‘Seattle’s answer to YC Demo Day’: 25 startups pitch investors from across the country at AI House

AI House brought investors from Boston, New York, Colorado, the Bay Area and other cities to Seattle for a demo day where 25 ...

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Tech Moves: Microsoft AI exec joins Niantic Spatial; Allen fund names first investment chief; Zillow AI leader heads to Stripe

Niantic Spatial hired Microsoft AI product leader Dave Citron as chief product officer, the late Paul Allen's Fund for ...

AI Breakthrough Awards 2026: Meet the Companies Turning Agentic AI Into Real-World Results

UiPath and GeekWire recognize 21 organizations for breakthrough achievements in AI-powered automation, announced live at FUSION in Las Vegas. Read More ...

Alaska Air sustainability director lays out strategy for low-carbon flying at Climate Week NYC

Speaking at Climate Week NYC, Alaska Air Group sustainability chief Ryan Spies outlined how thin margins and complex physics ...

Tech vet takes a fresh swing at the country club with a golf and social hub in old Seattle industrial space

Shankar Sundaram, a former Boeing engineer and enterprise sales leader, said the ultimate goal of East West Club is to create ...

Seattle startup Row Zero acquired by Databricks to bring enterprise spreadsheets to AI platform

Founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers Breck Fresen and Nick End, Row Zero set out to build a spreadsheet ...

Amazon will let sellers manage Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok sales from their Amazon dashboards

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon's VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, speaks Tuesday morning at Amazon Accelerate at ...

Startup Spotlight: Marketing vets launch Kompeld to measure if a company’s story is actually working

Kompeld analyzes how companies describe themselves and scores their messaging. It looks at websites, sales materials and other company communications to identify what's clear, what's not, and where ...

Artists, game designers and producers hit hard as Microsoft cuts 277 jobs in Washington state

A new state filing lists all 277 positions Microsoft eliminated in the Seattle region, one job title at a time. Art, game ...

Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude

Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from ...

Amazon’s fight with Meta: Who owns the customer relationship when an agent does the buying?

Amazon's decision to block Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its site raises questions about whether the big platforms ...