Fast-growing AI startup Nscale doubles Bellevue office footprint to 46K square feet

Fresh off a $2B funding round, London-based Nscale has expanded its upcoming engineering hub at The Eight tower to 46,000 square feet—doubling its original lease before the office even opens in 2027. Led locally by former Microsoft AI executive Nidhi Chappell, the fast-growing cloud infrastructure provider is gearing up for a massive hiring push on the Eastside. Read More

An ethicist’s take: What philosophy teaches us about the limits we should be setting on AI agents

A philosopher argues that the debate over AI risk focuses too narrowly on whether AI systems share human goals, and not enough on the methods those systems are allowed to use to reach them. Drawing on the intrusion into Hugging Face by OpenAI’s agents, he makes the case that companies and policymakers should decide in advance what AI agents may not treat as a tool. Read More

Madrona’s annual IA40 list shows an AI industry splitting in two

Madrona’s sixth annual Intelligent Applications 40 names 45 private AI companies that have raised $410 billion combined, with Anthropic, OpenAI and Databricks accounting for 92% of that total. Rising round sizes forced the firm to raise its own funding thresholds for what counts as an early-stage company. Read More