Artificial Intelligence

Feb 4, 2026, 6:58 AM

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all U.S. customers, making its AI assistant free for Prime members

Amazon is making Alexa+, its upgraded AI assistant, free for all U.S. Prime members starting today, including app and web-based chatbots. But with AI habits already ingrained around ChatGPT and other rivals, can Alexa+ catch up? Read More

Jan 27, 2026, 9:30 AM

Ai2 cooks up open-source coding agents with tech equivalent of ‘hot plate and frying pan’

The Seattle nonprofit built its new open-source coding agent with 32 GPUs and five researchers, a fraction of the resources used by big tech companies. Read More

Jan 26, 2026, 8:24 AM

Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip, claiming performance edge over Amazon and Google

Microsoft says its new Maia 200 chip outperforms Amazon’s and Google’s latest AI silicon on key benchmarks. The chip is already running Copilot and GPT-5.2 in production. Read More

Jan 21, 2026, 5:49 PM

Satya Nadella’s new metaphor for the AI Age: We are becoming ‘managers of infinite minds’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella riffed on some famous lines from tech leaders past this week in an appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and offered up his own trippy candidate to join the canon of computing metaphors. Read More

Jan 20, 2026, 10:51 AM

The Microsoft-OpenAI Files: Internal documents reveal the realities of AI’s defining alliance

Internal emails, texts, slide decks, and deposition testimony show how Microsoft went from being sidelined at OpenAI’s founding to wielding decisive influence over the AI lab that launched the generative AI era — and how that power is now being tested as OpenAI emerges as a platform company with leverage of its own. Read More

Jan 16, 2026, 7:00 AM

‘A new era of software development’: Claude Code has Seattle engineers buzzing as AI coding hits new phase

More than 150 techies packed the house at a Claude Code meetup event in Seattle on Thursday evening, eager to trade use cases and share how they’re using Anthropic’s fast-growing technology. Read More

Jan 13, 2026, 5:31 AM

Microsoft responds to AI data center revolt, vowing to cover full power costs and reject local tax breaks

The tech giant’s new “community first” initiative includes pledges to pay full power costs, reject local tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses — a response to growing backlash against AI infrastructure expansion. Read More

Jan 12, 2026, 8:10 AM

5 new proposals to regulate AI in Washington state, from classrooms to digital companions

Washington state lawmakers are taking another run at regulating artificial intelligence. The proposals come as Congress continues to debate AI oversight with little concrete action, leaving states to experiment with their own guardrails. Read More

Jan 8, 2026, 10:06 AM

Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi named to ‘AI Power List,’ with a nod to institute’s open-source focus

“From climate modeling to healthcare, Farhadi’s work influences how institutions scale AI for the benefit of humanity,” Business Insider said. Read More

Jan 8, 2026, 6:38 AM

Former Amazon execs raise $15M for agentic commerce startup that uses AI to generate custom storefronts

Spangle AI, a new Seattle startup that helps online retailers build customized shopping experiences in real-time, announced a $15 million… Read More

Dec 31, 2025, 6:29 AM

Is there an AI bubble? Investors sound off on risks and opportunities for tech startups in 2026

Seattle-area venture capitalists polled by GeekWire say there are clear signs of excess in early-stage AI startups, but they largely reject the idea of a catastrophic bubble and argue the technology is already delivering real value. Read More

Dec 30, 2025, 8:32 AM

How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system dominant. The question is whether that approach can still work in a world defined by phones, browsers, and the cloud. Read More

Dec 30, 2025, 7:16 AM

Ex-Amazon AI engineer bets six figures of his own money to disrupt drug discovery

Seattle biotech startup Rhizome Research has emerged from stealth with technology for creating small-molecule drug candidates. Read More

Dec 26, 2025, 8:47 AM

Microsoft CTO to AI startups: Stop waiting for better models and ‘do the damned experiments’

Kevin Scott says today’s AI tools are already powerful enough to most startup surprise founders. But extracting their value requires unglamorous product work, real customer feedback, and a willingness to experiment. Read More

Dec 20, 2025, 8:00 AM

A reality check on AI engineering: Lessons from the trenches of an early stage startup

AI isn’t replacing engineers. It’s replacing slow feedback loops, tedious work, and barriers to execution. Read More

Dec 18, 2025, 3:00 PM

‘Scientist-as-a-Service’: Seattle startup Pauling.AI aims to shrink drug discovery timelines by months

The company’s technology can complete tasks in a matter of weeks that previously required three to six months, said founder and CEO Javier Tordable. Read More

Dec 17, 2025, 9:29 AM

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad leaving; Infrastructure exec Peter DeSantis to lead unified AI group

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad is leaving at year’s end, according to a memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Peter DeSantis, a 27-year veteran who has led AWS infrastructure, will oversee a new organization combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing. Read More

Dec 16, 2025, 8:17 AM

Allen Institute for AI rivals Google, Meta and OpenAI with open-source AI vision model

Ai2 unveiled Molmo 2, a new open-source AI model that can analyze video with precision — tracking objects, counting events, and pinpointing exactly where and when things happen in a clip. The advanced vision system offers an open alternative to closed video models from Google, OpenAI, and others. Read More

Dec 10, 2025, 8:47 AM

Microsoft says its Copilot AI tool is a ‘vital companion’ in new analysis of 37.5M conversations

Microsoft has released one of its most detailed looks yet at how people use Copilot — and the results suggest the AI assistant takes on different roles depending on time of day and the device being used. Read More

Dec 10, 2025, 5:00 AM

Engineering leader survey: AI isn’t leading to massive job cuts — but it’s siphoning off weak performers

Karat’s new “AI Workforce Transformation” report coincides with the release of Karat NextGen, an AI-enabled talent evaluation solution designed to identify software engineers who will excel in an era of increased human and AI collaboration. Read More

Dec 9, 2025, 8:00 AM

Microsoft, Providence and UW create AI that unlocks tumor insights at a scale previously out of reach

Tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods. Read More

Dec 9, 2025, 8:00 AM

Seattle startup Casera emerges from PSL to help hospital managers clear bottlenecks with help from AI

Casera, a new healthcare technology startup in Seattle, is spinning out of Pioneer Square Labs with a unique approach to… Read More

Dec 9, 2025, 7:50 AM

‘We are all kids in the age of AI’: Trevor Noah teaches 5th graders — and learns a few things himself

Trevor Noah joined a 5th grade computer science class in Bellevue for Code.org’s Hour of AI, a Microsoft-supported initiative, learning alongside students and sharing why he believes kids have an edge over adults in the age of AI. Read More

Dec 8, 2025, 7:30 AM

Longtime legal leader Pallavi Wahi on leading Arnold & Porter’s new office and navigating the AI moment

Wahi recently joined Arnold & Porter to launch its Seattle office and lead strategic growth on the West Coast, following a long tenure at K&L Gates, where she was a managing partner. Read More

Dec 7, 2025, 9:50 AM

30 years after Microsoft went ‘all-in’ on the internet, the tech giant’s AI strategy echoes the past

Thirty years after Bill Gates declared Microsoft was going “all-in” on the internet, echoes of that moment are resurfacing in the company’s sweeping AI push. The parallels — and the differences — reveal how Microsoft is navigating another era-defining shift. Read More

Dec 4, 2025, 4:04 PM