Yunyan Wang. (LinkedIn Photo) — Yunyan Wang has left Amazon to become chief technology officer at Chewy, the leading online pet retailer. Wang spent more than 12 years at the Seattle-based tech giant, most recently as vice president of Commerce & Supply Chain Services. “(Wang’s) track record...
CopilotKit co-founders Uli Barkai, head of growth, left, and CEO Atai Barkai. (CopilotKit Photo) CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in the former Techstars Seattle accelerator, has raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software applications. The...
Artist’s rendering of Moment Energy’s planned Austin, Texas, gigafactory. (Moment Energy Image) Moment Energy, a British Columbia-based startup repurposing used electric vehicle batteries, has announced a $40 million investment to help fund construction of a massive factory in Texas and more...
Caption: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the company’s Copilot initiatives. A new Microsoft study finds that the biggest barrier to AI at work isn’t the technology — it’s the organizations around it. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an...
A Panthalassa wave energy system. (LinkedIn Photo) Wave energy had largely been bobbing around in the background of the U.S. clean energy sector — until now. On Monday, Oregon-based Panthalassa announced a $140 million round led by Peter Thiel. The new funding from the PayPal co-founder and...
(BigStock Photo) For years, the rules around cellphones in Seattle Public Schools depended largely on which school — or even which classroom — a student walked into. That ended today. The district enacted its first districtwide cellphone policy on Monday, setting a single standard for all...
Microsoft’s unofficial Ninja Cat mascot rides the OpenClaw lobster. (Image via Omar Shahine’s blog) Bob. Clippy. Cortana. Copilot. Microsoft has been trying to unlock the personal-assistant puzzle for decades. Now a fledgling team inside the company that’s been experimenting with OpenClaw — an...
Project LEDO founder Fidel Ferrer, second from left, working with Lego robotics students in his program. (Project LEDO Photo) Through Lego robotics and a STEM curriculum, Project LEDO serves as both an inspiration and a safety net for low-income kids and students of color in Portland, Ore., and...
Interlune test engineer Alex Lewandowski and mechanical engineer Jessica Wu check test equipment for the mass spectrometer system in the Regolith Lab at the company’s Seattle headquarters. (Interlune Photo) NASA has awarded a $6.9 million contract to Seattle-based Interlune for the development...
Amazon is opening its logistics network to outside businesses through a new offering called Amazon Supply Chain Services. (Amazon Photo) Amazon launched a new business that opens its entire logistics network to outside companies — sending shares of UPS and FedEx tumbling and marking the latest...
An AI prompt screen, as reimagined by Google Gemini. [Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series by Oren Etzioni about AI usage and best practices. See also “AI Coach or AI Ghostwriter? The Choice Is Yours,” and “How to read with AI.”] A friend asked ChatGPT for input on a professional...
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What it was like inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how hard it is to find anyone neutral about Musk these days. Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured...
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes a waving gesture while commenting on millionaires threatening to leave Washington state during her appearance at Seattle University earlier this month. (Screenshot via YouTube / Seattle Channel) Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being greeted with a bit of backlash...
Tracy Drinkwater engaging with visitors at the Seattle Universal Math Museum, which she founded. (SUMM Photo) Tracy Drinkwater bristles when people — sometimes proudly — declare they “can’t do math.” No one, she notes, would similarly boast about being bad at reading or history. But she...
The U.S. Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (BigStock Photo) Microsoft and Amazon joined other leading artificial intelligence companies in signing deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon networks, the Defense Department announced Friday, accelerating a push to build what the military...
Panelists during a session at the Women in Tech Regatta in Seattle on Wednesday. From left, moderator Sarah Studer of the University of Washington, Maria Martin of Nordstrom, Nandita Krishnan of Adobe, and Anya Edelstein of Highspot. (WiT Regatta Photo) Women have long been left out of the...
Merrill Keating, left, and Doña Keating are the mother-daughter co-founders of AI startup Convexus. (Photo courtesy of Merrill Keating) While much of the debate around artificial intelligence centers on the technology’s threat to jobs and society, one Seattle-area startup is turning that anxiety...
Apple’s Tim Cook, left, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. (Apple, Meta Photos) Seattle Seahawks fans envisioning another tech billionaire as the new owner of the NFL team have a couple Silicon Valley-based names to consider. Or not. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been...
Top: Center for an Informed Public co-founder Kate Starbird speaking at a University of Washington lecture. Bottom: AI House managing director Jifan Zhang and an AI House event. (CIP and GeekWire Photos) Each year, the GeekWire Awards celebrate the geeky endeavors making a meaningful impact...
The night sky over Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will take a $900 million charge in its current quarter for its one-time voluntary retirement program, the company disclosed in its earnings report Wednesday. Just to put that in...
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon’s results past Wall Street’s expectations and validating, at least for now, the company’s controversial $200 billion capital spending plan. Overall, Amazon posted sales...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. The company’s...
(BigStock Image) Editor’s note: Bill Hilf is the former CEO of Vulcan/Vale Group, current board chair of Ai2 and American Prairie, and the author of the new sci-fi novel,”The Disruption,” which explores the topics of AI and natural ecosystems. He spoke about the book on the GeekWire Podcast, and...
Angus Norton. (LinkedIn Photo) — Former Microsoft and Amazon exec Angus Norton is now CEO of Inteum, an IP management platform for university technology transfer offices. Norton joins the Kirkland, Wash.-based company from Bodhi Venture Labs, an executive services firm focused on product...
Flying Fish Partners’ Geoff Harris, Frank Chang and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo) The venture world is still digesting the eye-popping debut of London-based Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from DeepMind legend David Silver, which announced $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion...
Zap Energy’s fusion device creates a purplish glow from its hydrogen plasma. (Zap Photo) Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms together to...
(Official UWOTC-CWA image) The team developing a video game based on Magic: The Gathering announced on Tuesday that they’ve unionized, describing the move as part of an attempt to improve working conditions at Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast and create better games. United Wizards of...
AWS CEO Matt Garman at the event Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI’s new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI’s models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was...
Amazon Connect Talent shows recruiters anonymized candidate scores rather than names or resumes. (Amazon Image) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon manages more than 400 million products in its supply chain and hired 250,000 seasonal workers last peak season. Now its cloud division is packaging up what the...
Screenshots of Truveta Intelligence, showing the query interface and sample results analyzing GLP-1 drug uptake trends. (Truveta Images) Truveta wants to give healthcare researchers something that has long eluded them: the ability to ask a question about real-world patient data and get an answer...
Sniffies about page. (Screenshot) Sniffies, a Seattle-based meetup platform for gay, bisexual and sexually curious men, has landed a $100 million investment from Match Group. The deal gives Match a significant minority ownership stake in the Grindr competitor, along with an option to acquire the...
Mike Katz, T-Mobile’s chief business and product officer, speaks at an event last year highlighting the company’s longstanding satellite partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) T-Mobile is boosting its footprint as a business internet provider, expanding further beyond...
Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday amid accelerating cloud growth and a record capital spending plan. (GeekWire File Photo) Follow-up: AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday with more signs than ever that...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly...