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Amazon scraps 95% of the plastic air pillows used in delivery packaging in North America

Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity

by Taylor Soper on June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 at 1:57 pm

Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief technology officer. Bee was most recently CTO at Lessen, a… Read More

Can you spot deepfakes? New quiz tests how well people can identify manipulated images and videos

by Kurt Schlosser on June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 at 10:47 am

A new quiz from Seattle-based AI nonprofit TrueMedia tests how well people can spot deepfake images, videos and audio clips, highlighting the need for people to be aware of what’s… Read More

Are Passkeys the Future of Logging In?

While passwords are still the most commonly used authentication method, they’re also still the weakest link in personal and business security. According to Dashlane’s Global Look at Password Health Scores… Read More

Amazon scraps 95% of the plastic air pillows used in delivery packaging in North America

by Lisa Stiffler on June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 at 3:12 pm

Amazon on Thursday announced that it has eliminated 95% of the inflated plastic pillows that it uses to cushion goods being shipped to its customers. It’s now largely using recycled… Read More

Climate tech funding dip poses threat for capital-intensive startups — but it’s not time to panic

by Gillian Dohrn on June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 at 7:42 am

In a webinar Tuesday on the future of climate tech, Alan Neuhauser of Axios kicked off the questions by asking what it means to succeed in a burgeoning market where… Read More

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Save A Train: A New Era In Train Ticket Booking

Save A Train, a rail system in the B2B rail ticketing industry, has developed a revolutionary and proprietary railway ticketing application programming interface (API) and platform. This has the potential… Read More

E-commerce vets raise $50M seed round for new startup that aims to reimagine online shopping

by Taylor Soper on June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 at 6:28 am

A new startup founded by longtime e-commerce leaders is using artificial intelligence in a bid to shake up the way people find and buy clothing online. Daydream announced a massive… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: How AI is shaking up the worlds of media, marketing, and startups

by Boaz Ashkenazy on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 at 10:05 am

How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation? And how can scrappy startups hope to compete with well-funded… Read More

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Aurion Biotech gets FDA approval to speed development of vision restoring treatment

by Lisa Stiffler on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 at 1:45 pm

Seattle’s Aurion Biotech announced Wednesday that it received special designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that should speed up the development of its treatment for a common disease… Read More

Climate projects land $75M to boost environmental justice, job training in Washington state

by Gillian Dohrn on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 at 1:18 pm

The Washington State Department of Commerce and the City of Seattle this week allocated close to $75 million in funding for community-led clean energy projects and climate-related job training programs.… Read More

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The search for Bigfoot deepfakes: Bumbershoot offers $5,000 bounty in legendary new AI contest

by Todd Bishop on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 at 8:18 am

The emergence of the modern deepfake is closely tied to the rise of generative artificial intelligence, but when it comes to videos and images of questionable origin and authenticity, the… Read More

Butterflies takes flight with $4.8M, launches social media platform combining AI and human content

by Kurt Schlosser on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 3:15 pm

Butterflies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based social media platform that combines human and AI-generated content, launched Tuesday after raising $4.8 million in seed funding. After five months in beta, Butterflies is billed… Read More

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KPMG and T-Mobile roll out new player-tracking app for Women’s PGA Championship

by Taylor Soper on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 1:09 pm

T-Mobile is helping boost the fan experience this week at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, a major women’s golf tournament hosted by Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash. The Bellevue,… Read More

Microsoft and PC makers release first Copilot+ PCs without flagship ‘Recall’ AI feature at launch

by Todd Bishop on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 12:07 pm

Microsoft and its PC partners Tuesday pressed ahead with the release of the first Copilot+ PCs despite delaying the AI-powered “Recall” feature to address security and privacy concerns. Rather than… Read More

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AI without prompting: This startup just joined Techstars to make generative AI easier to use

by Taylor Soper on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 9:18 am

Rene Bystron spent hundreds of hours at his last startup building an app that helps teach people how to use generative AI tools. And it was through that experience that… Read More

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Amazon Labor Union partners with Teamsters to boost warehouse worker representation

by Taylor Soper on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 8:30 am

Workers in the Amazon Labor Union voted Tuesday to join Teamsters, partnering with one of the largest U.S. unions in a move that could pressure Amazon to negotiate on issues… Read More

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Google vet leads new startup studio in Seattle spinning out B2B software companies

by Taylor Soper on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 10:50 am

Another startup studio with roots in Seattle is incubating ideas and spinning out fledgling tech companies. Mudita Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Detroit, launched its Mudita Studios… Read More

In commencement speech, Melinda French Gates advises Stanford grads about navigating transitions

by Lisa Stiffler on June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 at 10:22 pm

In her commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday morning, Melinda French Gates got personal and philosophical. French Gates acknowledged the big step the Standford grads were taking — which… Read More

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Spokane’s Tech Hub places a big bet on advanced aerospace materials — will the feds follow suit?

by Alan Boyle on June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 at 9:49 am

“There’s a great future in thermoplastics.” If anyone ever does a remake of “The Graduate,” that’s how the famous advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character about the promise of the… Read More

Don’t say AI: Why some investors say startups should avoid overusing the trendy term

by Taylor Soper on June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 at 8:36 am

AI startups accounted for 40% of total venture funding in May. So it may seem strategic for startups to include AI as part of their pitches to investors. But founders… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 9, 2024

by GeekWire on June 16, 2024June 16, 2024 at 8:00 am

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The t-shirts that tech people don’t want anymore: Seattle thrift-store swag deadpool, 2024 edition

by Todd Bishop on June 15, 2024June 16, 2024 at 8:41 am

My idea of weekend fun is browsing the racks at Seattle-area thrift stores in search of once-prized tech swag that has become castoff apparel, as a barometer of the status… Read More

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by Todd Bishop on June 15, 2024June 15, 2024 at 8:12 am

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle’s cloud giants, albeit in very different ways for each. Microsoft President Brad Smith was in… Read More

UW disinformation researchers will continue work amid reports of Stanford group crisis

by Lisa Stiffler on June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 at 2:11 pm

As the presidential campaign was heating up four years ago, the University of Washington and Stanford University led a nonpartisan cohort that monitored and publicized in real time their research… Read More

Zillow Group and multiple listing firms reach settlement in ShowingTime lawsuit

by Dave Gallagher on June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 at 12:45 pm

This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. A settlement has been reached between Zillow Group and three multiple listing service organizations in a lawsuit involving the company’s ShowingTime product. A… Read More

Seattle indie game studio Galvanic Games is shutting down

by Thomas Wilde on June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 at 12:37 pm

Galvanic Games, the independent Seattle-based developer behind video games such as Some Distant Memory, Rapture Rejects, and last fall’s Wizard With a Gun, is closing its doors. Studio head and… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Amazon Prime Air leader lands at Torc Robotics; Microsoft vet joins Meta

by Taylor Soper on June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 at 12:03 pm

Eric Berlinberg, who spent the past decade at Amazon and was a key leader on the company’s Prime Air team, is moving on from the Seattle tech giant for a… Read More

Seattle entrepreneurs are building autonomous robots to deliver hassle-free EV charging

by Lisa Stiffler on June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 at 10:32 am

The founders at Autev envision a future where EV drivers simply park their vehicles in a garage, open an app and enter a parking space number. When they return, their… Read More

Corporate spending software giant Brex plans to open office in downtown Seattle

by Taylor Soper on June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 at 8:35 am

Brex is opening an office in downtown Seattle. The Salt Lake City-based fintech giant operates as a “remote-first” company and a spokesperson said the Seattle office will be used “in… Read More

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Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA on Pentagon list for $5.6B in launch contracts

by Alan Boyle on June 13, 2024June 14, 2024 at 8:17 am

The Department of Defense has put Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin in the running for a share of up to $5.6 billion in national security space launch contracts, marking a first… Read More

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Amazon CEO’s advice to computer science grads: take risks, keep learning, write your own story

by Kurt Schlosser on June 13, 2024June 14, 2024 at 8:17 am

In a speech peppered with mentions of his own sports failings and achievements, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy offered up some advice for winning at life and work to graduates of… Read More

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Amazon strikes a deal for Project Kuiper satellite internet service in South America

by Alan Boyle on June 13, 2024June 13, 2024 at 10:25 am

Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband network has been tapped to provide internet connectivity to customers in seven South American countries, under the terms of a newly announced deal with Vrio… Read More