Articles about Claude

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Hack Northwest

Hack Northwest is a hands-on security and AI conference in downtown Tacoma. Four rooms run at the same time over… Read More

Event Calendar

Seattle AI Week: Claude Impact Lab Hackathon

Kicking off Seattle AI Week, the Claude Impact Lab Hackathon is a one-day build sprint focused on AI tools for… Read More

Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude

Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from Anthropic’s Claude or Amazon’s own Quick assistant. Read More

Podcast

Bill Gates in his own words: How he’s using AI, and why he’s worried about the future

Bill Gates warned this week that the AI industry is crossing safety lines it set for itself, and that no one is preparing for what comes next. On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we play highlights from our interview with Gates about the essay, and debate his three proposals. Read More

‘I am very concerned’: Bill Gates says the world needs a plan to deal with AI, and he has three ideas to start

Bill Gates says the “turbulent AI era” has arrived, and the AI industry is crossing safety lines it once promised to respect. In a new essay and an interview with GeekWire, he lays out three ideas for managing what’s coming: new national and global institutions, a category of jobs reserved for humans, and a tax on AI and robots. Read More

Etzioni on AI: Become a power user

Oren Etzioni lays out 20 habits and settings that separate AI power users from everyone else, from letting AI interview you before it starts, to deciding once what it may never do on your behalf. Read More

Etzioni on AI: Claude is marking its text — Caveat Promptor!

Claude models launched on or after Aug. 2 embed an invisible mark in everything they write. It’s woven into the text itself, so it travels when you copy and paste. You didn’t opt in, you can’t see it, and you can’t turn it off. Here’s how it works, and what it means. Read More

Podcast

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

Podcast

Anthropic, Amazon, and the Fable shutdown; AI-powered school arrives; World Cup tech

Anthropic took its two newest AI models offline to comply with a U.S. order, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly among those who raised the concerns behind it. The GeekWire Podcast also digs into agentic AI’s effect on Amazon’s culture, an AI-driven school opening near Seattle, and the sensor-packed World Cup ball. Read More

Microsoft unveils seven homegrown AI models in new bid for ‘long term self-sufficiency’

Microsoft used its Build conference to unveil seven in-house AI models, including a reasoning model it says draws even with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 — part of a push to depend less on the AI partners it has invested billions in. Read More

Leading AI chatbots avoid harm but fall short in high-risk conversations, startup’s new benchmark finds

Seattle-based mpathic released mPACT, a clinician-led benchmark that evaluates how leading AI models handle conversations involving suicide risk, eating disorders, and misinformation. Read More

Expedia Group sees reward and risk in the rise of AI-powered travel

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin detailed the company’s AI strategy on its Q1 earnings call, describing booking integrations with ChatGPT and Claude, AI-powered customer support, and rising compute costs funded by cuts elsewhere. Read More

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $25B investment, mirroring its OpenAI cloud deal

Two months after investing $50 billion in OpenAI and striking a $100 billion cloud deal, Amazon announced a similar arrangement with its original AI partner, Anthropic: up to $25 billion in new investment and a $100 billion-plus commitment to AWS over 10 years. Read More

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

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

GPT drafts, Claude critiques: Microsoft blends rival AI models in new Copilot upgrade

Microsoft is using Anthropic’s Claude to fact-check work done by OpenAI’s GPT inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, blending its new and old AI partnerships as it tries to accelerate adoption of its AI assistant for business. Read More

Podcast

Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after… Read More

Microsoft’s brief in Anthropic case shows new alliance and willingness to challenge Trump administration

Microsoft filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Department of War, urging a judge to block the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation. The move reflects the companies’ growing alliance and Microsoft’s history of taking on Washington, D.C. Read More

Amazon launches AI-generated ‘canvas’ for sellers as e-commerce platforms race to add AI tools

Amazon is rolling out a “dynamic canvas” in Seller Central that generates personalized visual dashboards in response to seller prompts, building on its existing AI-powered Seller Assistant. The feature launches as Shopify, Walmart and others race to add AI to their merchant tools. Read More

Anthropic acquires Vercept in early exit for one of Seattle’s standout AI startups

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

Microsoft to invest $5B in Anthropic, as Claude maker commits $30B to Azure in new Nvidia alliance

The frenzy of AI deals and cloud partnerships reached another zenith Tuesday morning as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic announced a surprise alliance that includes a $5 billion investment by Microsoft in Anthropic — which, in turn, committed to spend at least $30 billion on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Read More

OpenAI’s $38B cloud deal with Amazon takes ChatGPT maker further beyond Microsoft

In a major expansion of its cloud partnerships, OpenAI signed a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services to train and run future AI models, reflecting both the scale of the AI boom and the increasingly complex ties among the industry’s biggest players. Read More

Claude

Hack Northwest

Seattle AI Week: Claude Impact Lab Hackathon

Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude

Bill Gates in his own words: How he’s using AI, and why he’s worried about the future

‘I am very concerned’: Bill Gates says the world needs a plan to deal with AI, and he has three ideas to start

Etzioni on AI: Become a power user

Etzioni on AI: Claude is marking its text — Caveat Promptor!

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

Anthropic, Amazon, and the Fable shutdown; AI-powered school arrives; World Cup tech

Microsoft unveils seven homegrown AI models in new bid for ‘long term self-sufficiency’

Leading AI chatbots avoid harm but fall short in high-risk conversations, startup’s new benchmark finds

Expedia Group sees reward and risk in the rise of AI-powered travel

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

GPT drafts, Claude critiques: Microsoft blends rival AI models in new Copilot upgrade

Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

Microsoft’s brief in Anthropic case shows new alliance and willingness to challenge Trump administration

Amazon launches AI-generated ‘canvas’ for sellers as e-commerce platforms race to add AI tools

Anthropic acquires Vercept in early exit for one of Seattle’s standout AI startups

Microsoft to invest $5B in Anthropic, as Claude maker commits $30B to Azure in new Nvidia alliance

OpenAI’s $38B cloud deal with Amazon takes ChatGPT maker further beyond Microsoft

Microsoft expands AI roster with Anthropic and xAI integrations, looking beyond OpenAI alliance

Amazon doubles total Anthropic investment to $8B, deepens AI partnership with Claude maker

Claude meets Alexa: Amazon will reportedly use Anthropic’s AI to help power its voice assistant

AI puzzler: Which chatbot is smart enough to figure out the year of this vintage concert poster?

Anthropic courts Claude AI users (and devs?) with billboard across the street from Meta in Seattle