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Startup sold to big tech giant

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Quantum physics and outer space may seem as different as two tech frontiers can be, but the… Read More

Bill Gates on Microsoft at 50, and what’s next for AI and innovation

Bill Gates talks about Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, parallels between AI and the early days of the PC, and where he sees the next big opportunities for innovation.… Read More

Microsoft’s free 365 Copilot Chat will let business users access AI agents in bid to expand adoption

Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI service for businesses, with a free chat experience… Read More

Google and Amazon workers protest tech giants’ contract with Israel as war in Gaza continues

Google and Amazon workers held protests on Tuesday in Seattle and other tech hubs, demonstrating in opposition to the tech… Read More

Read AI raises $21M from Goodwater and Madrona, adds AI summaries for email and messaging

Artificial intelligence startup Read AI raised $21 million in new funding from Goodwater Capital and Madrona Venture Group, and expanded… Read More

Google’s ‘Project Green Light’ uses AI to improve traffic flow, cut emissions in Seattle and elsewhere

Next time you avoid sitting at a red light in Seattle, Google’s “Project Green Light” might have something to do… Read More

Seattle-area transit payment card ORCA will soon be accessible in Google Wallet

Public transit riders in the Seattle area will soon be able to access their ORCA Cards for digital payments via… Read More

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Report: Microsoft considered selling Bing to Apple to replace Google as default search engine

Microsoft considered selling its Bing search engine to Apple in a deal that would have replaced Google as the default… Read More

Interview: UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt visits Amazon and Microsoft; talks AI, China, economy

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom’s chief financial minister, visited Seattle on Friday as part of a West Coast tour… Read More

Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the expansion Wednesday of CiviForm, a technology platform that helps residents apply to City of Seattle… Read More

Google’s search for top doodle ends with sixth grader’s artwork inspired by life with her sisters

Like a lot of kids, Rebecca Wu has been doodling for quite some time. Her dad said she first started… Read More

Bellevue student’s Google Doodle artwork reaches top five in contest, with chance to be on homepage

Rebecca Wu is one step away from gaining Google homepage fame — and some serious cash. Rebecca, a student at… Read More

Microsoft Bing will become ChatGPT’s default search engine in latest OpenAI collaboration

Microsoft says Bing will become the default search engine for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, giving the popular generative AI chatbot “timelier and… Read More

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Google to pay nearly $40M to Washington state after lawsuit over location tracking

Google will pay Washington state $39.9 million after a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Bob Ferguson accused the tech giant… Read More

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Washington state AG joins antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s ad business

Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson has joined an antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s advertising business. The lawsuit, filed in January… Read More

Google partners with Seattle startup to streamline clean energy deals, aiming to create new standard

Slashing carbon emissions requires the rapid deployment of solar, wind and other renewable energy supplies. But the projects often require… Read More

Book excerpt: Ex-Google manager’s ‘cautionary tale’ details alleged pregnancy discrimination

Editor’s note: Chelsey Glasson is a researcher and writer who spent the past two decades working in the public policy… Read More

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Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

Today’s news from the frontier of quantum computing includes Amazon Web Services’ release of cloud-based simulation software for modeling the… Read More

Seattle founder who sold company to Google says tech giant has ‘slowly ceased to function’

A former Google employee who just left the tech giant after three years says he witnessed a “gradual decay of… Read More

Google’s exit from big Seattle-area project shows fleeting relationship between tech and communities

In the suburban community of Kirkland, Wash., where Google established its original beachhead in the Seattle area, the tech giant… Read More

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AI’s next frontier: AlphaCode can match programming prowess of average coders

Artificial intelligence software programs are becoming shockingly adept at carrying on conversations, winning board games and generating artwork — but… Read More

Exclusive: Google quietly acquired a Seattle digital health startup that built an app to monitor breathing

Google’s got a thing for Seattle health tech startups. The tech giant acquired Sound Life Sciences, a small University of… Read More

Phaidra, which sells AI tech to industrial customers, raises $25M from DeepMind co-founder, others

Phaidra, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for industrial customers ranging from vaccine manufacturers to paper mills, raised $25 million.… Read More

How this Amazon engineering outpost is translating its unique geographic position into growth

PITTSBURGH — When we last visited Amazon’s engineering center in this city, back in 2018, the company had just announced… Read More

Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; and more

— Keela Robison, former vice president of product innovation at Netflix, joined Google as vice president of product management leading… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft developer relations chief lands at Google; Amazon HR leader joins AppLovin

— Microsoft’s head of developer relations Ashley Willis McNamara announced Friday that she is departing and joining Google as head… Read More

Google now employs more than 7,200 in Washington state — up from 4,500 workers just prior to the pandemic

The pandemic may have disrupted hiring patterns in tech, and pushed some workers out of coastal metro areas. But Google… Read More

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Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.… Read More

First-of-its-kind stormwater ‘heat map’ lights up pollutants fouling waters in Washington state

The COVID-19 pandemic has made us familiar with the idea of a deadly threat that spreads invisibly. Polluted stormwater has… Read More

Super Bowl ad roundup: Big stars push a range of tech, from travel to phones to electric vehicles

The focus of a lot of the Super Bowl LVI ads released ahead of Sunday’s games seems to be the… Read More

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