9:00 AM PDT Startups9:00 AM PDT Seattle VC firm Ascend raises $25M for second fund, plans to double down on AI
6:36 AM PDT Microsoft6:36 AM PDT Microsoft’s optimistic view of AI sees technology ending the drudgery of ‘digital debt’
6:00 AM PDT Amazon6:00 AM PDT ‘Amazon Anywhere’ brings shopping experience inside new AR game from makers of ‘Pokèmon Go’
6:00 AM PDT Tech6:00 AM PDT Echodyne radar venture joins forces with Supernal to enhance eVTOL safety system
5:00 AM PDT Artificial Intelligence5:00 AM PDT Tableau’s new CEO on the company’s expansion into AI and its future under Salesforce
1:44 PM PDT Games1:44 PM PDT ‘Destiny 2’ developer Bungie wins $6.7M in lawsuit against video game cheat-maker
1:15 PM PDT Impact Series1:15 PM PDT Wood or would not? Earthquake test to study how 10-story timber building stands up to Seattle shake
10:26 AM PDT Civic10:26 AM PDT Meet the ‘pragmatic progressive’ balancing tech and business interests with social issues
9:11 AM PDT Tech9:11 AM PDT What Redfin and Zillow earnings say about the state of the housing market
7:30 AM PDT Startups7:30 AM PDT Avalara co-founder leads new advisory firm helping companies create digital assets
8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 30, 2023
7:31 AM PDT Podcast We had our AI voice clones read an AI-generated GeekWire Podcast script — listen to the result
7:26 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences7:26 AM PDT Don’t spin out too early, and get out of the way: Advice for biotech founders from Dr. Jim Olson
9:19 AM PDT Startups9:19 AM PDT Genemod lands $4.5M for life sciences data storage and collaboration platform
7:00 AM PDT Startups7:00 AM PDT Microsoft vet and ex-Beats by Dre CEO lead new hardware-focused Seattle startup studio
4:20 PM PDT Tech4:20 PM PDT Redfin CEO says housing downturn made real estate giant ‘leaner, hungrier and better’
2:20 PM PDT Tech2:20 PM PDT Expedia stock up 6% after beating Q1 estimates with $2.7B in revenue, up 18%
10:41 AM PDT Bot or Not10:41 AM PDT Brains vs. bots in the newsroom: Can AI generate better story ideas than humans can?
6:51 AM PDT Geek Life6:51 AM PDT Inside the ultimate Star Wars house, where two fans built a galaxy-sized collection of toys and more
6:43 AM PDT Amazon6:43 AM PDT AI researcher sues Amazon for withdrawing job offer amid cutbacks after 8-month visa process
12:01 AM PDT Microsoft12:01 AM PDT Microsoft Bing adds AI chat history, exports, visual search results, new web integrations
4:39 PM PDT Tech4:39 PM PDT DocuSign — which is forcing employees back to the office — touts report about remote work benefits
3:17 PM PDT Amazon3:17 PM PDT Amazon workers, and a familiar energy, return to Seattle HQ as new in-person office policy kicks in
1:05 PM PDT Tech1:05 PM PDT Zillow Group tops Q1 estimates with $469M in revenue amid ‘challenging’ housing market
1:05 PM PDT Artificial Intelligence1:05 PM PDT Zillow Group rolls out ChatGPT tool, sees conversational AI as a growth opportunity
10:39 AM PDT Tech10:39 AM PDT A ‘bold innovation’ in coffee? Starbucks with olive oil is not as bad as we were led to believe
10:32 AM PDT Startups10:32 AM PDT Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more
10:11 AM PDT Startups10:11 AM PDT Seattle startup vets who founded Urbanspoon, Crowd Cow, Algorithmia lead stealthy AI startup
