part of every play.
Yann LeCun is leaving Meta and doubling down on "world models." Meanwhile, a Ph.D. student and an associate professor at CU Denver are trying to make today's language models more inventive without letting them drift into nonsense.
The Colorado Springs-based holiday tradition - arising out of a misprinted phone number for Santa in 1955 - has been updated with a web-based calling option and a small set of ChatGPT-powered creative tools from OpenAI.
State leaders say they'll keep refining their first-in-the-nation AI anti-discrimination law even after the president's EO threatened lawsuits and broadband funding. Some experts say the order's legal footing could be shaky, setting up a two-track showdown: politics now and litigation later.
From a snowy roadside north of Boulder, a weathered ranch gate turns into a frame for the city’s AI boom - and a reminder to bring our humanity with us into all that comes next.
Investment in AI is driving growth, even as hiring and affordability falter. From Wall Street to the Front Range, optimism and unease are running side by side.
At Silicon Flatirons, Brad Feld reminds Colorado’s next generation of founders that giving first isn’t altruism - it’s how communities, including AI startups, build lasting momentum.
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s fireside chat was a playbook for AI with timeless lessons for everyone: ethics first, embed empathy and trust, and be the hope.
Compelling conversations ensued.
With 35 new companies and record efficiency, Colorado’s flagship university is celebrating its robust pipeline of investable innovation.
For this Denver entrepreneur, vibe coding is the new literacy, transforming prompts into opportunity, capital, and a seat at the table.
Colorado’s pioneering AI law is now on hold until next June. State representative Titone explains how the session slipped away and why she’s not giving up.
Earlier this week, I (finally) made it to a meeting of the Fort Collins chapter of the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG). As I was listening to two truly compelling presentations on AI and security – a bit more about them can be found here – I came face to face
Group founder Andres Sepulveda Morales: "My 'north star' for FoCo AI is dead simple: Start conversations around different aspects of AI, avoid being cliquey, and create a genuinely welcoming environment."
Lee Frankel-Goldwater and Eric Raanan Fischman's exploration of what can happen when two poets collaborate with a chatbot is a striking entry in the field of cyborg poetics.
New, fully online program offers flexible, performance-based admission and global reach, with its first MS-AI cohort starting this month.
Gov. Polis has called a special session - beginning on August 21 - to amend or delay the state AI law in response to the federal threat.
"The whole philosophy of the Flood Lab at CU Boulder is to mitigate flood loss and help prepare people to combat those flood risks that happen every year, everywhere in the world."
As artificial intelligence enters the medical and mental health fields, voices from CU Boulder and Colorado Anschutz urge careful design, fairness, and empathy.
Reflections on artificial intelligence and my entry in RMAIIG's "AI and the Creative Arts" showcase.
The multi-sport athlete and CEO of the X Games is now also the executive chairman of a Boulder-based AI startup focused on bringing consistency and fairness to sports officiating and judging.
I believe we need to push beyond the surface-level discussions about efficiency and misinformation to examine what's really at stake: Our capacity for independent thought, creative expression, and authentic human development.
Hugging Face's LeRobot hackathon will involve 100 cities globally. Join the one taking place in the Mile High City so you can add "built a working AI robot" to your resume.
What other city of 100,000 has such strong entrepreneurial DNA coursing through it that it can support a five-day startup week featuring 30 events a day?
“Absolutely everyone is encouraged to submit something they’ve created, whether it’s with the help of AI, about AI, or some combination of the two.”
And yet, and yet...it is much better than last year’s bill – and it should be passed now and implemented in 2026, not delayed again until 2027.
A new program addresses the disruption that generative AI is unleashing on higher education by providing a forum for faculty to share their experiences and ideas, learn from each other, and receive support to develop AI initiatives.
New collaboration seeks to drive "curated collisions" around ideas and entrepreneurship, innovation and experience, energy and expertise.
Copyright protection does not extend to general ideas or artistic styles. That means that the visual style of Studio Ghibli isn’t protected, and neither is the tone or mood of Wes Anderson, or the musical style of Grandmaster Flash.
Not only is the professor energized by his visits to the senior living center, but the residents are, too.
The AI Club at CU Boulder wins the Colorado AI News "Pic of the Week" for this striking photo of its Executive Board posed in front of Boulder's snow-dappled foothills and iconic Flatirons. Founded last fall, the AI Club's current leadership team has taken
The rapid rise of AI agents has sparked urgent legal and policy debates distinct from broader AI regulation. At the latest Silicon Flatirons event at the University of Colorado Law School, the Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Law Conference on March 7, experts gathered to tackle issues related to one
"I've long believed that if you want something, you should create it for other people, and then you'll have it, too."
Closely connected to the attention Fort Collins is receiving for its upcoming, four-day Founded in FoCo conference - and which for the first time, features an AI track - the AI meetup scene in the city is also bubbling over. Three of the original founders of the NoCo AI Group
AI enthusiasts in Fort Collins want you to know one thing: The AI scene in Colorado is not restricted to Boulder and Denver. And there would appear to be enough AI-related discussions going on in FoCo in the days, weeks, and months ahead to lead to a noticeable increase in
On February 20, the Colorado Technology Association hosted the 2025 Tech Summit + APEX Awards at the Grand Hyatt in Denver. In a demonstration of AI's current dominance of the tech industry, Ibotta founder and CEO Bryan Leach accepted the award for Company of the Year, while Jon Nordmark,
Who is ultimately responsible for ensuring the ethical use of AI? This is a question graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder were asked to grapple with during the school’s annual Interdisciplinary Ethics Tech Competition earlier this month. All three of us on my team – two law students,
The founder of Technical Integrity has long been building talented teams by pairing deep technical acumen with a genuine focus on cultural alignment.
The mind behind "AI by Hand" says the focus of this technical presentation on Tuesday is not the tool’s capabilities, but what’s behind it.
Boulder SEO Marketing wants you to ride the AI wave instead of getting swamped by it. BSM is offering a free, 60-minute webinar on Jan. 30th focused on AI and SEO, featuring "Micro-SEO" and introducing the AI-driven BSM Copilot.
“We're creating the connective tissue between AI hardware and applications – think ‘the platform that lets enterprises use AI without moving their sensitive data around.’”
Generative AI helps to level the playing field, and those who know how to use it will succeed in the new world that’s rapidly unfolding.
Liza Adams is not just a doer; she is a dynamo. In fact, when asked if she ever sleeps, she just laughed and replied that she gets asked that a lot. Liza is our latest Colorado AI VIP because – just like the very best athletes – she can see the whole
AI for Good: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Aimee Says is a critical response to the global crisis
Newsom's veto of 'aggressive' approach to AI regulation sends CA legislators back to the drawing board.
Boulder’s Chris Raulf offers a free webinar this week and a half-day deep dive later this month into Google’s AI-driven changes to the search results pages.
From AI beginners to AI experts, all are invited to come learn from others, share what they know, or both.
Summit's focus is on using AI for good; Selected startups working on solving social problems with AI will be featured in showcase
Denver and Boulder are truly 'Cities of Success' continuing to rise on the national AI radar
The AI Tinkerers Denver-Boulder group is set to host its first Multimodal Innovation Hackathon, bringing together AI developers and enthusiasts for a weekend of collaboration and innovation. The event, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, August 3-4, will take place at Code Talent’s offices in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood. Not
SIGGRAPH, which bills itself as the “Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques,” is back in Colorado starting on Sunday, July 28 for a five-day extravaganza at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The conference is promising a rare, joint public appearance on Monday, July 29 of
Earlier this month, Elevate Quantum, a Colorado-based consortium of tech companies and universities, successfully won a $41 million grant from the federal government to boost the state’s already strong presence in the quickly expanding field of quantum computing. Wait, what is quantum? McKinsey describes quantum computing as “a new
Earlier this year, Colorado state legislators passed a landmark artificial intelligence bill, SB 205 (Consumer Protections for Interactions with Artificial Intelligence). And although the term “landmark” is often overused, it’s certainly appropriate in this case. As many observers have indicated, the Colorado AI Act is the country’s first
There must be something in the water in Boulder. How could there not be, when the city of just 105,000 keeps pumping out successful entrepreneurs? In fact, as long as a decade ago, Inc. Magazine named Boulder “America’s Startup Capital,” calling it the most entrepreneurial city in the
Colorado AI News: Welcome, Bill, and congrats on being our first Colorado AI VIP! Bill Quinn: Thanks, Phil. It’s an honor. CoAi: Well deserved! In fact, you’re the perfect person for our inaugural VIP. Your experience innovating at tech startups back in the day gives you valuable perspective
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