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Alaska Airlines grounds flights across U.S. due to IT outage
Alaska Airlines grounded all flights nationwide on Sunday evening due to an IT outage. The Seattle-based airline didn't provide additional details about ...
Inside Amazon’s AI deployment team: Lessons from the front lines of enterprise adoption
Amazon Web Services VP Francessca Vasquez explains how companies are deploying AI, from pilot to production across industries ...
Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Tola Capital; Amperity names CPO; Edelman exec joins Boeing
In Pacific Northwest tech moves, Vahé Torossian joined Tola Capital as a venture partner, Amperity named a CPO and Boeing ...
Startup radar: Seattle founders tackle big problems, from childcare to cybersecurity
Aira Security CEO Mohan Kumar; Concier AI CEO Sunny Pei; Rosie CEO Mitra Raman; Stronghold Labs CEO Pete Schwab; and ...
Speed, AI agents, and ambition: Madrona’s newest partner on what’s next for enterprise software
Sabrina Albert (Wu) speaks at Madrona's annual meeting earlier this year in Seattle. (Madrona Photo) Sabrina Albert (Wu), a ...
Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor
Amazon confirmed layoffs in its AWS cloud division following a strategic review, saying the cuts were not primarily driven by ...
Tech hiring trends: Corporate layoffs create opportunity for well-positioned startups
GeekWire co-founder John Cook (left) and Prime Team Partners CEO Darren Hogben address the crowd at GeekWire's office in ...
Amazon’s carbon emissions rise 6% amid AI boom
After two years of modest declines, Amazon reported today that its carbon footprint grew by 6% last year. The global cloud ...
‘It’s a game-changer’: Seattle touts high-tech Real Time Crime Center amid privacy concerns
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes speaks at a media event Tuesday for the city's new Real Time Crime Center. Back row, from ...
Seattle startup Zucca raises $5M to help food brands launch products faster with AI
Carly Rector, acting CTO; Karen Huh, CEO and co-founder; Theo Han, engineer; Nana Gilbert-Baffoe, CTO; Matt Jinkens, ...
UW scientists use AI to crack ‘undruggable’ proteins, opening door to new treatments
Scientists David Baker's UW lab are using generative AI to target 'undruggable' proteins for creating new drugs and ...
PATH launches landmark AI study in Africa exploring LLMs’ potential in health diagnoses
PATH has launched the largest study of its kind in Africa, recruiting 9,000 participants to test whether AI can help primary ...