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Satya Nadella: Microsoft will never again get blindsided by OpenAI board if Sam Altman returns

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear in interviews Monday that the company wouldn't be opposed to Altman returning to OpenAI.

Microsoft emerges victorious from OpenAI meltdown with Sam Altman leading its new AI research team

Microsoft turned one of the most bizarre weekends in modern tech history into one of the most consequential for itself and perhaps the rest of the industry.

NanoString stock sinks nearly 50% after losing patent lawsuit case against 10x Genomics

Shares of Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company NanoString Technologies fell nearly 50% to an all-time low on Monday following its loss in a patent infringement case against 10x Genomics.

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Binance CEO pleads guilty in Seattle as federal prosecutors secure record $4.3B crypto penalty

The federal courthouse in Seattle was the scene of a pivotal event in the U.S.

Seattle passes new law that creates 10-cent per-order fee for app-based deliveries and services

Companies such as DoorDash and Grubhub will be required to pay a 10-cent per-order fee for online deliveries in Seattle starting in 2025, following the passage of a new law by the Seattle City Council on Tuesday.

Bill Gates offers his recommendations for what to read, watch and listen to during the holidays

Bill Gates is back with one of his seasonal traditions, offering three of the best books that he read in 2023 as recommendations for holiday gift givers.

Expanso, a distributed data processing startup led by Google and Microsoft vets, raises $7.5M

Seattle startup Expanso raised a $7.5 million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Hetz Ventures to fuel growth of its software that provides data infrastructure capabilities at the “edge.”

We watched — and shopped — Amazon’s first Black Friday NFL broadcast

I just experienced something completely new as a sports fan on Friday.

OpenAI taps Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO

Emmett Shear, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, has reportedly been named interim CEO at OpenAI, the latest turn in a wildly dramatic weekend for the ChatGPT-maker following the ouster of Sam Altman as CEO.

Seattle tech vet applies design, communications experience in seeking safer city streets

Drawing on his expertise in communications and human centered design, Seattle technology veteran Josh Holland is now working for Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, a nonprofit working to make city streets a safer place to walk, bike, and roll.

Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI is ‘a first essential step’ to stability, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says

OpenAI’s announcement last night that Sam Altman will return as CEO, under a newly formulated board, brings an apparent end to a wild ride that spotlighted OpenAI’s unusual corporate structure, and demonstrated Microsoft’s tenuous control over the situation despite its giant stake in the company.

Bezos Day 1 Families Fund awards $117M to help families experiencing homelessness

The Bezos Day 1 Families Fund announced $117 million in grants on Tuesday to organizations that aid families experiencing homelessness.

GeekWire Podcast: What’s next for Microsoft and OpenAI; Amazon car sales; disappearing unicorns

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we assess the outcome of the drama at OpenAI, considering what the removal and ultimate return of its CEO Sam Altman, and everything that happened in between, means for Microsoft.

Shift AI Podcast: Laying the bedrock for generative AI at Amazon with AWS VP Vasi Philomin

“AI has massive benefits for automating and streamlining more tedious, redundant, and time consuming tasks.

Uncommon Thinkers: For USAFacts’ Poppy MacDonald, ‘facts are paramount’ for democracy

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world.

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