The Weekly Beat
Hello all and welcome once again to the Weekly Beat, a weekly summary of Pittsburgh tech news!
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It was a pretty quiet week for Pittsburgh tech news, so I am including some company profile pieces here that I thought were interesting reads. Here’s the latest:
Module Design Inc., an affordable homebuilding startup based in the Garfield neighborhood, is showing off a new all-electric accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in D.C. as part of a “future of housing event.” ADUs are little box houses that can fit in your backyard, which you could then presumably rent out to someone or use as a place to send your in-laws into exile. They’re actually illegal in Pittsburgh, currently, something that Module is trying to convince Pittsburgh elected officials to change.
Good Read: Lucas Systems, a Wexford-based company that specializes in warehouse optimization AI, was featured in Next Pittsburgh recently. They have a game on their website wherein you can compete against their AI to find the most optimal path for a warehouse worker.
Good Read: Behaivior AI’s work towards AI-assisted addiction recovery was featured by Technical.ly recently. Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about AI being used in this context, especially after national news broke about a chatbot offering very bad advice to individuals with eating disorders. But I do hope that it makes a positive difference in folks’ lives.
That’s it for this week! Once again, I am looking to start adding some additional content to the feed. If you are a Pittsburgh-based tech professional who is interested in doing a guest interview for the PTB podcast, please don’t hesitate to reach out on LinkedIn or elsewhere.
Have a great week!
—Austin