Salesforce rolls out Tableau AI feature in its flagship platform

Salesforce adopts Tableau’s AI: Five years after acquiring the Seattle-based data visualization company for $15.7 billion, Salesforce is rolling out one of its biggest Tableau integrations yet, offering the AI-powered “Tableau Pulse” feature in the core Salesforce customer relationship management platform. With the move, Tableau is “becoming more relevant to a larger audience,” Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay tells GeekWire. Read more.

Jelly Collective, the latest startup studio to surface in Seattle, is led by former longtime leaders at Amazon who are applying the tech giant’s principles to their new endeavor. “We are 100% customer and problem-obsessed,” said Jelly founder Stacy Saal. Read more.

Zonar Systems layoffs: The Seattle-based automotive fleet tech company laid off 57 workers as its parent company Continental considers a restructuring effort. Read more.

Tech Moves: Avanade CEO Pamela Maynard is headed to Microsoft; Seattle gaming vet Jordan Weisman launched a new project; and more personnel changes. 

Today’s trending story: A federal judge in Seattle has sided with Boeing and is throwing out a jury verdict that called for the aerospace giant to pay $72 million to Zunum Aero, a Seattle-area aviation startup it once supported. Read more.

Hot Links:

• Four sustainable aviation projects in Washington state received more than $36 million in grant funding. (Sen. Maria Cantwell)

• Microsoft is previewing a way to make file sharing between Windows PCs and Android devices more like using Apple’s Airdrop feature. (ZDNet)

• “Share data or die”: That is the difficult and potentially existential question facing site publishers deciding whether or not to block Google’s AI bot. (Bloomberg)

• Seattle fintech startup Tapp Finance launched its first exchange-traded fund. (Yahoo Finance)