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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.

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

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

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Microsoft announced two new AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.

Physician-scientist Chetan Seshadri wasn’t planning to speak at Stand Up for Science in Seattle, one of more than 30 rallies held across the U.S.

Amazon and its wide network of third-party retail partners could be disrupted by President Trump’s additional tariffs on goods from China.

Phil Molyneux is no longer CEO of Rad Power Bikes, more than two years after the former Sony president took over the Seattle-based e-bike maker.

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.

As artificial intelligence has rapidly grown into something that can make us better at our jobs, there’s ongoing debate over whether we should be using AI to actually land those jobs.

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

American Express announced Thursday that it plans to acquire Center, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that helps businesses manage expenses.

Artificial intelligence is already doing some heavy lifting for us at work.

University of Washington students won the grand prize at the UW's Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge for their jaundice-detecting technology.

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.

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