GeekWire gets biohacked: Fitness facility uses AI for exercise and recovery

Amazon One Medical CEO Trent Green is leaving to take a job as CEO of publicly traded National Research Corp., which does business as NRC Health. Amazon has not named a successor. Read more.

• In other Tech Moves: Former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom was named CFO at Fortive, the Everett, Wash.-based manufacturing conglomerate.

Microsoft unveiled two new AI agents for sales, ramping up its rivalry with Salesforce. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the Sales Chat tool changes his workflow when prepping for customer meetings. Read more.

• Salesforce announced its own updates to Agentforce, dubbed "2dx.”

Microsoft@50: Microsoft President Brad Smith, former CEO Steve Ballmer, and former CTO Nathan Myhrvold will headline GeekWire’s March 20 event at Town Hall Seattle, marking the company’s milestone anniversary. Read more and grab tickets to join us at this special event. 

Fresh out of the AI2 Incubator in Seattle, Caddi raised a $5 million seed round to scale its "automation by demonstration" technology, which learns from user-recorded workflows and converts them into automated processes. Read more.

Anthropic, now valued at $61.5 billion after its latest funding round, has about 40 employees working out of an office in the Seattle region, including several key execs. Read more.

Assessing AI marketing tactics: Seattle-based data scientist Ryan Sloan analyzed public-facing content from startups on the GeekWire 200 to learn more about how companies are using AI-related language to pitch products. Read more.

GeekWire Awards finalists revealed: Voting is now open across nine categories, from Startup of the Year to Workplace of the Year. Read more. 

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• The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority dropped its formal investigation into Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. (The Guardian)

• Amazon created a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS exec Swami Sivasubramanian. (Reuters)

• Microsoft detailed how Chinese hacking group Silk Typhoon is targeting remote management tools and cloud apps to spy on companies in the U.S. and abroad. (Bloomberg)

• DARPA’s new unmanned autonomous vessel is being built and tested in Washington state. (Naval News)

• A feeding robot developed by University of Washington computer scientists was tested outside the lab for the first time. (UW News)

• Smartsheet detailed some of its newer AI tools meant to boost productivity and efficiency within its work management software. (Smartsheet)