Amazon Web Services focuses on optimizing artificial intelligence for space applications

Amazon Web Services demonstrated data processing in orbit in 2022, using a payload on D-Orbit’s ION satellite carrier, shown in this artist’s conception. (D-Orbit Illustration) Artificial intelligence and machine learning…

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These colorful AI aliens could be your new virtual best friend as startup lands $10M to launch Tolan

An array of Tolan animated AI companions. (Portola Image) The promise and potential of artificial intelligence to be more than just a disembodied voice or text bubble took another colorful…

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Bridgetown, a Seattle startup that uses AI agents to automate research tasks, raises $19M

Bridgetown Research CEO Harsh Sahai. (Bridgetown Photo) Bridgetown Research, a Seattle-based startup that uses AI to help investment firms and corporate teams supercharge their research efforts, raised $19 million in…

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Warner Bros. shuts down Seattle-area subsidiary Monolith Productions, cancels ‘Wonder Woman’

Monolith Productions might’ve been best-known for its 2014 open-world game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. (WB Games Image) Monolith Productions, a Kirkland, Wash.-based game development studio behind Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor,…

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Microsoft invests in Veeam, deepens cloud and AI partnership with data protection company

Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran at the company’s headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft made an equity investment in Veeam, deepening its partnership with the Kirkland, Wash.-based data protection…

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Zillow vets launch HouseWhisper, giving real estate agents an AI assistant to help with workload

HouseWhisper co-founders, from left: Spencer Rascoff, Luis Poggi and Alex Kutner. (HouseWhisper Photo) Three veterans of Zillow Group who helped turn the Seattle real estate company into a tech powerhouse…

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From early days of COVID to the AI revolution, Providence leader talks healthcare transformation

Sara Vaezy, Providence chief digital officer. (Providence Photo) “It was a very interesting time,” said Sara Vaezy, recounting the earliest days of COVID-19 and how digital health initiatives at Providence…

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