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A new sci-fi thriller from enterprise technology veteran and Ai2 board chair Bill Hilf imagines an AI built on living biology that escapes human control. Underneath the plot: an argument that the industry is thinking about AI the wrong way. Read More
Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard shook up the company’s senior leadership team on Friday at its dual headquarters in downtown Seattle and Provo, Utah, less than three months after taking the helm of the experience management technology company. Read More
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
Mikaela Kiner's "The Reverb Way" draws on 15 years at Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks and a decade running her own firm to offer practical advice for founders and business owners, while being honest about the personal struggles, health challenges, and hard lessons along the way. Read More
A strategic memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty lays out the division's vision, including a new internal metric, a name change, and plans to reevaluate game exclusivity and AI. Read More
Someone misused Rec Room's friend-finder feature to match phone numbers to the user names of hundreds of thousands of players on the social gaming platform — assembling a database that connects their online identities directly to their real-world contact information. Read More
TerraPower is officially moving dirt on its facility in Wyoming, making it the first company in the U.S. to break ground on a next-generation nuclear plant. Read More
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer responds to Chris DeVore's recent call for Democrats to embrace capitalism, arguing that the real question isn't whether to support free markets but which version of capitalism America should be building. Read More
Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year history, giving thousands of long-serving U.S. employees a chance to leave with a financial payout and extended healthcare as it works to control costs amid a massive buildup in AI infrastructure. Read Mo
Seattle startup Iridius, founded by former Microsoft and AWS leaders, is building software that embeds regulatory compliance into AI systems as they run. Accenture is both an investor and a strategic partner. Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy added AWS infrastructure leader Prasad Kalyanaraman to the company's S-team and promoted Dave Brown to senior vice president, according to an internal memo viewed by GeekWire. Read More
LinkedIn COO Daniel Shapero is the company's new CEO, reporting to Ryan Roslansky, who oversees LinkedIn and Microsoft Office. Roslansky also named Mohak Shroff as president of platforms and digital work as the company scales its leadership around AI. Read More
From a Bill Gates-backed startup in the mid '90s to the Nobel stage in 2025, Fred Ramsdell reveals how "patient capital" and a mutation found in a 1940s mouse helped unlock immune system secrets. Read More
Seattle's Office of Labor Standards released its first report analyzing data from the five largest delivery platforms, finding that worker pay increased and order volume grew under the city's gig worker minimum payment ordinance. DoorDash and outside researchers have reached different conclusions. R
Brev, a startup with roots in Seattle's tech scene, has raised $3.3 million in pre-seed funding for AI tools that automatically track how companies are performing against their goals. The company's AI agents join meetings, update goals, flag risks, and track follow-through on action items. Read More
Kameirah Johnson, a senior at Seattle's Lakeside School, is one of five students nationwide whose artwork will appear on the Google homepage later this month. Read More
Starbucks is laying off workers in its technology organization as new CTO Anand Varadarajan, who joined from Amazon in January, restructures the team. The cuts come amid a broader turnaround effort under CEO Brian Niccol. Read More
Microsoft is dropping Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, but future Call of Duty games will no longer be available at launch. It's the first significant move by new gaming CEO Asha Sharma. Read More
