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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

‘Digit’ maker Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B deal — here’s what the filings say about its finances

Salem, Ore.-based Agility Robotics, whose two-legged Digit robots have been tested inside Amazon warehouses, is set to become the first publicly traded U.S. company dedicated solely to humanoid robots, beating its Silicon Valley and East Coast rivals to Wall Street. Read More

Building a ‘digital twin’ 10,000 feet underground: PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo team up on geothermal AI

As tech giants hunt for massive amounts of clean electricity, PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo Energy are partnering to develop a new public tool that aims to eliminate the guesswork of drilling into the Earth’s molten depths. Read More

Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to lead new $10B AI data center venture

Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to the world of cloud infrastructure as co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched company backed by more than $10 billion. Read More

Etzioni on AI: The Virgin Unicorns

Twelve AI labs have raised more than $29 billion at a combined valuation approaching $130 billion, without shipping anything a customer can buy. Oren Etzioni examines what history says about how this story ends. Read More

Allen Institute for AI launches big computing cluster for $152M project backed by Nvidia and NSF

Ai2 says it has started using a new Nvidia-powered computing system funded through a $152 million NSF and Nvidia project to build open AI models for scientific research. The milestone comes as the Seattle nonprofit works to regain its footing after losing key researchers to Microsoft. Read More

XBOW, the unicorn with a Seattle mailbox, raises another $35M for its autonomous hacking platform

XBOW, the cybersecurity startup founded by GitHub Copilot creator Oege de Moor, added $35M from NVIDIA, Samsung, SentinelOne, and others, bringing its Series C to $155M. The billion-dollar company lists Seattle as its HQ — but its address is a mailbox at a Pioneer Square coworking space, and its founder lives in Malta. Read More

How a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startup

Flying Fish Partners, a Seattle-based VC firm with less than $250 million under management, broke into the $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from AlphaGo creator David Silver. Here’s how they got in. Read More

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to use Amazon’s Graviton chips for agentic AI

Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 processor cores for agentic AI workloads, the latest major customer win for Amazon’s growing custom silicon business. Read More

Backed by Nvidia, Seattle’s Phaidra targets data center overheating with proactive AI

Phaidra, a startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, this week announced key collaborations with Nvidia, CoreWeave and Applied Digital. Read More

Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down as nonprofit navigates shifting AI landscape

Ali Farhadi is stepping down as the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), after a two-and-a-half-year tenure that brought growing recognition to the Seattle-based nonprofit research institute as a key player in the world of open source artificial intelligence. Read More

Tech Moves: Amperity and Siteimprove name CMOs; AWS director departs; Gong’s new exec

In the latest Pacific Northwest tech moves, Amperity and Siteimprove name CMOs; an AWS security director departs; and Elizabeth Scallon goes to Nvidia. Read More

Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip, claiming performance edge over Amazon and Google

Microsoft says its new Maia 200 chip outperforms Amazon’s and Google’s latest AI silicon on key benchmarks. The chip is already running Copilot and GPT-5.2 in production. Read More

Starcloud co-founders Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden and Adi Oltean in white suits

Starcloud plans its next power plays after training first AI model in space

Space startup’s CEO talks about putting tens of thousands of satellites in orbit to serve as networked data centers — an effort that could become a multibillion-dollar business. Read More

30 years after Microsoft went ‘all-in’ on the internet, the tech giant’s AI strategy echoes the past

Thirty years after Bill Gates declared Microsoft was going “all-in” on the internet, echoes of that moment are resurfacing in the company’s sweeping AI push. The parallels — and the differences — reveal how Microsoft is navigating another era-defining shift. 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

What is an AI ‘superfactory’? Microsoft unveils new approach to building and linking data centers

Microsoft unveiled its first AI “superfactory,” linking data centers in Wisconsin and Atlanta through a high-speed fiber network. It will use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to train and run advanced AI models for key Microsoft partners such as OpenAI, and for Microsoft’s own internal models. 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

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

‘Digit’ maker Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B deal — here’s what the filings say about its finances

Building a ‘digital twin’ 10,000 feet underground: PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo team up on geothermal AI

Etzioni on AI: The Virgin Unicorns

Allen Institute for AI launches big computing cluster for $152M project backed by Nvidia and NSF

XBOW, the unicorn with a Seattle mailbox, raises another $35M for its autonomous hacking platform

How a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startup

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to use Amazon’s Graviton chips for agentic AI

Backed by Nvidia, Seattle’s Phaidra targets data center overheating with proactive AI

Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down as nonprofit navigates shifting AI landscape

Tech Moves: Amperity and Siteimprove name CMOs; AWS director departs; Gong’s new exec

Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip, claiming performance edge over Amazon and Google

Starcloud plans its next power plays after training first AI model in space

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

Tech Moves: Google VP departs; T-Mobile shakeup; Nvidia’s new product leader; and more

Photos: Inside the Allen Institute for AI’s new HQ in Seattle’s first mass-timber office building

Allen Institute for AI lands $152M from Nvidia and NSF to lead national AI project

Tech Moves: Icertis names new CEO as Samir Bodas steps down; Smartsheet adds security leader

UW prof Dieter Fox leaves Nvidia to lead robotics initiative at Allen Institute for AI

TerraPower lands $650M from NVIDIA’s investment fund, Bill Gates and others

Chip giant Nvidia acquires OctoAI, a Seattle startup that helps companies run AI models

Seattle pioneer in AI weather forecasting helps Nvidia create groundbreaking new prediction tool

NVIDIA invests in AI-powered weed zapping ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics

AI is boosting drug discovery and development — and sparking questions about proprietary data

Inside the AI chip race: How a pivotal happy hour changed Amazon’s strategy in the cloud