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Military tech giant Anduril lands in Bellevue, doubling footprint in Seattle region
Anduril is expanding in the Seattle area with a new office in Bellevue, Wash. The defense tech giant leased 39,851 square ...
Industrial wastewater treatment startup Membrion raises more cash
Industrial wastewater treatment startup Membrion is raising a new round of cash according to an SEC filing by the Seattle ...
As AI reshapes its workforce, Microsoft commits $4 billion to help others adapt
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at a special event Wednesday morning announcing the company's new Elevate skilling initiative. (GeekWire Photo / ...
How Smartsheet is ‘AI-ifying’ its product and company following $8.4B private equity takeover
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader has led the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software giant since 2006. (Smartsheet Photo) Five ...
Pokee AI, a new AI agent startup led by ex-Meta manager, lands $12M to automate online workflows
Michael Cai, head of product engineering), Christopher Wu (head of ML engineering), Zheqing (Bill) Zhu (founder and CEO), and ...
Concrete goes green: UW and Microsoft use seaweed to create novel carbon-trapping cement
Researchers have developed a novel solution for trapping carbon in concrete by blending a sustainable, easy-to-grow green ...
DoorDash slams Seattle over driver deactivation law, adds new service fees
Drive Forward, a nonprofit trade industry association representing gig workers in Seattle, held a media event at Seattle City ...
This Seattle tech giant is gobbling up computer science grads from the University of Washington
The graduation ceremony last month in Seattle for the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & ...
ByteDance lays off 65 Seattle-area workers
ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok, is laying off 65 workers based in Bellevue, Wash., according to ...
AI companionship app Tolan raises $20M to help more people grow with a virtual alien friend
The Tolan app features AI companions from Planet Portola. They are designed to help users feel grounded and confident, ...
Paleontologists dig into the facts and fiction in the latest ‘Jurassic World’ dinosaur movie
"Jurassic World Rebirth" is a science-fiction movie, not a dinosaur documentary. Nevertheless, Nathan Myhrvold has a few ...
Microsoft and the microbiome: Viome works with tech giant to optimize AI for molecular health
Viome partners with Microsoft to scale its RNA-based health platform, using AI and cloud computing to deliver personalized ...