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THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES
Veteran Microsoft security executive joins AWS amid broader reshuffle in Redmond
Rudra "Rudy" Mitra, who led Microsoft's Purview data-security business, is joining Amazon Web Services as vice president of security services.
Jimothy keeps on giving: Amazon and others match winning bid for raccoon art, to benefit food bank
A painting of the short-spined raccoon by prolific Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward attracted a winning bid of $6,543.21 in an informal Instagram auction this weekend, with all proceeds directed to the Ballard Food Bank.
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Amazon cuts jobs in AGI group as it puts more focus on customer-facing AI
Amazon confirmed layoffs in its artificial general intelligence organization, the group behind its Nova models, as the company sharpens its AI focus toward tools for business customers.
8-bit ‘Jimothy’: Viral sensation raids trash cans, eludes paparazzi in Seattle creator’s video game
Jimothy, the short-spined Seattle raccoon, has become a global sensation whose likeness has been immortalized in artwork, clothing, songs and tattoos — and now a video game created in the creature's hometown.
Microsoft 2.5: New security business chief Hayete Gallot on the company’s push into the agentic era
Hayete Gallot, who rejoined Microsoft in February to lead its security business, is pushing the company toward "agentic security" — systems that spot threats and act on them without waiting for a human.
Grammy-winning artist and entrepreneur Diplo invests in Seattle startup Copper
Seattle startup Copper is getting a high-profile boost from Grammy-winning artist and entrepreneur Diplo, who has invested in the company as it expands its consumer rewards platform.
UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S. engineering hub amid AI boom
AI infrastructure company Nscale is expanding its presence in Bellevue with a new U.S.
Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said its frontier model research lab will continue.
Microsoft 2.5: A new series on the people shaping the company’s future
Mary Jo Foley is launching a GeekWire series profiling the people and priorities behind Microsoft's evolution.
Next-gen battery startup Sila raises $300M to expand manufacturing plant in Washington state
Sila, a startup producing next-generation battery materials, on Tuesday announced $300 million from investors, which will help fund the expansion of its Moses Lake, Wash., manufacturing plant.
Defense tech giant Anduril eyes new funding at $100B valuation as Seattle expansion draws protests
Defense tech giant Anduril is reportedly seeking a new funding round that would value the company at about $100 billion, underscoring its meteoric rise as it rapidly expands its engineering and maritime operations in the Seattle region.
Interlune extracts helium-3 from ordinary helium, demonstrating a process it plans to use on the moon
Seattle startup uses cryogenic distillation to produce helium-3 for quantum computing and other uses, on Earth and someday on the moon.
New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust
Docugami, the Kirkland, Wash., startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, is open-sourcing DGML, a format that turns business documents into structured, verifiable data for AI.
The greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil
In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, disrupting a funeral industry that had been largely unchanged for decades.
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