Syndio announced Tuesday that it acquired Embrace.ai, an agentic AI startup whose founders and technology will help Syndio build out its AI-powered compensation platform. Read More
Anthropic took its two newest AI models offline to comply with a U.S. order, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly among those who raised the concerns behind it. The GeekWire Podcast also digs into agentic AI’s effect on Amazon’s culture, an AI-driven school opening near Seattle, and the sensor-packed World Cup ball. Read More
Gradial says it’s raised over $110 million in the past 16 months, calling it “a testament to the rapid growth” it’s seen across its business. Read More
AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go. Read More
Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services. They’ve been using the tools themselves to quietly change how they work — starting with one of Amazon’s most sacred processes. Read More
Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon’s custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More
While companies rush to deploy autonomous AI tools, CodeIntegrity has raised new funding to build runtime guardrails needed to keep unpredictable models from leaking sensitive enterprise data. The startup’s co-founders recently relocated from the Seattle area to San Francisco. Read More
Amazon announced Alexa for Shopping, merging its Rufus e-commerce chatbot with Alexa+ into a unified experience, aiming to outdo ChatGPT and other general-purpose AI assistants for shopping. Read More
Shawn Bice, who left AWS for Microsoft’s security organization in 2022, is returning to Amazon as VP of AI Services to lead the Automated Reasoning Group under Swami Sivasubramanian’s Agentic AI organization. Read More
As AI agents move from writing code to joining the team, Seattle-based SageOx has raised $15 million to ensure they don’t get left out of the conversation. Read More
AWS is expanding line of Amazon Connect business apps into a suite of agentic AI products, including new tools for supply chain planning and high-volume hiring built on Amazon’s own operational experience and insights. Read More
Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 processor cores for agentic AI workloads, the latest major customer win for Amazon’s growing custom silicon business. Read More
At Microsoft’s global nonprofit summit, 1,500 groups tackled the AI paradox: bridging the gap between tech potential and the high costs of real-world deployment. Read More
Todd and John unpack takeaways from the GeekWire AI Summit, from token budgets and the surprising cost of vibe-coding to OpenAI shutting down Sora and why the chat era may be over. Plus: light rail trivia. Read More
OpenCFO, a Seattle-based startup tackling the ‘fragmented and manual’ nature of modern finance, has raised $2 million to automate financial functions for mid-sized companies. Read More
AWS is launching Amazon Connect Health, handling patient calls, clinical documentation and billing codes in a new challenge to Microsoft’s Nuance and a crowded field of AI scribe startups. Read More
Amazon is rolling out a “dynamic canvas” in Seller Central that generates personalized visual dashboards in response to seller prompts, building on its existing AI-powered Seller Assistant. The feature launches as Shopify, Walmart and others race to add AI to their merchant tools. Read More
The focus is on questions that are top of mind for many right now: What does the rise of AI agents mean for productivity, the future of work, and the way companies and industries operate? Read More
Amazon issued an unusually pointed rebuttal to a Financial Times report that its AI coding tools caused AWS outages, calling one key claim “entirely false.” Read More
GeekWire announces the first wave of speakers for its Agents of Transformation summit on March 24 in Seattle, including leaders from AWS, Microsoft, Outreach, and AI startup Vercept. Read More
Amazon bets $200 billion on AI infrastructure, AI agents get their own social network, and AI veteran Oren Etzioni talks agents, startups, deepfakes, and the race between the major AI research labs and big tech platforms. Read More
Amazon is experimenting again. This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down our scoop on Amazon’s new ultrafast delivery service, ride along in a Zoox robotaxi on the Las Vegas Strip, and talk with AWS SVP Colleen Aubrey about Amazon’s push into applied AI and the rise of AI “teammates.” Read More
AI is transforming how ads are made, but it’s also raising bigger questions about creativity itself. Amazon VP Jay Richman joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss the shift. Read More
Amazon rolled out new agentic AI tools to proactively help sellers manage inventory and create ads — even as surveys and regulators highlight strains in its lucrative marketplace. Read More
