Taara’s current Lightbridges are about the size of a traffic light, but its new chips should deliver smaller designs. Light-based internet project Taara is exiting Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator X, spinning…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Chinese search engine Baidu has launched two new AI models — Ernie 4.5, the latest version of the company’s foundational model first released…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's…
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 9, 2025. Sign…
In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and-bust cycle: many companies stuck in limbo aren’t…
Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup hopes to one day commercialize. Joby, which…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will…
As AI startups infest every aspect of life as we know it with unsolicited slop and shady surveillance, not even the final frontier is safe. According to documents obtained by 404…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications…
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Swedish fintech Klarna took the next step in its highly anticipated U.S. IPO on Friday when it made its F-1 public. Here are the top take-aways. © 2024 TechCrunch. All…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points This week, Google released a family of open AI models, Gemma 3, that quickly garnered praise for their impressive efficiency. But as a…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points China appears to think homegrown AI startup DeepSeek could become a notable tech success story for the country. After DeepSeek’s sudden rise to…
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Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the workforce” this year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella…
Ubisoft is reportedly considering launching a new venture that will hold some of the company's most popular IPs, and that could be part-owned by other companies besides shareholder Tencent. According…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points This week, OpenAI inked a five-year, $11.9 billion deal with CoreWeave, the GPU-heavy cloud provider, securing its own AI computing pipeline—and a $350…
The finalists for Deal of the Year at the 2025 GeekWire Awards. Three major acquisitions and two significant funding rounds make up the transactions featured in the Deal of the…
A new startup called Skylark has taken flight today — with TNW lending an extra set of wings. The company launches with a central mission: empowering non-technical founders to quickly…