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Jeff Bezos responded to the backlash over his decision to end presidential endorsements at The Washington Post, writing that there was “no quid pro quo of any kind” in the move, which reportedly cost his newspaper more than 200,000 digital subscribers. The Amazon founder did admit that when it comes to the appearance of conflict, he is “not an ideal owner” of the Post. Read more.

Microsoft earnings preview: Investors and analysts will be watching the tech giant’s results closely this week for the latest signs of customer demand for artificial intelligence, amid growing concern about the company’s outsized spending on the infrastructure needed to train and run massive AI models. Here are the key numbers to watch


Priyanka Kulkarni loved working at Microsoft,
but she always felt the itch to build something of her own. Yet when an opportunity to join Seattle’s AI2 Incubator arose, Kulkarni (above) faced a painstaking journey to apply for the right work visa. Now she’s using that experience to develop AI software that can shave weeks or even months off the visa application process. Read more.

Amazon is shutting down its Kindle Vella platform for serial and episodic stories and books in February 2025, acknowledging for the first time that the service, launched in 2021, didn’t live up to its expectations. Read more.

Moondream, a new Seattle startup led by former Amazon Web Services employees, raised $4.5 million to build out its “vision language model” used by customers in various industries. Read more.  


This “Stranger Things” property was turned upside down.
Seattle real estate startup Arrived Homes bought the Byers house, used for exterior shots on the popular Netflix series, and turned it into an Airbnb rental that fans of the show can own a share of. (Above: Bret Neuman, left, and Alejandro Chouza of Arrived Homes.) Read more.

Shares of Seattle-based application delivery giant F5 were up more than 10% after the company’s latest quarterly earnings report. F5 also announced a new CFO. Read more.

“We’re growing faster than we ever thought we would,” said Read AI CEO David Shim, as the Seattle startup raised $50 million to fuel its “copilot everywhere” vision for enterprise software. Read more.

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