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Booms, busts, and Seattle’s place in the AI era, with Jeff Shulman of the UW Foster School

UW professor Jeff Shulman joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Seattle’s role in the AI era, the city’s startup challenges, ...

Microsoft calls protest a ‘destructive’ act by outsiders; group alleges police brutality in arrests

Microsoft and protesters offered sharply conflicting accounts of a demonstration that led to 20 arrests on the company’s ...

Eyes, and AI, on the road: UW grad’s platform scans for pavement defects to speed repair, lower costs

Aatish Parson of Redmond, Wash., with the car he uses to drive around and scan roads for cracks and potholes with an ...

20 arrested at Microsoft headquarters in latest protest over Israel tech contracts

Eighteen people were arrested at Microsoft’s Redmond campus as protesters escalated their campaign against the company’s ...

Longtime Bungie CEO Pete Parsons steps down after more than two decades at ‘Destiny’ maker

Pete Parsons, the gaming industry veteran who has led Destiny maker Bungie for the past decade, announced Thursday he's ...

Seattle’s Allen Institute sends stem cells into orbit for historic heart and brain experiments

Seattle’s Allen Institute will play a key role in a groundbreaking space mission this weekend.  The Allen Institute for Cell ...

Despite status as a global tech hub, Seattle passengers still can’t hail a driverless ride

Despite early tests of robotaxis in Seattle, there are no near-term plans for driverless rides as Washington lacks ...

Tech Moves: Seattle Chamber CEO joins Washington Roundtable; Meta and F5 leaders depart

In Pacific Northwest tech moves, leaders at Meta and F5 depart for unknown new roles while Seattle Chamber's CEO leaves for ...

Amazon Autos now selling used Hertz vehicles, expanding inventory beyond Hyundai partnership

Beyond being a rental car company, Hertz is also a large used car dealer, selling thousands of vehicles each year. (Hertz ...

Tech Moves: Key AWS chip engineer to depart; former longtime Microsoft leaders take new roles

A key engineer developing processing chips for Amazon Web Services has reportedly left the company while former Microsoft ...

Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells

Microsoft adds a new Copilot function to Excel, letting users generate, analyze, and summarize data directly in spreadsheet ...

Seattle Sonics

What’s at stake for Seattle in times of dramatic change? University of Washington Foster School of Business marketing professor Jeff Shulman has spent years studying that question, as host of… Read ...