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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO
— Emily Freeman, head of community for Amazon Web Services, is departing.
Amazon restructures seller fees to match its regional fulfillment strategy amid FTC lawsuit
Amazon will change the way it charges sellers who use its fulfillment services, introducing a new fee aligned with its regional hub strategy.
Walmart tech vet, AI2 research scientists are behind new Seattle startup Spiffy
A group of “LLM hipsters” are behind a new AI startup in Seattle emerging from stealth mode and aiming to rethink how retail companies engage with customers.
Uncommon Thinkers: UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare ‘creative brilliance’
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series profiling “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change.
Seattle startup Joon raises $6M to expand online mental health therapy for youth
Teletherapy startup Joon Care raised $6 million from investors to extend the company’s runway as it grows its mental health software platform.
With new Gemini model, Google tries to set a new standard in AI race vs. OpenAI and Microsoft
Google started to roll out its long-awaited Gemini multimodal artificial intelligence model Wednesday morning, touting its ability to natively process and reason across different inputs like text, images, video, and code.
Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers
Seattle Children’s is spinning out BrainChild Bio, a biotech startup tackling cancer in the central nervous system with an initial focus on treatments for children.
Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public
No VC, no problem. Airship AI, an under-the-radar tech startup that didn’t raise a single dime of investment, will soon become a publicly traded company after clearing SEC regulations this week for its SPAC deal.
‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood
Conference attendees in Las Vegas are accustomed to encountering people standing on the street, aggressively trying to hand them flyers for, well, let’s just say for a variety of different services.
Seattle-based health software company Valant sold to another private equity firm
Valant Medical Solutions, a Seattle startup that develops software to help behavioral health practitioners manage billing and electronic medical records at their offices, has been sold to Resurgens Technology Partners, a private equity firm based in Atlanta.
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