StitcherAI, founded by a pair of Seattle enterprise tech veterans, launched Tuesday with $3 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that pushes cost data into the tools where spending decisions are made, rather than relying on traditional dashboards. Read More
Talairis Law Group is built around the idea that AI can handle much of the work that associates at big law firms have traditionally done — and that startups shouldn’t have to pay big law prices for it. Read More
Seattle-based mpathic released mPACT, a clinician-led benchmark that evaluates how leading AI models handle conversations involving suicide risk, eating disorders, and misinformation. Read More
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
Speakers at the Women in Tech Regatta in Seattle said AI is at risk of repeating longstanding patterns of exclusion, from biased hiring tools to gaps in who’s shaping AI strategy. Read More
Niantic Spatial, the company spun out of Pokémon GO maker Niantic, is launching a revamped version of its Scaniverse platform and a new global visual positioning system, in its biggest release since becoming an independent company last year. Read More
The Allen Institute for AI is releasing MolmoWeb, an open-source web agent that navigates browsers by interpreting screenshots, offering a transparent alternative to closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Read More
The new report from CoworkingCafe puts Seattle behind San Jose, Calif., (Silicon Valley) and New York City. San Francisco and Dallas round out the top five. Read More
Microsoft is reorganizing its Copilot organization, unifying its consumer and commercial AI efforts under former Snap executive Jacob Andreou while narrowing the role of Microsoft AI leader Mustafa Suleyman to focus on superintelligence and frontier models. Read More
Five months after releasing its “responsible AI plan” providing guidelines for the technology’s use, the City of Seattle has tapped the brakes on artificial intelligence. Read More
Ali Farhadi is stepping down as the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), after a two-and-a-half-year tenure that brought growing recognition to the Seattle-based nonprofit research institute as a key player in the world of open source artificial intelligence. Read More
Karim Meghji, the new president and CEO of Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org, discusses how students can move from basic AI literacy to true fluency no matter what their career path looks like. Read More
A group of AI researchers, founders, and investors argue that higher taxes on high earners and investment gains would push top talent and future startups elsewhere at a critical moment in tech. Read More
Amazon’s $50 billion OpenAI investment made big headlines, but the SEC filings tell a more complicated story. Here’s how the money flows, what triggers the payments, and what the companies are keeping secret. Read More
“We think they’ll be one of the big winners in AI, we can help them grow, and we believe we’ll earn a strong return for Amazon over the long term,” said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Read More
Read AI CEO David Shim framed the launch as an evolution from “AI assistant” to something closer to a software colleague that can act on your behalf. Read More
The company is positioning itself as an answer to a growing shortage of skilled workers with expertise to maintain complicated industrial equipment. Read More
“There is a massive platform shift happening,” Temporal CEO Samar Abbas told GeekWire. “And there is a whole layer of infrastructure being developed right now.” Read More
Expedia is responding to the AI era by making sure it’s testing new ways to reach travelers — and also using it aggressively inside its own business. Read More
The idea behind Prom is to turn AI prompts — the instructions people give AI tools like ChatGPT — into something you can deploy, share, remix, and discover. Read More
The company revealed more details about its “operational intelligence platform” for contact centers — the massive customer service operations that companies across healthcare, travel, and financial services rely on to handle millions of interactions. Read More
Washington school districts gathered at Microsoft to launch AI projects in education, backed by grants from Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. National research presented at the event showed that even the most ambitious districts are struggling to measure whether AI is making a difference. Read More
Elon Musk’s xAI is setting up shop in downtown Bellevue, with job listings showing the office will go beyond infrastructure to serve as a hub for core AI model development. Read More
Zillow built its brand by letting people window‑shop for homes and by generating advertising revenue from real estate agents. But now, as Zillow marks its 20th anniversary on Monday, its leaders are pushing toward something bigger. Read More
Amazon is making Alexa+, its upgraded AI assistant, free for all U.S. Prime members starting today, including app and web-based chatbots. But with AI habits already ingrained around ChatGPT and other rivals, can Alexa+ catch up? Read More
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