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Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash (www.geekwire.com)
1 day ago Amazon

Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (www.geekwire.com)
9 days ago Microsoft

Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses (www.geekwire.com)
9 days ago Amazon eBay Walmart Shopify

At its Accelerate conference, Amazon says it is opening its seller tools to third-party AI agents, starting with Claude, in beta for US merchants (www.geekwire.com)
10 days ago Amazon AI

Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (www.geekwire.com)
12 days ago Amazon AI

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (www.geekwire.com)
28 days ago Microsoft AI Seattle

Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors (www.geekwire.com)
29 days ago AI Equity

Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-27 Database Amazon

Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-13 Microsoft Mobile

SpaceX reports Q2 revenue from connectivity, which includes Starlink, up 66% YoY to $4.29B vs. $3.83B est., Starlink subscribers up 100% to 12M vs. 12.19M est. (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-5 SpaceX

Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-1 Microsoft

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-18 Startup AI

Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-15 Drone Seattle

Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered “Smartbadges” worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-14 AI Seattle

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft AI

At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (www.geekwire.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting (www.geekwire.com)
2026-6-6 Microsoft

Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others (www.geekwire.com)
2026-6-3 Android Microsoft

Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-23 Microsoft

S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft AI

Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS's AI revenue has reached a $15B annual run rate as of Q1, and Amazon plans to spend ~$200B in capital expenditures in 2026 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-4-9 Amazon AI

AWS launches Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System to let applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems (www.geekwire.com)
2026-4-9 Amazon AI

Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-3-31 Startup

Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-3-24 Microsoft AI

A profile of AWS at its 20th anniversary, covering its creation, rise to market dominance, response to the ChatGPT disruption, and the future of its AI bets (www.geekwire.com)
2026-3-23 AI

Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO (www.geekwire.com)
2026-3-13 AI

Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities” (www.geekwire.com)
2026-2-26 NLP

Highspot, which has raised $650M and makes AI-powered sales enablement software, plans to merge with rival Seismic; the combined company will be called Seismic (www.geekwire.com)
2026-2-13 AI

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