In Bellevue, Wash., AI Cuts Permitting Inquiries by 30 Percent

As AI shifts from output-generating large language models (LLMs) to armies of agents taking actions on their own, there is a growing threat that failures could affect system reliability. Temporal, a Bellevue, WA firm founded in 2019, hopes to solve that problem by stabilizing AI and long-running computing processes through “durable execution,” a technology that reliably resurrects failed computing processes on other hosts. If a machine crashes in the middle of agentic AI transactions, the company resurrects the function on a different host so it can continue exactly where it left off. Temporal says its durable execution process comes with a 100% durability guarantee. The company was solving these kinds of distributed-systems problems long before the generative AI (genAI) rush, and today it powers infrastructure from Coinbase to Airbnb to OpenAI. For IT decision-makers, Temporal’s offerings promise to bring reliability to AI operations — especially in regulated industries. Co-founder Sa

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Golden Analytics, the AI-native analytics platform built to make everyone extraordinary with data, has announced a $14 million seed extension led by Insight Partners, bringing total seed funding to $21 million. The round follows significant early demand for the Bellevue-based company since its April launch from stealth, backed by NEA and Madrona, […]

Two years after first revealing its plans for Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri that never fully materialized, at WWDC Apple just revealed a new set of AI features and a smarter, more personalized Siri. Apple calls Siri AI an "entirely new version of Siri," and says it's both more conversational and more capable than the previous version of the smart assistant. In conversations, it has a more expressive voice that can be customized by pace, expressivity, and accent. Siri AI will be accessible systemwide, capable of reading what's on-screen and interacting with your apps. But Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi said it w … Read the full story at The Verge.

As cities and counties turn to AI to ease permitting, one company is offering a new, free program through which officials can learn about the technology's potential to solve agency-specific problems.