Artificial Intelligence – Page 2 of 28

Feb 24, 2026, 8:07 AM

San Francisco AI startup Nooks makes engineering push in Seattle

Nooks is nestling into Seattle. The San Francisco-based startup, which builds AI software for sales teams, is expanding its engineering… Read More

Feb 23, 2026, 12:34 PM

Seattle startup Elevāt raises $12M to help industrial companies speed up equipment repairs

The company is positioning itself as an answer to a growing shortage of skilled workers with expertise to maintain complicated industrial equipment. Read More

Feb 23, 2026, 10:10 AM

Temporal CEO Samar Abbas on the ‘massive platform shift’ in AI fueling the startup’s $5B valuation

“There is a massive platform shift happening,” Temporal CEO Samar Abbas told GeekWire. “And there is a whole layer of infrastructure being developed right now.” Read More

Feb 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

‘We’re experimenting aggressively’: How Expedia sees AI reshaping travel — and its own business

Expedia is responding to the AI era by making sure it’s testing new ways to reach travelers — and also using it aggressively inside its own business. Read More

Feb 12, 2026, 8:00 AM

This Seattle startup wants to turn AI prompts into shareable software

The idea behind Prom is to turn AI prompts — the instructions people give AI tools like ChatGPT — into something you can deploy, share, remix, and discover. Read More

Feb 11, 2026, 8:00 AM

Startup founder’s new chapter: A vibe-coded project using human curation and AI to recommend books

Sarah Ritter of Seattle built the web app Sarah’s Books using her own collection, and AI helps readers search across themes and genres. Read More

Feb 11, 2026, 5:00 AM

AI startup founded by ex-Accolade leaders lands $8.5M from Seattle VCs to rethink contact center operations

The company revealed more details about its “operational intelligence platform” for contact centers — the massive customer service operations that companies across healthcare, travel, and financial services rely on to handle millions of interactions. Read More

Feb 10, 2026, 9:17 AM

Can AI pass this test? School districts start projects backed by Microsoft and Gates Foundation

Washington school districts gathered at Microsoft to launch AI projects in education, backed by grants from Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. National research presented at the event showed that even the most ambitious districts are struggling to measure whether AI is making a difference. Read More

Feb 10, 2026, 6:53 AM

Former GitHub CEO launches new developer platform with huge $60M seed round

Entre, valued at $300 million, has a big vision to rebuild the developer platform around AI coding agents. Read More

Feb 9, 2026, 5:37 PM

Elon Musk’s xAI lands in Bellevue, joining OpenAI in growing Eastside AI corridor

Elon Musk’s xAI is setting up shop in downtown Bellevue, with job listings showing the office will go beyond infrastructure to serve as a hub for core AI model development. Read More

Feb 9, 2026, 4:21 PM

Zillow at 20: Real estate giant leans on AI to make homebuying hurt less

Zillow built its brand by letting people window‑shop for homes and by generating advertising revenue from real estate agents. But now, as Zillow marks its 20th anniversary on Monday, its leaders are pushing toward something bigger. Read More

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