Articles about artificial intelligence – Page 2 of 31

Microsoft 2.5: A new series on the people shaping the company’s future

Mary Jo Foley is launching a GeekWire series profiling the people and priorities behind Microsoft’s evolution. It’s a look at what she calls the “Microsoft 2.5” era, where cloud and AI dominate but the company still can’t walk away from Windows, Office, and enterprise customers whose products weren’t built around AI. 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

U.S. map with sites of wildfires, earthquakes and other natural phenomena pinpointed

TerraByte AI expands its ‘Earth Search Engine’ with satellite imagery partnership and interactive features

Startup upgrades ‘Earth Search Engine’ to open new paths to high-resolution satellite imagery and data-driven insights. Read More

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Claude Code Workshop [Seattle Tech Week]

Claude Community Events and We Build With AI close out Seattle Tech Week with a hands-on Claude Code workshop over… Read More

UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S. engineering hub amid AI boom

AI infrastructure company Nscale is expanding its presence in Bellevue with a new U.S. engineering headquarters, adding to the Eastside’s growing role as a hub for artificial intelligence talent and cloud computing infrastructure. Read More

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AI Tinkerers Seattle Summer Bash

AI Tinkerers Seattle brings the local AI builder community together for a rooftop summer celebration during Seattle Tech Week, hosted… Read More

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GTMxAI Engineering July – Seattle Tech Week

AI Tinkerers Seattle brings its GTM Track to Seattle Tech Week, sponsored by PSL (Pioneer Square Labs) and tarka.ai. The… Read More

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AI Tinkerers Seattle: AI Dev Tools Track

AI Tinkerers Seattle hosts its monthly Dev Tools Track — a session for the AI-first builder featuring lightning demos, live… Read More

AI weapons under scrutiny as activists plan weekend protest at Anduril’s Seattle office

Activists plan a Sunday protest outside Anduril’s Seattle office over AI-powered military technology, as the defense company expands its presence in Washington. 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

JPMorgan Chase bets on Seattle to build its AI control layer

JPMorgan Chase is building out a new AI software infrastructure team, with a major presence in Seattle, focused on running AI across its data centers and outside providers in a way that controls costs, protects its intellectual property, and avoids tying its fortunes to any one vendor. Read More

Startup Spotlight: Hedgehog bets that open-source networking will power the next generation of AI clouds

Founded in 2022 by CEO Marc Austin, a Cisco networking veteran, Hedgehog develops open-source software designed to make private AI data centers operate more like hyperscale clouds. Read More

Vieu launches AI-ready map of business relationships, challenging tech incumbents

Vieu, a Seattle startup founded by former Microsoft leaders, launched its “Business Graph” — a live map of business relationships built from observed signals like shared work history and board affiliations, rather than the self-reported connections on LinkedIn. Read More

Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona

Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer launched Thira, a Bellevue-based enterprise AI startup, with $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Thira is building AI agents to autonomously handle IT support tickets and other back-office work at large companies. Read More

Etzioni on AI: Who disagrees with you about AI? Here’s what the research shows

Optimism comes from those with the most to gain, in the rising economies and inside the labs; doubts rise from those with the most to lose or the most to fear. Read More

Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers

Former Amazon executive Dave Clark’s supply chain startup has raised $50 million in new funding, bringing its total to $150 million, as it builds a customer base that includes Meta, Fanatics, and Kimberly-Clark. 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 cuts 4,800 jobs, about 2% globally, revamps salesforce and launches massive Xbox overhaul

Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs and overhauling its Xbox gaming business in what its new gaming CEO calls the biggest restructuring in Xbox history, while reshaping its sales and consulting division amid record AI spending and a 30% stock slide. Read More

Steamboats to software: Microsoft’s Brad Smith mines America’s founding for tech insights

Microsoft is releasing a six-part video series, hosted by President Brad Smith, that uses moments in American history — beginning with patents in Philadelphia and privacy in Boston — to reflect on technology and innovation questions facing the country as it turns 250. Read More

KredosAI raises $7M, led by BMW’s venture arm, to use AI to help companies collect late payments

KredosAI, an Issaquah startup founded by former T-Mobile executives, raised $7 million led by BMW i Ventures for its AI platform that helps companies collect overdue payments while keeping customers. The round brings its total funding to a little over $10 million. Read More

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers

“Microsoft Frontier Company” is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners. Read More

Private AI: Venice.ai, led by crypto vet Erik Voorhees and Seattle’s Jesse Proudman, raises $65M

Venice.ai, a privacy-focused AI startup led by CEO Erik Voorhees and Seattle-based president and CTO Jesse Proudman, has raised $65 million in its first outside funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company offers a private alternative to mainstream AI services, saying it doesn’t store users’ prompts or responses. Read More

Anthropic expands in Seattle as AI boom offers hope for struggling office market

The maker of the Claude AI model recently finalized a lease at Dexter Yard North in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, capping months of speculation about the company’s expansion plans in the region. Read More

Microsoft set for new round of job cuts next week, spanning Xbox, sales and consulting

Microsoft is preparing another round of layoffs, spanning Xbox, sales and consulting, as it holds down operating costs while pouring more than $100 billion into AI infrastructure. Read More

Mary Jo Foley: What’s a consumer-focused outsider doing at the helm of Microsoft’s AI push?

Jacob Andreou, a former Snap and Greylock executive, is leading Microsoft’s effort to turn Copilot into a ‘Super App’ that bridges consumer and enterprise AI. But Microsoft hasn’t had much luck with that kind of unification before. Read More

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping, testing Amazon’s bet against ChatGPT and others

Adobe found that shoppers who reached retail sites through AI chatbots were 40% more likely to buy during Prime Day than those from search, email or social media — the first time AI-referred traffic converted best. Amazon has blocked rival shopping agents from its store while building its own assistant. Read More

Podcast

From the dot-com boom to AI security: F5 at 30, with CEO François Locoh-Donou

F5 has remade itself in every era of computing — from the early web to the cloud — and at 30 it’s doing it again. CEO François Locoh-Donou joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss the company’s evolution and its latest initiative: a platform for AI security. Read More

After hiring AWS exec and raising $107M seed round, Virginia startup plants flag in Seattle area

Virginia-based AI startup Trase is expanding its presence in the Seattle region, with plans to grow from about 20 employees… Read More

F5 expands further into AI security with SurePath AI acquisition

F5 is buying SurePath AI, a Denver startup that helps companies find the AI tools their own employees are using, and folding it into a growing lineup of AI security products. CEO François Locoh-Donou explained the strategy on this weekend’s GeekWire Podcast.
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Etzioni on AI: What the World Cup tells us about the best roles for humans and machines

The 2026 World Cup has added AI and computer vision to the officiating crew — a sensor inside the ball, semi-automated offside calls, and 16 tracking cameras per stadium. Oren Etzioni explains how the systems work, what they deliberately leave to human referees, and what it says about automation more broadly. Read More