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Is Michigan Finally Cleaning Up Environmental Pollution?
Michigan Environmental Cleanup Uses New Technology, Looking for Partners For years I heard at Cronicle that Muskegon and other Michigan…
Another Rushed AI Demo Error
Balancing Innovation and Caution: The Rush of AI to Market and the Future of Personal Technology With the advent of artificial intelligence…
OpenAI Author Lawsuit Sets Tone for AI Copyright Law
Author Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sets The Tone for AI Copyright Law A class action lawsuit against OpenAI has gained attention as a group of…
Making Gen AI Sustainable
Gen AI Has a Sustainability Problem "GenAI," or generative artificial intelligence, has a sustainability problem. While businesses are using…
X (Twitter) Adopts New Business Model
X, Formerly Twitter, Adopts New Subscription Model X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has announced plans (Bloomberg) to test three…
Goodhood Auto Interview with CEO Prashant Salla
Turning Passion into Convenience: The Story of Goodhood & Prashant Salla In today's fast-paced world, convenience is king. The demands on…
Proceptual Introduces HR Compliance Tool
HR Software for AI and Automation Compliance Chicago AI compliance startup Proceptual has just announced the launch of its tech-enabled…
P33 Announces New Board Members
P33 Hires Some Familiar Faces to New Board Chicago startup incubator and tech networking hub P33 has just announced new board members, some…
Gradient Valley Launches AI Tool for Education
Gradient Valley Launches First of Its Kind AI Mobile App To Teach Data Science Ann Arbor-based software company Gradient Valley has just…
Room 35 Will Mentor Contractors Incubator Style
Room35 Introduces Tech Incubator Model to Construction Room35 is a new business incubator in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that co-founders Joshua…
ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?
ChatGPT-4 exam results compared to previous model. ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of…
Immuta Inc. Gains Silicon Valley Investor, Valued at $1 billion
Immuta Inc., a newly minted unicorn tech startup in the Drive Capital LLC and Ohio Innovation Fund portfolios, has added a new publicly…
Genomics AI startup Genomenon rapidly expands genomics data userbase, raises $20 million
Genomenon leadership Steve Schwartz, Mike Klein, Mark Kiel, and Candace Chapman at the startup's headquarters in Ann Arbor. Genomenon, Ann…
Investors Pour $2.8 Billion into Fastest Growing Global Hub Toronto
The world's fastest growing tech hub is now Toronto. The Waterloo Corridor around Toronto has finally achieved its goal of creating a tech…
Ann Arbor's Censys Raises $35 Million in Series B, Appoints CEO
Ann Arbor cybersecurity startup Censys has just raised $35 million in a Series B round led by Intel Capital. Brad Brooks was appointed CEO…
Ann Arbor Startup Salud Brings Wedding Planners As a Subscription Online
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Chicago's Latest of Five 2021 Tech Unicorns: G2 Software Marketplace
Chicago has been minting unicorn companies, or startups valued at over $1 billion, at a brisk rate in 2021. New unicorn G2 is the fifth of…
Ann Arbor Startup PassiveBolt Launches AI-Enhanced Keyless Entry for Home
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
10 Ann Arbor Startups To Watch in 2021 (pt 2)
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Silicon Valley VC Funding Expected To Drop Below 20% of Deals in 2021, + Other Tech News Highlights
Many notable startups were founded in the Midwest, including Ann Arbor's May Mobility and Rivian mobility tech startups. Many startups need…
This Is Not a Post About Flying Taxis... Yet
Cars are gonna fly any day now, or so the story goes according to the non-transportation media. It's a nice thought, and it will be here…
Ann Arbor's Censys Hires Security Industry Evangelist Derek Abdine as CTO
Cybersecurity startup Censys, which offers visibility and risk assessment of businesses' constantly evolving security vulnerabilities…
Universal Robots' Vision for Collaborative Automation
Robots Collaborating With Humans, Instead of Replacing Them Automation. It's an unavoidable job stealer, right? Well, maybe sometimes, but…
How Tech Startups Are Succeeding During COVID-19
Research labs have been shut down. Small businesses are searching for funding. But it's not all bad news in the emerging tech hubs of the…
ProQuest Offers COVID-19 & SARS/MERS Virus Research Free To Libraries & Academic Research Customers
ProQuest Creates New COVID-19 & SARS/MERS Virus Research Database Free To Library Customers Ann Arbor-based academic research database…
Michigan Tech Events Move Online
Our new Michigan online tech events page is live and being updated on a rolling basis as many tech communities in Ann Arbor-Detroit and the…
The Traverse City Tech Scene's Growth, According to 20 Fathoms' New Head Lauren Bigelow
20Fathoms in downtown Traverse City. 20 Fathoms and the Growing Traverse City Tech Scene Traverse City, Michigan, tech incubator 20Fathoms…
Michigan Tech Events, March 2020
UPDATE 3/12/20: Due to widespread event cancellations related to the spread of COVID-19 virus, please check with organizers to see if groups…
MAXAR Builds Next-Generation Technology For Space Infrastructure To Earth Intelligence To Self-Driving Cars
Little known fact: Ypsilanti, Michigan, has been home to a satellite and remote sensing company now called MAXAR since 1947. Focused on…
re:purpose Connects The High-Growth Tech Ecosystem in Detroit
re:purpose, Detroit's Tech Startup Recruiting Firm Did you ever wonder how candidates land jobs at hot tech companies like Duo out of Ann…
Stock Exchange Meets Commercial Real Estate with ProjectFRED
Heather Martel is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ProjectFRED, a new fintech, blockchain-powered commercial real estate startup…
MTEC SmartZone Drives Unique High-Tech Business in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The world requires innovation—now more than ever. Science. Technology. Engineering. Math. Along the wild shores of Lake Superior…
Alexa, You're Fired: Why Conversational AI Startup Clinc Is Bulldozing The Competition
A Clinc meeting in progress we passed through on our tour of the Cahoots co-working space a few months ago shortly after Cronicle's launch…
Censys Announces New Enterprise Platform To Curate Mass Search Data
The Censys Enterprise dashboard, where users can view cloud providers, certificates, hosts, and types of software their companies are…
Office Evolution Experiences Early Co-Working Success in Ann Arbor
There are a number of successful co-working locations in Ann Arbor, so what makes yet another one special? David Whitinger of Office…
Award-Winning Finji Games Launches Overland Apocalyptic Road Trip Game
Sometimes you hear a Michigan "we had to leave because of the economy story" and it makes you happy, because success lay elsewhere--and then…
Pendaran Offers Immersive Experience-Based Systems Thinking Training Program
You enter a classroom. Instead of desks, a virtual workplace is laid out in front of you, including assembly lines, and banks of screens…
Heart Shaped Games' We Are The Caretakers Is an Afrofuturist SciFi Squad Mgmt Game
How's your summer going? The students are gone, Art Fair traffic isn't in Ann Arbor yet, and it's time for more video gaming fun. Heart…
Workantile Co-Working Space Brings Together A Community of Remote Workers in Ann Arbor
Sarah Zettel sits on a couch up front of her desk at Workantile, where she greets people coming in the door. On Main Street in Ann Arbor…
Google Announces Expansion to Ann Arbor and Detroit Offices
Google CFO Ruth Porat pictured right at the Taylor Community Library in Detroit. Courtesy photo. Senior Vice President and CFO of Google and…
KLA-Tencor Celebrates Opening of $70M Headquarters in Ann Arbor
KLA's John Mclaughlin announces a corporate expansion during Tech Talk 2019 before explaining how the company handles extremely high…
a2Tech360 Behind the Scenes 2029: What The Future Holds
Ravi Pendse PhD, VP for IT and CIO at the University of Michigan, kicked off 2029: What The Future Holds with a keynote all about emerging…
Ann Arbor-based Clinc AI Announces $52 million Series B
A Clinc team tackles a quick meeting in their second-floor office at Cahoots in downtown Ann Arbor the week before the announcement of a $5…
Welcome to Cahoots, The New Front Door of Ann Arbor Tech
When Alison Todak, the managing director of the new Cahoots coworking space for tech workers in downtown Ann Arbor, offered us a tour…
Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software
The Kinetica Labs MotionCapture app allows the user to take a video with a smartphone for upload to analyze ergonomic risk of a worker…
Ann Arbor Tech Events: May 2019
The First National Building on Main and Washington, at the heart of what many people don't realize is downtown tech city, Michigan. Up the…
Welcome to Cronicle Press: Ann Arbor Tech News
You live in Ann Arbor or maybe you just work here. From the chatter on the street or in the restaurants, you know thousands of people here…