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GeekWire
22 days
Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal
Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon's custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More
Seattle Weekly
22 days
Jury convicts Kent man of 17 felonies during robbery spree
A jury convicted a 26-year-old Kent man May 26 of 17 felonies related to a string of armed marijuana dispensary and bank robberies during a crime spree between December 2021 and June 2022 throughout the Puget Sound region.
GeekWire
22 days
Seattle teens to take on real-world ocean science challenges in underwater robotics championship
This year's tasks include mapping cold-water coral ecosystems, deploying ocean observatory instrumentation, modeling offshore wind turbines, and operating profiling floats beneath sea ice. Read More
GeekWire
22 days
CodeIntegrity raises $4.8M to put permanent guardrails on unpredictable AI agents
While companies rush to deploy autonomous AI tools, CodeIntegrity has raised new funding to build runtime guardrails needed to keep unpredictable models from leaking sensitive enterprise data. The startup's co-founders recently relocated from the Seattle area to San Francisco. Read More
GeekWire
22 days
Eli Lilly to acquire Seattle-area biotech in $1.5 billion bet on next-generation shingles vaccine
Eli Lilly agreed to acquire Bothell, Wash.-based Curevo Vaccine for up to $1.5 billion in cash. The deal centers on a next-generation shingles vaccine that reduced side effects by more than half in a Phase 2 study. Read More
GeekWire
22 days
Amazon offers its AI shopping tech to outside retailers in new phase of agentic commerce race
AWS is releasing the Agentic Shopping Assistant, a tool that lets retailers build AI shopping experiences using the same technology behind Amazon's Alexa for Shopping, which drove nearly $12 billion in incremental sales last year. Read More
GeekWire
23 days
Photos: Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta discloses 1,400 local job cuts
The Meta CEO's 387-foot Launchpad passed through the Ballard Locks toward Lake Union on Tuesday, the same day the company disclosed nearly 1,400 layoffs in Washington state. Read More
GeekWire
23 days
NASA taps Blue Origin to deliver lunar rovers for Moon Base initiative
Blue Moon lander will carry Astrolab and Lunar Outpost moon buggies, while Firefly will drop off NASA's rocket-powered drones. Read More
GeekWire
23 days
Etzioni on AI: The Pope can talk, but only we can walk
In a guest op-ed, AI researcher and UW professor emeritus Oren Etzioni responds to Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI, arguing that moral pronouncements — however eloquent — accomplish little unless people change their own behavior. Read More
GeekWire
23 days
Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp
A new state filing shows Meta is eliminating nearly 1,400 positions across its Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond offices, about 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring impacting 8,000 jobs. Read More
GeekWire
23 days
No dirt, no tractor, no problem: Canopii aims to tuck robotic farms into tennis court-sized urban spaces
Oregon startup Canopii is tackling the food supply system by launching automated, tennis court-sized greenhouse franchises that use robots to grow 40,000 pounds of greens a year. Read More
Phinney Wood
23 days
Sound Transit Board to Vote on Proposal Affecting Ballard Link Extension
The Sound Transit Board of Directors is scheduled to meet Thursday, May 28 at 1:30 PM to discuss and vote on a proposal that could significantly delay the Ballard Link […]