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Anthropic is adding more rocket fuel to its engine as the high-flying San Francisco startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform raised another $3.5 billion at a whopping $61.5 billion valuation.

The eponymous Seattle-based company behind the virtual hangout app Rec Room has cut 16% of its workforce.

Academy Awards host Conan O’Brien took a couple shots at Amazon and founder Jeff Bezos during the opening monologue of Sunday night’s ceremony.

Trent Green, the CEO of Amazon’s primary healthcare company, One Medical, is leaving to take a job as CEO of publicly traded National Research Corp., which does business as NRC Health.  Amazon informed One Medical employees of the news in an email Tuesday afternoon from Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, which was obtained by GeekWire.  Green, 53, was named CEO of One Medical in September 2023, about six months after Amazon closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the company.

Nectar Social is wielding the latest AI technologies to help brands reach consumers on social media platforms to create personal connections.

The finalists are locked in and the voting is open for the 2025 GeekWire Awards!

A Seattle startup from AI2 Incubator is emerging from stealth with a $5 million seed round to automate basic business operations with gen AI.

Kara Swisher and guests discuss the Washington Post's storied history, question Jeff Bezos' motives as its owner, and ask what it would take to "save" the paper from him.

Frazier Life Sciences launched Callio Therapeutics, a cancer startup headquartered in Seattle and Singapore. Frazier led Callio's $187 million Series A round.

New leadership at Seattle-area companies including Starbucks, Avanade, Tune Therapeutics, Umoja Biopharma, Siteimprove and others.

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