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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

Expedia says CEO Peter Kern will step down after four years in the role and names its president for business, Ariane Gorin, as CEO, effective May 13, 2024 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-2-9

A Microsoft engineer tells WA's AG he found ways to exploit DALL-E 3 to make explicit images, reported it, but was then told to take down a public post about it (www.geekwire.com)
2024-1-31 Microsoft

Bellevue, WA-based Oleria, which helps companies manage employee access to applications and data, raised a $33.1M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners (www.geekwire.com)
2024-1-19 Equity

Cybersecurity company ExtraHop raises $100M in new funding from existing investors and says it ended 2023 with ~$200M ARR, double what it reported in 2021 (www.geekwire.com)
2024-1-10

Seattle-based Rhythms, which plans to use AI to analyze companies' patterns, such as monthly reviews and weekly meetings, comes out of stealth with a $26M seed (www.geekwire.com)
2023-12-9 AI Seattle

A look at OpenAI's complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI's origins as a non-profit organization (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-19 Microsoft

Internal memo: Amazon plans to cut several hundred roles in its Alexa division as part of a broader shift in priorities and a focus on generative AI (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-18 Amazon AI

Amazon is merging the Comixology app with Kindle on December 4, and all comics that users own via Comixology will be integrated into their Kindle libraries (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-16 Amazon

Chainguard, which helps companies secure their open-source software supply chain, raised a $61M Series B led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $116M (www.geekwire.com)
2023-11-2

Magnitude 4.3 earthquake hits near Seattle; tsunami not expected (www.geekwire.com)
2023-10-9 Seattle

Memo: Qualtrics plans to cut ~14% of its workforce, or 780 employees, citing a need to address the “complexity” created by its past “rapid hiring” and growth (www.geekwire.com)
2023-10-9

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