Phil Nugent

Phil Nugent is the founder and editor-in-chief of Colorado AI News. A passionate advocate for independent, quality journalism and Colorado's vibrant entrepreneurial community, he brings to the role his background as a strategic marketer, meticulous writer, exacting editor, enthusiastic team-builder, compulsive storyteller, inveterate reader, alert trend-spotter, amateur futurist, AI enthusiast, and non-practicing attorney.

Phil serves on the Executive Committee of the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group. He has an MBA from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, a JD from William & Mary Law School, and a BA from the University of Virginia.

AI Words of Wisdom

AI Quote of the Week: Todd Keane: "We make things that we hope will be bigger than us..."

“We make things that we hope will be bigger than us, and then we’re desolate when that’s what they become.” - Todd Keane, tech visionary and billionaire entrepreneur in Playground, the latest work by Richard Powers. Playground: A Novel, written by the prolific and Pulitzer-prize-winning Powers, tells a

Phil Nugent

30 Mar 25 1 min read

Pic of the Week

Pic of the Week: CU Boulder professor Bobby Hodgkinson brings AI awareness to the senior class

Not only is the professor energized by his visits to the senior living center, but the residents are, too.

Phil Nugent

22 Mar 25 2 min read

Pic of the Week

Pic of the Week: The AI Club at CU Boulder

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

Phil Nugent

15 Mar 25 1 min read

AI Quote of the Week

AI Quote of the Week: Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers in Elon Musk v. OpenAI court order

"Having carefully considered the papers submitted and the pleadings in this action, including oral argument, and for the reasons set forth below, the Court hereby FINDS that plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden of proof for the extraordinary relief requested and DENIES the motion. That said, the Court

Phil Nugent

08 Mar 25 2 min read

AI Words of Wisdom

AI Words of Wisdom: Brad Feld: "Repeat after me..."

"Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'" – Brad Feld Brad Feld is a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur, investor, and writer. As a student at MIT in 1987, he founded Feld Technologies, a software development firm. Six years later, in 1993, he sold

Phil Nugent

01 Mar 25 1 min read

Pic of the Week

Pic of the Week: Dave Jilk reads from "Epoch" at the Boulder Book Store

Last summer, Boulder technologist and writer Dave Jilk published Epoch, which he describes as a poetic psy-phi saga – a bit of wordplay that underscores the psychological and philosophical challenges addressed in this sci-fi odyssey of the world's first fully sentient AI being. Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga is

Phil Nugent

19 Feb 25 1 min read

The Big Picture

Happy Valentine's Day? Love in the Age of AI means there's a bot for everyone

Here's where we are today: The film “Her” is getting more real all the time, as growing numbers of people truly love and cherish their AI companions. Is that a bad thing?

Phil Nugent

14 Feb 25 3 min read

AI Words of Wisdom

AI Words of Wisdom: In 1957's Desk Set, Katharine Hepburn won't let new tech take her job

"I suppose you think you're going to put all of us out of work, don’t you? You think a machine can do everything we do?" – Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set (1957). The underlying theme of the Cold War-era Hollywood classic Desk Set is surprisingly relevant

Phil Nugent

14 Feb 25 26 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: Responsible AI Engineer/Associate Manager, Accenture, Denver (Hybrid)

Accenture’s Global Responsible AI team is found within its Global Data & AI Practice. AI is becoming more pervasive, more powerful and more accessible. With these new opportunities come increased risks, and the Global Data and AI Practice works with leading organizations to ensure AI is designed, built, and

Phil Nugent

11 Feb 25 3 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: Faculty, CS Dept: AI/ML and Quantum Computing, Colorado School of Mines

The Department of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines has two tenure-track faculty positions set to begin in August. The search is for faculty hires at the rank of Assistant Professor, but exceptional candidates at higher ranks may be considered. While all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply,

Phil Nugent

05 Feb 25 4 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: Technical Chief of Staff to CTO at Kamiwaza

You'll dive deep into code reviews and architecture one moment, then pivot to optimizing the CTO's impact the next. Your scope will be deliberately unbounded because Kamiwaza wants you to continually expand it.

Phil Nugent

15 Jan 25 1 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: AI Research Engineer, Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colorado

Official Job Description: “The coolest jobs on this planet….or any other….are with Lockheed Martin Space.”

Phil Nugent

13 Dec 24 2 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: Senior AI Engineer at VORTO in Denver

Making the supply chain more efficient and environmentally sustainable: An entrepreneurial opportunity to define the frontier of logistics optimization, supply prediction, and demand prediction.

Phil Nugent

02 Dec 24 1 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: Engineering with AI: Assistant/Associate Professor at CSU

This tenure-track position involves mentoring students, conducting research in artificial intelligence, and participating in departmental and university service.

Phil Nugent

23 Nov 24 1 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: AI & GenAI Data Scientist-Manager at PwC in Denver

The AI & GenAI Data Scientist-Manager position at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) involves leading a data science team and focusing on AI and GenAI solutions. The company indicates that the successful candidate will focus on utilizing advanced analytical techniques to extract insights from large datasets and drive data-driven decision-making. The role will

Phil Nugent

09 Nov 24 2 min read

Colorado AI Events

RMAIIG’s AI Robotics Night returns on Wednesday, Nov 6

Human and non-human speakers will be featured, along with a “Pizza and Robots” demo fair. Attendees should note new location and starting time.

Phil Nugent

26 Oct 24 2 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: Senior Generative AI Strategist, AWS, Denver

Are you an experienced and motivated business-oriented technologist who possesses a unique balance of business knowledge, effective interpersonal skills, and some technological depth in analytics/big data, ML and GenAI?

Phil Nugent

24 Oct 24 2 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: First Assistant Attorney General, Technology and Privacy Protection, State of Colorado

Are you an attorney with a passion for public service? Lead Colorado's new Technology and Privacy Protection Unit. Your focus will be on emerging technology, including artificial intelligence and data protection.

Phil Nugent

16 Oct 24 2 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: NVIDIA Senior AI DevTech Engineer, Financial Sector, in Boulder office

NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) is seeking a senior AI developer technology engineer in the financial sector for its office in Boulder. The company asks, "Would you enjoy researching parallel algorithms to accelerate end to end financial AI and data analytics workloads on advanced computer architectures? Is it rewarding to

Phil Nugent

02 Oct 24 1 min read

AI & Marketing

What's up with Google's AI Overviews & SEO? Boulder SEO Marketing has answers

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.

Phil Nugent

30 Sep 24 3 min read

Colorado AI Jobs

Featured AI Job: "Motivated postdoc" to support ML research at Golden's NREL

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden is considered the primary laboratory in the U.S. for the research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy and is home to the National Center for Photovoltaics,

Phil Nugent

25 Sep 24 1 min read

Colorado AI companies & organizations featured in Colorado AI News

The following list includes companies and organizations that are focused on the development or use of AI tools in their products or services, are otherwise closely engaged with or tied into the AI community, are headquartered in Colorado or have an office in the state, and which have been featured

Phil Nugent

16 Sep 24 2 min read

AI & Colorado

‘AI Innovation for Everyone’ embraces the AI-curious at Denver Startup Week on Sept. 18

From AI beginners to AI experts, all are invited to come learn from others, share what they know, or both.

Phil Nugent

16 Sep 24 2 min read

Letter From the Editor

Letter From the Editor: 08/16/24

Phil Nugent

16 Aug 24 1 min read

AI & Colorado

Inaugural 'DenAI Summit' coming to the Mile High City on September 19

Summit's focus is on using AI for good; Selected startups working on solving social problems with AI will be featured in showcase

Phil Nugent

11 Aug 24 1 min read

AI & Colorado

AI in CO: Success of Denver’s AI hackathon highlights the region’s ascent in tech & startup world

Denver and Boulder are truly 'Cities of Success' continuing to rise on the national AI radar

Phil Nugent

11 Aug 24 3 min read

Colorado AI Events

Denver hosts its first Multimodal Innovation Hackathon for AI enthusiasts, August 2-4

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

Phil Nugent

27 Jul 24 3 min read

The Big Picture

The Big Picture: What just happened with OpenAI’s SearchGPT?

With much fanfare, OpenAI announced on Thursday that it had something new up its sleeve: SearchGPT. Which, by its name alone, was guaranteed to make Google break out into a cold sweat. (And Perplexity, too, by the way.) And because it’s already been a tough year for Google, this

Phil Nugent

27 Jul 24 2 min read

AI & Colorado

SIGGRAPH is back in Colorado the week of July 28. Huang & Zuckerberg will be speaking. Act fast.

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

Phil Nugent

27 Jul 24 1 min read

Marketing

AI ‘R’ Us? Toys ‘R’ Us ad, made with generative AI, incites fear & loathing

Have you seen the latest Toys ‘R’ Us ad? If not, you really need to check it out. It’s gotten a lot of attention because it’s the first ad from a major brand that’s been produced almost entirely by generative AI. It was created with Sora, OpenAI’

Phil Nugent

09 Jul 24 2 min read

AI & Colorado

Hurry up and wait: Colorado passes landmark AI Act, but it won't go into effect until 2026

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

Phil Nugent

08 Jul 24 2 min read

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AI Quote of the Week: Todd Keane: "We make things that we hope will be bigger than us..."

Pic of the Week: CU Boulder professor Bobby Hodgkinson brings AI awareness to the senior class

Pic of the Week: The AI Club at CU Boulder

AI Quote of the Week: Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers in Elon Musk v. OpenAI court order

AI Words of Wisdom: Brad Feld: "Repeat after me..."

Pic of the Week: Dave Jilk reads from "Epoch" at the Boulder Book Store

Happy Valentine's Day? Love in the Age of AI means there's a bot for everyone

AI Words of Wisdom: In 1957's Desk Set, Katharine Hepburn won't let new tech take her job

Featured AI Job: Responsible AI Engineer/Associate Manager, Accenture, Denver (Hybrid)

Featured AI Job: Faculty, CS Dept: AI/ML and Quantum Computing, Colorado School of Mines

Featured AI Job: Technical Chief of Staff to CTO at Kamiwaza

Featured AI Job: AI Research Engineer, Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colorado

Featured AI Job: Senior AI Engineer at VORTO in Denver

Featured AI Job: Engineering with AI: Assistant/Associate Professor at CSU

Featured AI Job: AI & GenAI Data Scientist-Manager at PwC in Denver

RMAIIG’s AI Robotics Night returns on Wednesday, Nov 6

Featured AI Job: Senior Generative AI Strategist, AWS, Denver

Featured AI Job: First Assistant Attorney General, Technology and Privacy Protection, State of Colorado

Featured AI Job: NVIDIA Senior AI DevTech Engineer, Financial Sector, in Boulder office

What's up with Google's AI Overviews & SEO? Boulder SEO Marketing has answers

Featured AI Job: "Motivated postdoc" to support ML research at Golden's NREL

Colorado AI companies & organizations featured in Colorado AI News

‘AI Innovation for Everyone’ embraces the AI-curious at Denver Startup Week on Sept. 18

Letter From the Editor: 08/16/24

Inaugural 'DenAI Summit' coming to the Mile High City on September 19

AI in CO: Success of Denver’s AI hackathon highlights the region’s ascent in tech & startup world

Denver hosts its first Multimodal Innovation Hackathon for AI enthusiasts, August 2-4

The Big Picture: What just happened with OpenAI’s SearchGPT?

SIGGRAPH is back in Colorado the week of July 28. Huang & Zuckerberg will be speaking. Act fast.

AI ‘R’ Us? Toys ‘R’ Us ad, made with generative AI, incites fear & loathing

Hurry up and wait: Colorado passes landmark AI Act, but it won't go into effect until 2026

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