Articles about AI agents

Etzioni on AI: An Opinionated Glossary of AI

Everyone in tech says things like LLM, open weights, RAG and agent; far fewer could define precisely what they all mean. Oren Etzioni sorts out about 30 AI terms in plain English, with a blunt verdict on each and one novel phrase he believes isn’t used enough. Read More

Microsoft starts merging its Copilot consumer and business apps in advance of ‘Super App’ rollout

Microsoft is combining its consumer and business Copilot apps into a single app, in a gradual transition starting this week. Copilot Podcasts, Group Chat and Deep Research will be retired beginning Aug. 18, along with Mico, the animated character added to Copilot’s voice mode last year. Read More

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SeattleJS: Web Tech Talks – August

SeattleJS, the region’s largest JavaScript and web developer meetup, holds its August gathering at Just The Tap in Belltown. The… Read More

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AI Agents Seattle: August 2026 Meetup

The August gathering of AI Agents Seattle, a community meetup for engineers and builders working on agentic AI systems, held… Read More

Etzioni on AI: Murphy’s Law of AI

Oren Etzioni writes that the AI break-ins disclosed over the past three weeks by OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK’s AI Security Institute were entirely predictable. He argues that better alignment won’t prevent the next one, and makes the case for bounding what an agent can touch instead. Read More

Microsoft 2.5: How EVP Charles Lamanna is helping turn Microsoft into the ‘Copilot company’

Charles Lamanna, who leads Microsoft’s Copilot, agents, and platform work, is helping build the coming Copilot Super App — a single front door meant to unify the company’s sprawling AI products. He talks with Mary Jo Foley about the plan, the “Copilot Palooza” it’s meant to fix, and why Microsoft wants to be “the Copilot company.” Read More

Microsoft escalates the AI security race with ‘Project Perception’ and a new in-house model

Microsoft on Monday unveiled Project Perception, an AI cybersecurity system built to defend against AI-driven attacks, aiming to keep pace with both hackers and its technology rivals. It’s part of a broader escalation across the industry. Read More

New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust

Docugami, the Kirkland, Wash., startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, is open-sourcing DGML, a format that turns business documents into structured, verifiable data for AI. The company is releasing it under an open-source license and partnering with Inveniam and Mantra to anchor the data on a blockchain. Read More

The code AI forgot: logcat.ai raises $2.55M to put agents to work on device operating systems

Seattle startup logcat.ai has raised $2.55 million in pre-seed funding to build AI agents for debugging and developing device operating systems. Founded by two former Esper engineers, the company is going after the low-level Android and Linux software inside phones, vehicles, and other connected devices. Read More

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Secure AI Hackathon | 24 Hr Online

Register here: https://hackathon.seattledataai.org/ Secure AI Hackathon Join us for a free 24-hour online hackathon organized by the Seattle Data, AI… Read More

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Microsoft’s reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders

On this week’s show, we’re on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the surprising rise of hardware companies on the GeekWire 200. Read More

An agent in the empty chair: Amazon vets launch Primitive Labs, using AI to model customer behavior

Founded by former Amazon AGI and AWS colleagues and backed by a16z Speedrun, Primitive Labs is building AI agents that stand in for a company’s customers, letting product teams see how people will react to a new feature or design before it ships.
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Microsoft’s next big thing for the cloud: an agent that keeps its cool when everything falls apart

Microsoft is promising relief to engineers who get woken up at 3 a.m. for outages and other cloud glitches: an… Read More

This startup wants to move kidney care out of the fax-machine era

Seattle-based Apacendo Health is building AI agents that read incoming faxes and enter patient data into electronic health records for nephrology practices, aiming to cut the administrative work that consumes hours of clinic staff time each day Read More

Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human control

AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go. Read More

Two pizzas and a prototype: How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions

Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services. They’ve been using the tools themselves to quietly change how they work — starting with one of Amazon’s most sacred processes. Read More

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Good to Great with AI Agents: A Panel with Seattle’s Best AI Entrepreneurs (Seattle Tech Week)

Lightspeed AI hosts a fully caffeinated morning panel (complete with mobile espresso cart) bringing together Seattle’s sharpest minds in AI… Read More

Ai2’s Skylight project launches ‘Shippy,’ an AI agent that dives into ocean data

Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI has launched Shippy, a free AI agent built on its Skylight ocean-monitoring platform that answers maritime analysts’ plain-language questions using live vessel-tracking and satellite data. Read More

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Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down the news from Microsoft Build from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft’s push to rely less on OpenAI and Anthropic, and the mounting pressure on GitHub. Read More

Mary Jo Foley: No Copilot ‘Super App’ at Microsoft Build, but plenty of agentic fodder

Microsoft teased its rumored Copilot “Super App” at Build but didn’t demo it. Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley assesses the no-show, explains why the initiative matters, and considers what the company actually did announce. Read More

Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps

A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The first two concept devices, a desktop hub and a wearable badge, are headed to pilots with some big-name businesses. Read More

AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains why vision comes first

Brian Evergreen, a former Microsoft AI leader and author of Autonomous Transformation, argues that most companies are approaching AI backward — starting with the technology instead of a vision for what they want to create. In a live GeekWire Podcast recording, he explains how leaders can adjust their approach. Read More

PSL’s T.A. McCann is running a startup again, as the CEO of Lev — an ‘AI co-founder’ for startups

After eight years as managing director at Pioneer Square Labs, serial entrepreneur T.A. McCann is becoming CEO of Lev, an AI-powered co-founder platform for early-stage founders. PSL is spinning out Lev as a standalone company with McCann at the helm. Read More

Seattle’s CopilotKit raises $27M, as some of the biggest names in tech adopt its AI agent protocol

CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in Techstars Seattle, raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software apps. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have adopted the company’s open AG-UI protocol. Read More

Microsoft’s new research finds an AI ‘paradox’ holding companies back

Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index finds that the biggest barrier to AI at work isn’t the technology or the workers — it’s the organizations around them. Only 13% of AI users say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in their jobs. Read More

Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge

A small team inside Microsoft led by Corporate Vice President Omar Shahine is building “Project Lobster,” an OpenClaw-based agent designed to work around the clock on behalf of knowledge workers within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The project already has more than 3,000 daily users inside the company. Read More

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AI agents

Etzioni on AI: An Opinionated Glossary of AI

Microsoft starts merging its Copilot consumer and business apps in advance of ‘Super App’ rollout

SeattleJS: Web Tech Talks – August

AI Agents Seattle: August 2026 Meetup

Etzioni on AI: Murphy’s Law of AI

Microsoft 2.5: How EVP Charles Lamanna is helping turn Microsoft into the ‘Copilot company’

Microsoft escalates the AI security race with ‘Project Perception’ and a new in-house model

New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust

The code AI forgot: logcat.ai raises $2.55M to put agents to work on device operating systems

Secure AI Hackathon | 24 Hr Online

Microsoft’s reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders

An agent in the empty chair: Amazon vets launch Primitive Labs, using AI to model customer behavior

This startup wants to move kidney care out of the fax-machine era

Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human control

Two pizzas and a prototype: How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions

Good to Great with AI Agents: A Panel with Seattle’s Best AI Entrepreneurs (Seattle Tech Week)

Ai2’s Skylight project launches ‘Shippy,’ an AI agent that dives into ocean data

Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley: No Copilot ‘Super App’ at Microsoft Build, but plenty of agentic fodder

Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps

AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains why vision comes first

PSL’s T.A. McCann is running a startup again, as the CEO of Lev — an ‘AI co-founder’ for startups

Seattle’s CopilotKit raises $27M, as some of the biggest names in tech adopt its AI agent protocol

Microsoft’s new research finds an AI ‘paradox’ holding companies back

Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge

Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a Seattle VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal

Microsoft 365 Copilot and the end of the single-model era in enterprise AI

Seattle startup Glacis brings longtime Microsoft leader aboard to target AI’s biggest blind spot

Everyone is a builder: Microsoft and OpenAI execs on the new era of AI-powered personal software