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Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader retiring; Apptio co-founder Sunny Gupta will take over enterprise giant
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader at the company's ENGAGE customer conference in September 2023. (Smartsheet Photo) After leading ...
Amazon will offer OpenAI’s open-weight models, sidestepping Microsoft via Apache 2.0 license
Amazon is offering OpenAI’s new open-weight AI models on Bedrock and SageMaker, bypassing Microsoft’s Azure exclusivity via ...
Bill Gates business card up for auction, with significant date from Microsoft’s early days
A Bill Gates business card obtained on Nov. 6, 1980, during a visit to the Microsoft co-founder's Bellevue, Wash., office.
OpenAI to provide ChatGPT to federal agencies for $1, and Seattle’s Slalom will assist worker training
OpenAI is providing U.S. federal government agencies access to ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 per agency for the next year, the ...
AI chatbots sway political opinions – but education could offer protection, UW study finds
University of Washington researchers found that politically biased chatbots influence users' opinions, even nudging them away ...
‘The hustle factor is real’: Why this fast-growing Seattle startup is packing its bags for Palo Alto
Nectar Social co-founders and sisters Misbah Uraizee (left) and Farah Uraizee. (Nectar Social Photo) Misbah Uraizee and Farah ...
Zillow revenue up 15% to $655M as mortgage and rentals business drive growth
Zillow beat estimates for its second quarter with $655 million in revenue, up 15% year-over-year. GAAP net income was $2 ...
Secretive startup backed by Concur co-founders uses AI to rethink customer experience software
SCALA.AI co-founder and CEO Ardie Sameti (left) and co-founder/executive chairman Raj Singh. Concur co-founders Raj Singh and ...
Blue Origin and five other companies study how orbital transfer vehicles can aid NASA
Blue Origin is among six companies that will help NASA learn how orbital transfer vehicles can deliver spacecraft to ...
Microsoft’s new AI reverse-engineers malware autonomously, marking a shift in cybersecurity
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, an autonomous AI system that reverse-engineers software to detect and block malware without ...
palo alto
Misbah Uraizee and Farah Uraizee want to win. And they believe their best shot at success lies in Silicon Valley, not Seattle. The co-founders of Nectar Social, fresh off a $10.6 million… Read More ...
‘Open-weight’ debate: Allen Institute for AI says OpenAI needs to go further to be truly open
Allen Institute for AI says OpenAI’s new open-weight models fall short of true transparency, renewing debate over what ...