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Articles from 2025

Official AI raises $2M for platform that enables authentic AI content creation for brands and talent

Official AI, a Seattle startup whose platform helps brands and talent create and collaborate on AI-generated image and audio content,… Read More

Allen Institute for AI’s new open-source iOS AI app runs on-device for secure, private, offline use

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released its first on-device AI app Tuesday morning, leveraging a version of its open-source… Read More

What’s at stake for Washington’s flagship research institutions in the legal battle over NIH funding

The fight now unfolding over the Trump administration’s sudden limit on National Institutes of Health grant funding could have deep… Read More

Ex-Allen Institute for AI scientists form stealthy AI startup, with former Ai2 CEO Oren Etzioni

A group of former Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) research leaders have formed a new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup, Vercept.… Read More

In chat with Bill Gates, Mark Cuban compares big NBA trade to Microsoft unloading Windows 11

Mark Cuban tapped Bill Gates for some perspective on a recent business decision that reshaped the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA… Read More

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of… Read More

Carbon Robotics releases new line of laser weed-zappers for more types of farms and budgets

Carbon Robotics wants to zap more weeds among more types of crops on farms of all sizes, and to get… Read More

T-Mobile uses Super Bowl ad to officially launch public beta of satellite-to-cell texting via Starlink

Forget the ground game. T-Mobile is using Super Bowl LIX to kick off a new kind of air attack on… Read More

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 2, 2025

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 2, 2025. Read More

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Podcast: Amazon, AI, and the cloud — a reality check, with Corey Quinn of ‘Last Week in AWS’

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sounded more bullish than ever about the potential for artificial intelligence on the company’s earnings call… Read More

Amazon cuts workforce diversity reference from annual filing amid Trump-led backlash against DEI

Amazon scrubbed a reference to workforce diversity from its annual 10-K report this morning, reflecting a broader corporate retreat from… Read More

Double Billing: Bill Gates and Bill Nye geek out on computers, science and changing human history

Talk about a double Billing. Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” and Bill Gates, the software guy, came together on one… Read More

‘Layoffs and pain’: Frozen federal funding batters clean energy and climate efforts

President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order puzzles David Funk. The order targets clean energy efforts, pausing the distribution of… Read More

Amazon on pace for $100B+ in yearly capex; Jassy expects cost efficiencies to drive AI demand

Amazon reported $26.3 billion in capital expenditures in the fourth quarter, and the company plans to keep spending at that… Read More

Amazon’s quarterly profits soar to a record $20 billion, but cloud growth comes up short

Amazon beat Wall Street’s overall expectations with $187.8 billion in net sales, up 10%, and came in well ahead on… Read More

Portland cybersecurity risk assessment startup DeepSurface acquired

Portland cybersecurity startup DeepSurface was acquired this week by AttackIQ, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that helps customers evaluate security… Read More

Cheaper, smarter AI? UW, Ai2, and Stanford researchers boost model by making it ‘think’ longer

In a new demonstration of the potential to improve artificial intelligence without breaking the bank, researchers from the University of… Read More

Microsoft alums were surprised by the sheer scale of its success, new oral history project shows

Even with Microsoft’s hard-driving culture, and its vision for a computer on every desk and in every home (running Microsoft software), the magnitude of its success took many of the company’s early employees by surprise, a new oral history project shows. Read More

Seattle’s DeltaGen raises $1.2M to market its generative AI tech for streamlining M&A deals

DeltaGen, a Seattle startup offering software that helps companies apply generative AI tools to their processes, has raised $1.2 million.… Read More

Dopl Technologies raises $1.5M to fuel mission of delivering telerobotic care to underserved areas

Dopl Technologies, a Seattle startup working to bring diagnostic exams and interventional procedures to underserved communities via telerobotics, raised $1.5… Read More

Amazon earnings preview: AWS cloud growth, AI demand, trade wars among key issues to watch

Amazon’s cloud growth rate has been increasing steadily in recent quarters, and investors are looking for the trend to continue… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft poaches 3 AI experts from Google DeepMind; Rover names COO; and more

— Microsoft hired three former members of Google DeepMind, which was originally co-founded as a startup research lab by Microsoft’s… Read More

Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff is new CEO of Match Group family of dating apps

Spencer Rascoff, the tech veteran who co-founded and led Seattle-based real estate company Zillow Group, has been named CEO of… Read More

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Amid AI boom, Gov. Ferguson creates workgroup to study impact of data centers in Washington state

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson announced that he’s forming a workgroup to dig into the impacts of data centers in the… Read More

Tesla could lose its big EV sales advantage in Washington state if lawmakers pass new rules

Tesla could soon lose its electric vehicle sales advantage as Washington state lawmakers are taking their third shot at legislation… Read More

Descent of Blue Origin New Shepard booster

Blue Origin puts a lunar spin on suborbital research flight of New Shepard rocket ship

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a… Read More

For third year, Paul Allen Foundation giving $10M to support arts and culture in Washington state

For the third straight year, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is giving $10 million to support arts and culture… Read More

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Interview: Bill Gates on his early years, key influences, and outlook on the world today

In advance of the release of his new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for… Read More

University of Washington selects Robert Jones as its 34th president, succeeding Ana Mari Cauce

The University of Washington, one of the nation’s top research universities and an academic linchpin of the Seattle region’s tech… Read More

First electric fire engine in Wash. state unveiled in Redmond as city seeks more sustainable fleet

Redmond, Wash., is home to the first electric fire engine to enter service in Washington state as city government officials… Read More

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