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Jake Loosararian Built a Robot to See What Industry Couldn’t
A deadly inspection, a broke founder and a wall-crawling machine became an argument for giving old infrastructure a memory. Now Loosararian wants Pittsburgh to help build the physical age of AI.
Troy Demmer Is Teaching Machines to Read the Rust
A finance graduate went looking for better diagnoses and found them inside boilers, warships, and factories. At Gecko Robotics, Troy Demmer has made a career of turning hard-to-reach metal into data people can act on.
Duolingo Built a Billion-Dollar Habit Out of Five-Minute Lessons
The green owl did not win by promising fluency overnight. It won by making tomorrow's five-minute lesson feel harder to skip than today's - then built subscriptions, testing and AI conversation on top of that habit.
CEI Spent 34 Years Learning the Enterprise. Now It Wants to Put AI to Work Inside It.
The Pittsburgh systems integrator is betting that the hard part of enterprise AI is not the model. It is the unglamorous work of fitting intelligence into old systems, guarded data and everyday operations - then keeping it running.