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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon as a VP of product overseeing Ring and related businesses, replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who succeeded him in 2023 (www.geekwire.com)
12 hours ago Amazon

Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M (www.geekwire.com)
1 day ago

Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $27M (www.geekwire.com)
3 days ago Seattle

Microsoft unveils Sales Agent and Sales Chat AI agents, available in public preview in May, designed to work with Dynamics 365 business apps and with Salesforce (www.geekwire.com)
30 days ago Microsoft AI Salesforce

Lumotive, whose optical semiconductor tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Gates Frontier and MetaVC (www.geekwire.com)
2025-2-22

Amazon sues Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post about Jeff Bezos' Amazon Project Kuiper satellite facility in Seattle (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-31 Amazon Seattle Jeff Bezos

Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI business has surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $13B, up 175% YoY, as the company faces new scrutiny over AI spending (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-30 Microsoft AI

Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-14

Microsoft is creating a new “CoreAI - Platform and Tools” unit led by Jay Parikh, the ex-Lacework CEO and Meta engineering executive who joined in October 2024 (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-14 Microsoft

Washington state's AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal information of 2M+ residents in a 2021 cyberattack (www.geekwire.com)
2025-1-8 Mobile

Amazon unveils new packaging for its Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV products, including removing plastic, less paper and ink, and using more recycled fibers (www.geekwire.com)
2024-12-19 Amazon

Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump on his “political comeback and decisive victory” in a rare X post; Bezos last reacted to Trump's failed assassination on July 13 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-11-7 Trump Jeff Bezos

Filing: Microsoft has made “funding commitments of $13B” to OpenAI and says losses from its stake were partly why it had a $683M expense on its Q1 investments (www.geekwire.com)
2024-10-31 Microsoft

Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M (www.geekwire.com)
2024-10-22 AI Robot Seattle

Microsoft unveils 10 new AI agents for its enterprise-focused Dynamics 365 apps covering sales, finance, and more, ahead of Salesforce's Agentforce availability (www.geekwire.com)
2024-10-21 Microsoft AI Salesforce

A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future (www.geekwire.com)
2024-10-19 Microsoft AI

Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models (www.geekwire.com)
2024-8-31 Amazon Robot

Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures (www.geekwire.com)
2024-8-28 Startup AI Seattle

Seattle-based industrial analytics startup Seeq raised a $50M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total raised to ~$165M (www.geekwire.com)
2024-8-7 Startup Seattle

Memo from Microsoft's chief people officer: “everyone at Microsoft” now has “security” as a “Core Priority”, used in performance reviews (www.geekwire.com)
2024-8-6 Microsoft

Chainguard, which helps companies secure their software supply chain, raised a $140M Series C co-led by Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP at a $1.12B valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2024-7-26

LevelTen, which runs a marketplace connecting buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers of clean energy projects, raised a ~$65M Series D led by B Capital (www.geekwire.com)
2024-7-17 Energy

Amazon plans to discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for SMBs launched in November 2023, on September 25 to focus on the Astro home robot (www.geekwire.com)
2024-7-4 Amazon Robot

Amazon hires the CEO and co-founders of Adept, which builds AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, to join its AGI team and will use some of Adept's tech (www.geekwire.com)
2024-6-29 Amazon AI

Seattle's Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items (www.geekwire.com)
2024-6-26 Seattle

Microsoft unveils a Team Copilot for Microsoft Teams, Loop, and Planner that can help run meetings, manage projects, assign tasks, more, coming later this year (www.geekwire.com)
2024-5-22 Microsoft

Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data (www.geekwire.com)
2024-5-1 Amazon AI

Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team (www.geekwire.com)
2024-4-4

Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-2-27

Techstars is shutting down its Seattle program, which was started in 2010, to shift focus on “hubs with the highest concentration of VC activity” (www.geekwire.com)
2024-2-22 Seattle

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