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Protesters dressed as rogue AI agents target OpenAI in Bellevue with balloons and hot pink vests
Protesters dressed as rogue AI agents target OpenAI in Bellevue with balloons and hot pink vests GeekWire
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Etzioni on AI: Claude is marking its text — Caveat Promptor!
Etzioni on AI: Claude is marking its text — Caveat Promptor! GeekWire
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Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September — Microsoft is starting the…
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Ex-Meta AI research director raises $10.25M from Trilogy and Madrona for stealth physical AI startup
Ex-Meta AI research director raises $10.25M from Trilogy and Madrona for stealth physical AI startup GeekWire
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SpaceX reports Q2 revenue from connectivity, which includes Starlink, up 66% YoY to $4.29B vs. $3.83B est., Starlink subscribers up 100% to 12M vs. 12.19M est. (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: SpaceX reports Q2 revenue from connectivity, which includes Starlink, up 66% YoY to $4.29B vs. $3.83B est., Starlink subscribers up 100% to 12M vs. 12.19M est. — The satellites rolling off…
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Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 — The number of product research and…
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Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona — Sunny Gupta has led two prior…
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Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M — Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker…
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Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered “Smartbadges” worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation — Augmodo, the Seattle…
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Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments — Microsoft is launching a…
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Anthropic expands in Seattle as AI boom offers hope for struggling office market
Anthropic expands in Seattle as AI boom offers hope for struggling office market GeekWire
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Amazon MGM Studios drops film about Sam Altman months after tech giant's $50B OpenAI deal
Amazon MGM Studios drops film about Sam Altman months after tech giant's $50B OpenAI deal GeekWire
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AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more — Amazon Web Services is…
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Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic Fable concerns prior to U.S. order forcing models offline
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic Fable concerns prior to U.S. order forcing models offline GeekWire
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Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting — Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder who has…
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Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note: Agents of…
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Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, one of…
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S. "Soma" Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Somasegar, a fixture…
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Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defendants in landmark AI case
Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defendants in landmark AI case GeekWire
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Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark
Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark GeekWire