Industrial cybersecurity startup opens Seattle office | OpenAI taps AWS leader to lead new Japan office 

Tech Moves: Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Tadao Nagasaki joins OpenAI to lead its new Tokyo office; Fixie.ai co-founder Matt Welsh is working on a stealthy new startup; and more key personnel changes. 

A quartet of early Facebook engineers are leading Data Tech Fund, a Seattle-based investment firm that is backing startups across various industries that leverage proprietary data and AI. Read more.

Interview with AWS CTO: Werner Vogels joins us on the latest episode of the GeekWire Podcast to talk about the evolution of AI, its promise in healthcare and the environment, his broader tech predictions for the year, and one of his most iconic traditions at Amazon’s annual cloud conference. Read highlights and listen here.

Hot Links

• U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell is spearheading an online privacy law — after years of reportedly stymying similar efforts. (The Washington Post)

• Amazon has more than 17,000 EV chargers at about 120 warehouses around the U.S., making it the country's largest operator of private charging infrastructure. (Bloomberg)

• Amazon went to great lengths to try and replicate the success of top items sold at Trader Joe’s — highlighting the company’s push to “dominate everything.” (The Wall Street Journal)  

• Some say Microsoft’s entrenchment within the public sector IT market has allowed the company to avoid accountability for government-related cybersecurity incidents. (Wired)

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