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
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
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 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
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
The GeekWire Podcast goes inside the Elon Musk trial against OpenAI and Microsoft, breaks down blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Amazon, and tells the story of a tiny Seattle VC firm that hustled its way into a billion-dollar AI deal. Read More
Microsoft’s decision to have GPT and Claude check each other’s work inside Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher agent signals a broader shift: the single-model era in enterprise AI may be over. Read More
Glacis, a Seattle startup building tamper-proof records of AI behavior, has hired longtime Microsoft Azure exec Rohit Tatachar as co-founder and CTO and is launching new open-source tools for monitoring and controlling AI agents. Read More
Software in the age of AI agents is becoming something anyone can create on the fly — which could have major implications in the way “applications” are designed, built, and used. Read More
For this installment in our Agents of Transformation series, GeekWire examined the rising trend of vertical AI agents — tools built to do one job exceptionally well by combining models with domain-specific data, workflows, and context. Read More
Seattle startup Certiv emerged from stealth with $4.2 million in funding to build security software that monitors and controls AI agents on employee computers. The company is led by serial entrepreneur Jason Needham, whose previous startups were acquired by Apple and VMware. Read More
A federal judge sided with Amazon in its lawsuit over Perplexity’s Comet browser, granting a preliminary injunction in an early legal test of AI-powered shopping tools. Read More
Anthropic is acquiring Seattle AI startup Vercept, folding its desktop “computer use” technology and team into Claude as the race to build AI agents that can operate software intensifies. Vercept will shut down its Vy application as part of the deal. Read More
David Luan, who led Amazon’s AGI Lab and its Nova Act AI agent initiative, is leaving less than two years after joining through the Adept acqui-hire deal. Four of five Adept co-founders have now left the company. Read More
GeekWire announces the first wave of speakers for its Agents of Transformation summit on March 24 in Seattle, including leaders from AWS, Microsoft, Outreach, and AI startup Vercept. Read More
Computer scientist and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni shares his unvarnished take on AI agents, the platform race, OpenAI, deepfakes, and what good AI leadership looks like, during a conversation at an Accenture-hosted event in Bellevue. Read More
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
Microsoft is rolling out a new “Copilot Checkout” feature that lets shoppers complete purchases directly inside its AI chatbot, betting that its enterprise ties and retailer relationships can help it compete with OpenAI, Google and Amazon in the race toward AI-driven commerce. Read More
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
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
Recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala, this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast spotlights the 2025 Uncommon Thinkers — innovators working on space, biology, AI, environmental cleanup, and the future of social media. Read More
AI “teammates,” faster product development, and a pivot in Amazon’s applied-AI strategy: AWS SVP Colleen Aubrey joins the GeekWire Podcast to explain how agentic systems are reshaping how Amazon builds software. Read More
Amazon is experimenting again. This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down our scoop on Amazon’s new ultrafast delivery service, ride along in a Zoox robotaxi on the Las Vegas Strip, and talk with AWS SVP Colleen Aubrey about Amazon’s push into applied AI and the rise of AI “teammates.” Read More
Microsoft is shifting toward “per-agent” computing, unveiling Agent 365 and new tools at Ignite that let companies manage and secure autonomous AI agents like employees. Read More
Read AI CEO David Shim talks with GeekWire’s John Cook about the realities of the AI boom — solid fundamentals with some froth at the edges, rising demand for AI assistants, the growing value of cross-team intelligence and multi-platform tools, and the potentially controversial emergence of digital work twins. Read More
In the glowing demo rooms of Microsoft’s new Experience Center One, the company is making a high-stakes pitch for the potential of AI agents — attempting to get businesses on board with its vision of the future. Read More
The pandemic and rise of AI are part of one continuous transformation in the way we work, and it’s not over yet, says Microsoft’s Colette Stallbaumer, author of the new book “WorkLab: Five years that shook the business world, and sparked an AI-first future.” Read More
A new generation of AI executive assistants is taking on tasks like scheduling, travel, and email — but they’re still far from matching human judgment. GeekWire’s new Agents of Transformation series explores where the technology truly stands. Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, T.A. McCann of Pioneer Square Labs explains how AI agents are changing company creation, why distribution and data now matter more than product, and what agent-to-agent interactions mean for the future of business. Read More
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