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The Bellevue-based defense tech startup, co-founded by a former Marine special operations officer and two longtime Microsoft engineering leaders, is building AI and simulation software to help military planners anticipate logistics needs.…
GeekWire ·UW’s Institute for Protein Design and Nvidia have released their first jointly developed AI model for creating proteins with specific jobs. The release follows a computing grant from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's foundation that IPD director…
GeekWire ·Amazon's TorchNeuron software runs code written in PyTorch, the open-source framework used by many AI developers, on its Trainium chips after a basic configuration change. Amazon is opening it to all developers as a public beta and…
GeekWire ·New features in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception will assess each agent's risk, with the ability to block it from making changes, require human intervention or shut it down. Read More
GeekWire ·Amazon's Bee devices can now turn things you say into shopping suggestions, Booking Holdings is launching an Seattle-based AI travel venture called Vayo, and four of LinkedIn's top 10 Seattle startups aren't based in the region. Plus, we…
GeekWire ·Jeff Williams, now chief information security officer at Sigma360, says the consent prompt and indicator light on Amazon's Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse reach the wearer, not the people being recorded. Amazon pointed to safeguards including…
GeekWire ·Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld define more than 35 phrases of the AI era, from AI slop and deepfakes to bragawatts and P(doom), and coin a few of their own, including AI slap, promptatory and agentsomnia. Read More
GeekWire ·Darko Mesaros, a distinguished developer advocate at AWS, has packed his Maple Valley, Wash., home with more than 1,000 pieces of vintage computing history — and the tattooed tech geek is repairing old machines and wiring them to chat with…
GeekWire ·Amazon is using AI and AWS chips to rebuild NBA plays in 3D for its second season of "NBA on Prime," which debuts next week and also adds Yahoo fantasy stats and its first exclusive Eastern Conference Finals coverage. Read More
GeekWire ·Zeacon uses AI to personalize website content, analyze visitor behavior and identify bot traffic, helping businesses understand what turns website visits into sales. Read More
GeekWire ·Bee, the AI wearables startup Amazon acquired last year, will turn products people mention in everyday conversations into shopping suggestions on Amazon.com for users who opt in and subscribe to Bee Pro. Amazon also unveiled two new Bee…
GeekWire ·Led by Nobel laureate David Baker, researchers at UW Medicine's Institute for Protein Design have used AI to engineer reusable molecular "scissors" capable of repeatedly destroying target proteins linked to diseases like Alzheimer's and…
GeekWire ·Former AWS tech leaders Jay Allen and Vik Korrapati, Moondream’s co-founders, will lead inference work at Prime Intellect, the $1 billion AI cloud company. Prime Intellect is buying the startup largely for its technology for making AI…
GeekWire ·Booking Holdings is launching a new Seattle-based travel startup called Vayo, led by serial entrepreneur Mike Fridgen, betting that AI agents built for travel can do a better job of planning and managing trips than general-purpose…
GeekWire ·The deal announced Wednesday brings together Humanly's automated chat and interview systems with CareerArc's social media recruiting and career-site mapping platforms. Read More
GeekWire ·Freightmate, an AI startup co-founded by two ex-Flexport employees, settled Flexport's trade secrets suit. The founders acknowledged acquiring about 2,000 confidential Flexport shipping documents and using some, but denied their product…
GeekWire ·Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for around $7 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. The startup makes software that helps AI models run faster on different kinds of chips, including Amazon's Trainium, and has already worked with AWS…
GeekWire ·Nicolas Cage is drawing a hard line in the digital sand against artificial intelligence, revealing that he likely won’t work with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for his now-canceled Prime Video series "Spider-Noir." Read…
GeekWire ·Microsoft says its homegrown Maia chips will handle most of the AI work behind Copilot and its other products, with the new Maia 300 rolling out in 2027. The company says the new chip does more AI work with the same amount of electricity…
GeekWire ·Oren Etzioni and MIT professor Max Tegmark debated AI risks in a New York Post video, splitting over whether this summer's OpenAI sandbox breakout was rogue AI or human error. They agreed that corporate self-regulation won't work and that…
GeekWire ·We recorded this week’s GeekWire Podcast at Front Burner Studios near Pike Place Market with co-owner Seth Paul, CEO of security startup Qinsay. We discussed Shield AI’s AI-piloted fighter jets, the White House crackdown on Microsoft, and…
GeekWire ·A considered approach to AI is necessary if we want teachers to make classroom-level decision rooted in student learning, three Central Washington University experts say.
Washington State Standard ·We’re entering a new world of cyber-attacks, and Washington isn’t ready, a technology expert says.
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