May 11, 2024, 9:25 AM Inside the GeekWire Awards: What’s next for AI, the economy, and startups This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go inside the GeekWire Awards, our annual event recognizing the top leaders, companies,… Read More
May 4, 2024, 7:41 AM Amazon vs. Trader Joe’s; Bill Gates still a force at Microsoft; Inside the Binance founder’s sentencing This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed… Read More
Apr 27, 2024, 8:41 AM ‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A conversation with Dana Mattioli, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the new… Read More
Apr 20, 2024, 7:16 AM Who will be the Next Tech Titan? A preview of the upcoming GeekWire Awards This week on the show, we offer a sneak preview of the GeekWire Awards, at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle… Read More
Apr 13, 2024, 8:14 AM GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels, the Amazon chief technology officer. “We’re all… Read More
Apr 6, 2024, 8:41 AM Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater… Read More
Mar 30, 2024, 8:05 AM GeekWire Podcast: Inside a Tesla Cybertruck; how police dogs find devices; Ballmer’s comedian son This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Reporter Kurt Schlosser takes us inside a Tesla Cybertruck, explains what it was like… Read More
Mar 23, 2024, 7:44 AM GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big AI hires, U.S. vs. Apple, and graffiti-fighting drones This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We peel back the layers of Microsoft’s hiring of AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman and… Read More
Mar 16, 2024, 6:15 AM Inside the plan to save Zulily: How ‘The Profit’ will try to revive a once high-flying e-commerce brand This week on the GeekWire Podcast: The rise, fall, and revival of Zulily. We revisit one the most prominent e-commerce… Read More
Mar 9, 2024, 6:30 AM Seattle tech leaders launch nonprofit to push for greater transparency in AI training data Artificial intelligence is a powerful technology that promises to reshape the future, but it also poses many challenges and risks.… Read More
Mar 6, 2024, 7:17 AM AI’s trust problem: Richard Edelman on the risk from the tech industry’s rapid rollouts A new report points to a crisis of trust in innovation, and the risk that rapid technological change — especially… Read More
Mar 2, 2024, 7:48 AM How Microsoft, T-Mobile, and Amazon use big bets to build durable businesses in turbulent times At the outset of their new book, “Big Bet Leadership,” authors John Rossman and Kevin McCaffrey identify three “mega forces”… Read More
Feb 28, 2024, 6:39 AM Seattle after Techstars: Former managing director reflects on accelerator’s impact, looks ahead Entrepreneur and investor Chris DeVore had an inside view of Techstars Seattle as one of the original leaders of the… Read More
Feb 24, 2024, 7:35 AM GeekWire Podcast: Techstars Seattle’s demise leaves a gap in the startup market Techstars Seattle helped launch more than 160 startups over the past decade, partnered with the likes of Microsoft and Amazon… Read More
Feb 17, 2024, 8:32 AM GeekWire Podcast: OpenAI’s Sora, a new Amazon book, and 5 days a week in the office This week on the GeekWire Podcast, stick around to the end for a late-breaking addition to the show — a… Read More
Feb 10, 2024, 7:19 AM GeekWire Podcast: Bezos’ big stock sale, Nadella’s first 10 years, and will AI read your next book? This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we examine the timing of Jeff Bezos’ plan to sell up to 50 million… Read More
Feb 3, 2024, 7:51 AM GeekWire Podcast: Apple Vision Pro, a developer’s take; Detecting and defusing AI deepfakes First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial… Read More
Jan 27, 2024, 8:45 AM GeekWire Podcast: Experiments in AI, with software engineer Kevin Leneway of Pioneer Square Labs Over the holidays, my daughter and I experimented with creating custom nametag stickers for the family members we were traveling… Read More
Jan 20, 2024, 8:04 AM GeekWire Podcast: Costco vs. Amazon, Microsoft’s latest Copilot, and a Zulily conspiracy theory This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we consider Microsoft’s latest AI product, the $20/month Copilot Pro subscription service, compare it… Read More
Jan 13, 2024, 9:02 AM ‘Unfinished business’: Ring CEO Liz Hamren leads Amazon’s home monitoring products into the AI era Liz Hamren has been CEO of Amazon’s Ring business for almost a year, as the successor in the role to… Read More
Jan 6, 2024, 8:14 AM Can AI level the playing field? GeekWire Podcast with Nancy Wang of Advancing Women in Tech Startup investor Nancy Wang sees the potential for generative artificial intelligence to change the balance of power in fields such… Read More
Dec 30, 2023, 9:13 AM GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond “The biggest surprise is that AI used to be narrow. … And when you went from one application to the… Read More
Dec 16, 2023, 6:56 AM Surviving Amazon: Work, life, and bias inside one of the world’s most ambitious businesses [Editor’s Note: We’re excited this week to welcome a guest host to the GeekWire Podcast, Ross Reynolds, whose voice is… Read More
Dec 9, 2023, 9:28 AM How to be an ‘Uncommon Thinker’: What we learned profiling innovative leaders solving big problems What does it take to create meaningful change in the modern world? A few ideas: Those are some of the… Read More
Dec 2, 2023, 10:23 AM ‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood Conference attendees in Las Vegas are accustomed to encountering people standing on the street, aggressively trying to hand them flyers… Read More
Nov 25, 2023, 8:31 AM GeekWire Podcast: What’s next for Microsoft and OpenAI; Amazon car sales; disappearing unicorns This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we assess the outcome of the drama at OpenAI, considering what the removal and… Read More
Nov 18, 2023, 8:12 AM Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he… Read More
Nov 11, 2023, 8:12 AM ‘Embrace this messiness’: Computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li explains her hope for AI and humanity Fei-Fei Li‘s new book is the story of her journey from China to the U.S., from small business to Big… Read More
Nov 4, 2023, 8:04 AM GeekWire Podcast: Bezos’ big move, Convoy’s last stop, AI meets VC, and more news of the week What should we make of Jeff Bezos’ decision to move from Seattle to Miami? It’s tempting to see the Amazon… Read More
Oct 28, 2023, 7:42 AM Inside the AI Revolution: Tech execs on the new realities for software, startups, and the future This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring a panel discussion from the recent GeekWire Summit in Seattle, with three… Read More