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GeekWire Mid-Week Update

Top stories so far this week

Amazon is laying off another 9,000 employees — read the CEO’s memo
Amazon is cutting 9,000 jobs over the next few weeks in its second round of layoffs over the past three months.
Poet vs. chatbot: We gave the same prompt to a human, Microsoft Bing, and OpenAI’s new GPT-4
Are robots more poetic than humans? That was my question as I saw Alandra Markman seated on the sidewalk with an old typewriter on a recent brisk Sunday morning at the West Seattle Farmers Market.
Amazon shutting down DPReview, a leading source of digital photography information
Amazon is shutting down Seattle-based DPReview, a leading online source for news and reviews about digital cameras and photography, the site’s general manager wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
Expedia Group lays off workers as part of ‘strategic actions’
Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group made an undisclosed number of layoffs.
Salesforce vets land $8M for employee access management startup
A longtime cybersecurity executive is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps enterprises monitor and adapt employee permissions.
Twitch cuts 400 jobs as part of Amazon’s latest layoffs
Twitch announced on Monday that it would lay off “just over 400 people,” part of a new round of layoffs at its parent company Amazon.
Microsoft subsidiary Nuance is using GPT-4 for a new physician notes app
Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for physicians.
Former oilfield engineers launch climate startup that uses ancient carbon-trapping technology
Myno Carbon‘s leader calls his team “committed climate warriors.” But it wasn’t always that way.
Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM
— Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems.
Bill Gates: AI breakthroughs are the biggest tech advance since the graphical user interface
One of the pivotal figures in the rise of the graphical user interface says he sees a similar revolution in the new age of artificial intelligence.
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