Seattle-based Apacendo Health is building AI agents that read incoming faxes and enter patient data into electronic health records for nephrology practices, aiming to cut the administrative work that consumes hours of clinic staff time each day 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
Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI has launched Shippy, a free AI agent built on its Skylight ocean-monitoring platform that answers maritime analysts’ plain-language questions using live vessel-tracking and satellite data. Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down the news from Microsoft Build from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft’s push to rely less on OpenAI and Anthropic, and the mounting pressure on GitHub. Read More
Microsoft teased its rumored Copilot “Super App” at Build but didn’t demo it. Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley assesses the no-show, explains why the initiative matters, and considers what the company actually did announce. Read More
A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The first two concept devices, a desktop hub and a wearable badge, are headed to pilots with some big-name businesses. Read More
Brian Evergreen, a former Microsoft AI leader and author of Autonomous Transformation, argues that most companies are approaching AI backward — starting with the technology instead of a vision for what they want to create. In a live GeekWire Podcast recording, he explains how leaders can adjust their approach. Read More
After eight years as managing director at Pioneer Square Labs, serial entrepreneur T.A. McCann is becoming CEO of Lev, an AI-powered co-founder platform for early-stage founders. PSL is spinning out Lev as a standalone company with McCann at the helm. Read More
CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in Techstars Seattle, raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software apps. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have adopted the company’s open AG-UI protocol. Read More
Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index finds that the biggest barrier to AI at work isn’t the technology or the workers — it’s the organizations around them. Only 13% of AI users say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in their jobs. Read More
A small team inside Microsoft led by Corporate Vice President Omar Shahine is building “Project Lobster,” an OpenClaw-based agent designed to work around the clock on behalf of knowledge workers within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The project already has more than 3,000 daily users inside the company. Read More
The GeekWire Podcast goes inside the Elon Musk trial against OpenAI and Microsoft, breaks down blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Amazon, and tells the story of a tiny Seattle VC firm that hustled its way into a billion-dollar AI deal. Read More
Microsoft’s decision to have GPT and Claude check each other’s work inside Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher agent signals a broader shift: the single-model era in enterprise AI may be over. Read More
Glacis, a Seattle startup building tamper-proof records of AI behavior, has hired longtime Microsoft Azure exec Rohit Tatachar as co-founder and CTO and is launching new open-source tools for monitoring and controlling AI agents. Read More
Software in the age of AI agents is becoming something anyone can create on the fly — which could have major implications in the way “applications” are designed, built, and used. Read More
For this installment in our Agents of Transformation series, GeekWire examined the rising trend of vertical AI agents — tools built to do one job exceptionally well by combining models with domain-specific data, workflows, and context. Read More
Seattle startup Certiv emerged from stealth with $4.2 million in funding to build security software that monitors and controls AI agents on employee computers. The company is led by serial entrepreneur Jason Needham, whose previous startups were acquired by Apple and VMware. Read More
A federal judge sided with Amazon in its lawsuit over Perplexity’s Comet browser, granting a preliminary injunction in an early legal test of AI-powered shopping tools. Read More
Anthropic is acquiring Seattle AI startup Vercept, folding its desktop “computer use” technology and team into Claude as the race to build AI agents that can operate software intensifies. Vercept will shut down its Vy application as part of the deal. Read More
David Luan, who led Amazon’s AGI Lab and its Nova Act AI agent initiative, is leaving less than two years after joining through the Adept acqui-hire deal. Four of five Adept co-founders have now left the company. 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
Computer scientist and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni shares his unvarnished take on AI agents, the platform race, OpenAI, deepfakes, and what good AI leadership looks like, during a conversation at an Accenture-hosted event in Bellevue. Read More
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