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Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down the news from Microsoft Build from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft’s push to rely less on OpenAI and Anthropic, and the mounting pressure on GitHub. Read More

The big AI labs are eating the startup playbook — here’s where founders can still compete

Startup founders used to worry that tech giants would make their product obsolete. Now it’s even trickier: AI labs are not only encroaching on startup turf, they’re also offering tools for customers to attempt DIY solutions of their own. But there are approaches that work, and niches to be found, according to speakers and panelists at the Tech Alliance Seattle Investor Summit+Showcase this week. Read More

Tech Moves: Salesforce names president; Microsoft execs coming and going; Amazon departures

A pair of Microsoft security executives are on the move — one headed to Salesforce, one returning to fill the vacancy. Meanwhile, two Amazon veterans are calling it quits at the company. 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

Tech Moves: Amazon’s healthcare business gets new leader; Scott McFarlane leaves helm of Avalara

Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services, is leaving his post after five years — capping a 15-year tenure at the tech giant as Dr. Roy Schoenberg steps into the role. Scott McFarlane, who co-founded Avalara 22 years ago on Bainbridge Island, Wash., is resigning as CEO and moving to an advisory role. Read More

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How ‘Lean Startup’ author Eric Ries redefines profit in his new book

“Lean Startup” author Eric Ries discusses his new book “Incorruptible” and his new definition of profit on this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded behind the scenes at Seattle Flow Startup Day. Read More

Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal

Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon’s custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More

Amazon offers its AI shopping tech to outside retailers in new phase of agentic commerce race

AWS is releasing the Agentic Shopping Assistant, a tool that lets retailers build AI shopping experiences using the same technology behind Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, which drove nearly $12 billion in incremental sales last year. 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

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 filing that its Redmond, Wash., facility produces approximately 70 Starlink satellites per week, putting hard production numbers on the operation for the first time. The filing also reveals Starlink’s financials and names several Pacific Northwest companies as competitors. Read More

Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption

Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin, founder Rich Barton, chairman Barry Diller, and former CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tell the story of Expedia’s 30-year evolution from a small project inside Microsoft to a global travel conglomerate navigating the age of AI agents. Read More

AWS veteran Matt Wood returns to cloud giant in new role: chief AI and technology officer

Matt Wood, who spent more than 14 years helping to lead Amazon Web Services’ artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives… Read More

Etzioni on AI: Don’t let the OpenAI soap opera hide the precedent

Computer scientist and AI industry veteran Oren Etzioni argues that OpenAI’s nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion sets a dangerous precedent for American charity law, and that the real reckoning will have to come from Washington, not the Oakland courtroom. Read More

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What we learned about Microsoft in the OpenAI trial, and is Seattle squandering its edge?

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: As the Musk v. OpenAI trial heads to the jury, we dig into what… Read More

Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

Microsoft’s new vulnerability-scanning system, codenamed MDASH, scored 88.45% on the CyberGym benchmark, surpassing single-model systems from Anthropic and OpenAI by using more than 100 specialized AI agents across multiple models. Read More

Microsoft’s CTO testifies about email at the heart of Elon Musk’s allegations against the tech giant

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott publicly addressed for the first time a 2018 email that Musk’s lawyers have cited as evidence Microsoft knew OpenAI was abandoning its nonprofit mission. A confidential board memo filed in the case reveals how Microsoft’s fear of falling behind Google drove the investment. Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft AI leader jumps to OpenAI; former AI2 exec joins Meta; and more

A senior director of AI at Microsoft left to join OpenAI; a former AI2 leader has taken a role at Meta and other Pacific Northwest tech moves. Read More

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s stake in Helion Energy draws scrutiny in Musk trial and on Capitol Hill

Sam Altman faced pointed questions about his financial ties to the Everett, Wash., fusion startup during testimony in the Musk v. Altman trial, as Congress separately raised conflict-of-interest concerns. Read More

‘Strong, strong no’: New filing reveals who Microsoft favored — and opposed — for OpenAI’s board

Newly unredacted documents from the Musk v. Altman trial reveal the names Microsoft executives vetoed, endorsed, and suggested for OpenAI’s board during the November 2023 crisis around Sam Altman’s ouster as CEO. Read More

Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella was worried about Microsoft being ‘the next IBM’ in OpenAI deal

Satya Nadella testified for roughly two and a half hours in the Musk v. Altman trial in Oakland, revealing internal emails in which he worried about Microsoft’s dependence on OpenAI, and new details about his input regarding OpenAI’s board after the Altman firing. 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

Zillow Group leans into AI as revenue climbs 18% in flat housing market

Zillow Group’s first-quarter shareholder letter made the company’s strongest case yet for its transformation into an AI-powered real estate platform, citing AI-driven productivity gains, a new consumer search mode, and AI tools for agents and property managers. Revenue rose 18% to $708 million. Read More

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Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a Seattle VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal

The GeekWire Podcast goes inside the Elon Musk trial against OpenAI and Microsoft, breaks down blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Amazon, and tells the story of a tiny Seattle VC firm that hustled its way into a billion-dollar AI deal. Read More

OpenAI’s models land on Amazon Bedrock, one day after Microsoft exclusivity ends

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI’s new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI’s models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was freed from its previously exclusive cloud arrangement. Read More

AWS turns Amazon’s hiring and supply chain expertise into new AI products for other businesses

AWS is expanding line of Amazon Connect business apps into a suite of agentic AI products, including new tools for supply chain planning and high-volume hiring built on Amazon’s own operational experience and insights. Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Big AI deals meet a $200B spending binge

Amazon reports Q1 earnings Wednesday with a $244 billion cloud backlog and blockbuster deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but investors are watching whether the company’s $200 billion spending plan is starting to pay off. Read More

Inside the courthouse as Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft goes to trial

Amid the feud between two of tech’s most polarizing personalities, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, Microsoft might seem like a subplot, but its actions are at the heart of the case. We’re at the courthouse in Oakland as jury selection begins. Read More

Microsoft and OpenAI revamp partnership, with trial in Elon Musk suit set to begin

Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership Monday, making Microsoft’s IP license non-exclusive and opening all OpenAI products to any cloud provider. It came just as jury selection began in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman, and Microsoft. Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: After a $357B wipeout, tech giant gets another chance

Microsoft reports fiscal Q3 results Wednesday. Here’s a preview of the key numbers, storylines, and context heading into the report, including Azure growth expectations, Copilot adoption, capital spending, and the organizational changes reshaping the company. 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