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KIRO

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

Podcast

Zuckerberg’s yacht, Meta’s layoffs, a robot pizza flameout, and a reality check on AI expenses

On this week’s GeekWire Podcast: Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses nearly 1,400 local layoffs, robot pizza startup Picnic shuts down and sells its assets to a mystery buyer, and companies grapple with the rising cost of corporate AI. Read More

AWS targets AI slop with new spec check in Kiro coding tool, amid scrutiny of agent reliability

Amazon Web Services is adding a feature to its Kiro AI coding tool that uses mathematical proofs to check whether software requirements contradict each other or leave gaps before AI agents start writing code. Read More

Microsoft exec Shawn Bice returns to AWS to lead reliability push for AI agents

Shawn Bice, who left AWS for Microsoft’s security organization in 2022, is returning to Amazon as VP of AI Services to lead the Automated Reasoning Group under Swami Sivasubramanian’s Agentic AI organization. Read More

Podcast

How AI is changing the business and art of video — from ‘chaos machine’ to creative catalyst

Seattle creative studio leaders Brice Budke and Zeek Earl discuss how AI is transforming video production — and what still requires human creativity, taste, and intuition. Read More

Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages

Amazon issued an unusually pointed rebuttal to a Financial Times report that its AI coding tools caused AWS outages, calling one key claim “entirely false.” Read More

Amazon unveils ‘frontier agents,’ new chips and private ‘AI factories’ in AWS re:Invent rollout

LAS VEGAS — Amazon is pitching a future where AI works while humans sleep, announcing a collection of what it calls “frontier agents” capable of handling complex, multi-day projects without needing a human to be constantly involved. Read More

Amazon’s surprise indie hit: Kiro launches broadly in bid to reshape AI-powered software development

Amazon’s Kiro development tool is launching broadly with new features and a unique branding strategy, as the company pushes deeper into the booming market for AI-assisted software development. Read More

Amazon links Nova Act, its AI agent creator, to VS Code, Cursor and Kiro

Amazon introduced a Nova Act extension that brings its AI agent toolkit directly into code editors such as Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Kiro, aiming to speed development and cut down on context-switching. Read More

Amazon targets vibe-coding chaos with new ‘Kiro’ AI software development tool

A new AI coding tool from Amazon uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints, aiming… Read More

GeekWire Meetup & Radio Show is Thursday night: What to know if you’re going

In case you haven’t heard, GeekWire is trying a new experiment at our meetup Thursday evening: It will be the… Read More

Pitch an ‘App of the Week’ for the live GeekWire radio show

We’re gearing up for our GeekWire Meetup & Radio Show, the evening of April 11 in Seattle — the first… Read More

Podcast

First time: See the GeekWire Radio Show live on stage

One of the best parts our job each week is putting together the GeekWire radio show. The show airs every… Read More

No Google Glasses allowed, declares Seattle dive bar

Google’s high-tech augmented reality “Project Glass” spectacles are still in development, and not available for purchase. But Seattle’s 5 Point… Read More

Seattle’s social media queen Jenni Hogan leaving KIRO

Seattle’s social media queen is leaving KIRO and dreaming big. Jenni Hogan, the KIRO 7 traffic anchor and Seattle’s popular… Read More

Jenni Hogan’s social TV experiment: What we learned

Like many of you in the Seattle region, I stayed up past bedtime last night (well, it was past my… Read More

Podcast

Introducing … GeekWire Radio

John and I first started podcasting more than a year ago, using some cheap USB headsets, after deciding on a… Read More

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