This week on the GeekWire Podcast, T.A. McCann of Pioneer Square Labs explains how AI agents are changing company creation, why distribution and data now matter more than product, and what agent-to-agent interactions mean for the future of business. Read More
Shivaas Gulati has been learning the intricacies of operating a sports venture as part of the ownership group for an English soccer team and as a technical advisor to Seattle Sounders FC. Read More
Andy Rebele spent 13 years working on electric outboard motors aimed at disrupting the leisure boating industry, and he’s now shifted to defense tech. Read More
Smartsheet has cut more than 120 jobs amid a leadership transition and its $8.4B private equity takeover, as the Bellevue-based software company accelerates its push into artificial intelligence. Read More
Jonathan Pan served in Afghanistan after 9/11 and is now co-founder and CEO of Exia Labs, a Seattle-area company building AI software to improve military wargaming. Read More
At the Madrona IA Summit in Seattle, OpenAI strategy chief Jason Kwon outlined how startups can avoid getting “Sherlocked” by the AI giant, while also offering insights on AGI, profitability, and the company’s new push into e-commerce. Read More
With top-tier tech talent and a deep farming heritage, Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest are emerging as one of the country’s key hubs for agriculture technology. Read More
Alpyne Labs created its AI-powered tool to take care of benefits checks, billing, scheduling, notes organization and more to free up therapists to concentrate on patient care. Read More
Companies have been scrambling to figure out how they are affected by Senate Bill 5814 since it was passed in the final days of the legislative session earlier this year. Read More
Amazon’s top AI scientist Rohit Prasad outlined a “model factory” approach and shift toward AI agents at Madrona’s IA Summit in Seattle. The strategy uses Amazon’s own internal systems as reinforcement learning gyms to accelerate the development of its Nova models and enterprise AI tools. Read More
Phaidra, a Seattle startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, announced $50 million in new funding. Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is handing off day-to-day commercial execution to longtime sales chief Judson Althoff, who takes on the new role of CEO of commercial business. The change frees Nadella to focus more on AI and long-term technology bets. Read More
A consortium of top U.S. cancer centers has developed an AI platform that trains models on clinical data from multiple institutions while protecting patient privacy, with the goal of cutting the timeline for new discoveries in cancer research from years to months. Read More
Hadi Partovi called out a new episode of the newspaper’s “The Daily” podcast and ongoing media reports questioning whether computer science grads have been sold an empty promise about plentiful jobs and six-figure salaries. Read More
