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Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn't handle, the marketplace became a fixture for researchers, remote freelancers, and data labelers worldwide — and its exit is triggering a wave of nostalgia and anxiety across online…
Meadow AI develops an artificial intelligence "co-manager" platform that gives operators real-time visibility into physical locations. The software ingests video and audio feeds alongside labor and inventory data to continuously monitor team execution, service speed, and overall store conditions.
As Climate Week NYC buzzed over the environmental toll of the AI boom, GeekWire’s Positive Charge podcast moderated a private panel with Amazon Chief Sustainability Officer Kara Hurst and Earthshot Prize CEO Jason Knauf to tackle the world's mounting carbon challenges. Read More
Gov. Bob Ferguson introduces the 23-member Washington Space Council during the kickoff for Seattle Space Week. Read More
Sales technology company Outreach confirmed plans to move its headquarters from Interbay to Seattle's Fremont neighborhood early next year, joining a campus that Adobe has anchored since the late 1990s. Read More
The Emerald City landed at No. 4 overall in the newly released Oxford Economics Global Cities Index 2026, which scored 1,000 major urban centers across economics, human capital, quality of life, environment, and governance. Read More
Seattle-based startup Nimbus Aerospace has completed successful test flights of its quarter-scale hybrid aircraft prototype in Oregon as it works toward a 2028 full-scale build.
Meg McCann didn't take the traditional path to leading a major marine science institution, moving from trial lawyer and state official to CEO of the Seattle Aquarium.
A philosopher argues that the debate over AI risk focuses too narrowly on whether AI systems share human goals, and not enough on the methods those systems are allowed to use to reach them.
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Amazon's move to block Meta's Muse AI assistant is an early sign of a much bigger fight over whether AI agents can use websites and apps on people's behalf. Plus, veteran startup leader Mike Fridgen joins us to talk about whether Seattle is still the place to build. Read More
AI House brought investors from Boston, New York, Colorado, the Bay Area and other cities to Seattle for a demo day where 25 early-stage startups pitched, many of them from outside the incubator's own portfolio. The goal was to bring more outside capital to local founders. Read More
Shankar Sundaram, a former Boeing engineer and enterprise sales leader, said the ultimate goal of East West Club is to create a "third place" in the city that's centered around genuine connection rather than corporate networking or status. Read More
Niantic Spatial hired Microsoft AI product leader Dave Citron as chief product officer, the late Paul Allen's Fund for Science and Technology named Brown University's Jane Dietze its first chief investment officer, and Zillow AI product leader Nicholas Stevens joined Stripe.
Microsoft's revamped Copilot app adds AI coding, always-on agents and full versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint as the company competes with OpenAI and Anthropic and shifts more of its AI pricing to usage-based billing. Read More
A new state filing lists all 277 positions Microsoft eliminated in the Seattle region, one job title at a time. Art, game production, game design, technical art and audio design account for 77 of them, with software engineering the largest single category at 60. Read More
Kompeld analyzes how companies describe themselves and scores their messaging. It looks at websites, sales materials and other company communications to identify what's clear, what's not, and where the message could be stronger. Read More
Microsoft is moving communications out of its marketing group and under Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, as CEO Satya Nadella calls for a fundamentally new approach that makes employees a bigger part of how the company tells its story. Read More
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