Author: Benjamin Clarke
SAN FRANCISCO — Going through renewed threats of federal intervention from President Trump, Mayor Daniel Lurie used an look at an Amazon occasion Tuesday to make the case that San Francisco is “on the rise,” citing its AI-fueled revival as proof of a broader comeback. With out naming Trump or the proposal to deploy the Nationwide Guard, Lurie pushed again on the nationwide narrative of city decline — pointing to falling crime charges, new funding, and town’s central position within the AI growth. He stated San Francisco is “open for enterprise” once more, name-checking OpenAI and different distinguished firms within…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks on the firm’s fiftieth anniversary occasion. (GeekWire Photograph / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s complete 2025 compensation rose almost 22% from $79.1 million to virtually $96.5 million, due principally to the corporate’s booming share value boosting the worth of his inventory awards. The numbers had been disclosed Tuesday afternoon within the firm’s annual proxy statement, together with particulars on Microsoft board modifications, shareholder proposals elevating issues about AI dangers, and a request from the board for shareholders to approve a brand new inventory plan. Microsoft’s board nominated Walmart CFO John David Rainey as a…
Pete Christothoulou. (LinkedIn Picture) A brand new Seattle startup is betting that synthetic intelligence can take advertising off the plate of small enterprise house owners. Omada.ai, based earlier this 12 months by longtime tech entrepreneur Pete Christothoulou, formally launched Tuesday with what it describes as an “AI advertising group” designed to deal with the day-to-day digital advertising duties for small and midsize enterprise house owners. Backed by Crosslink Capital, HubSpot Ventures, and Seattle-based agency Ascend, the startup says its platform can plan, create, and optimize advertising campaigns robotically for lower than $9 per day. As a substitute of growing a…
An Amazon Prime supply van parked close to the corporate’s Seattle’s headquarters. (GeekWire File Picture / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon’s e-commerce prospects are experiencing uncommon supply delays following the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday — suggesting that the cloud glitch has impacted the corporate’s personal operations greater than than beforehand reported. Prospects posting on Reddit and X reported Amazon orders that have been scheduled for Monday supply however didn’t arrive. A number of the feedback: “I acquired a delay electronic mail on all the things due at this time. Coming tomorrow and I’m effective with that.” “I’ve 4 gadgets which…
Particular Groups’ founder and CEO, Clara Sekowski, discusses a {hardware} mockup construct with teammates within the loading bay of their new 7,400-square-foot facility in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. (Particular Groups Photograph) 9 years in the past, Clara Sekowski was a part of the engineering group at Planetary Resources, a Seattle-area startup that deliberate to mine valuable metals on asteroids. Six years in the past, she joined different veterans from Planetary Sources at First Mode, one other trailblazing startup that centered on clear vitality for industrial purposes. Now she’s the CEO of Special Teams, a consulting agency based with fellow engineers from First Mode.…
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran on the firm’s headquarters. (GeekWire File Photograph / Todd Bishop) Veeam Software, the information backup and restoration firm that lately moved its headquarters to the Seattle space, announced plans to amass Securiti AI for $1.725 billion. Securiti AI, based mostly in San Jose, Calif., helps enterprises handle knowledge safety posture, privateness, and compliance throughout cloud and software program platforms. The deal goals to combine Securiti’s Information Safety Posture Administration (DSPM) and “AI belief” applied sciences with Veeam’s core knowledge resilience instruments, giving firms a single platform to handle, safe, and get better their knowledge whereas safely…
(Photograph by appshunter.io on Unsplash) The results of the massive AWS outage reached the sports activities world on Monday. Ticketmaster was coping with ticket administration points on account of the outage, in response to messages shared by a number of sports activities groups internet hosting video games on Monday, together with the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Seahawks. The Blue Jays, going through off in opposition to the Seattle Mariners in a Recreation 7 MLB playoff bout at Rogers Centre in Toronto, posted a statement earlier Monday concerning the outage and suggested followers to “maintain off on managing your tickets…
Founder and CEO Priyanka Kulkarni, fourth from proper, and members of the Casium group at AI Home in Seattle. (Sam Fu Picture) Seattle startup Casium, which makes use of synthetic intelligence to streamline the work visa utility course of, raised $5 million in seed funding. The spherical was led by San Francisco-based Maverick Ventures, with participation from Seattle’s AI2 Incubator, GTMfund, Success Enterprise Companions, and Jake Heller, co-founder of Casetext, now a part of Thomson Reuters. Casium, spun out of AI2 Incubator in April 2024, is led by founder and CEO Priyanka Kulkarni, a former Microsoft scientist and entrepreneur-in-residence at AI2…
Editorial Word: This transient was initially printed on September 24, 2025 and was up to date on October 20, 2025 to incorporate the revised, greater value estimate from the Congressional Price range Workplace of the adjustments to the orphan drug exclusion within the 2025 tax and price range reconciliation legislation. Modifications are coming to Medicare’s drug value negotiation program that might end in no less than $5 billion in further Medicare spending over time, if not more, and better out-of-pocket prices for folks with Medicare. Beneath the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the federal authorities is required to barter with…
(WellSaid Picture) AI voice startup WellSaid Labs is doubling down on its area of interest of enterprise clients and controlled industries — hoping {that a} extra considered, behind-the-scenes method will repay for its enterprise in the long term whilst flashier rivals draw widespread consideration and controversy. The corporate, primarily based in Bellevue, Wash., launched a brand new model of its text-to-speech AI voice platform Monday with redesigned Studio software program and its next-generation Caruso voice mannequin, promising higher workflows, improved audio high quality, and fine-tuned controls, amongst different options. Not like open voice-generation fashions that scrape public information, WellSaid’s system…