Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) speaks at a Tech Alliance event in Seattle on May 3, 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) For the U.S. to maintain a competitive edge in the global artificial intelligence race, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) says there are lessons to take from post-World War II. Speaking at a Tech Alliance event in Seattle on...

Driving home from the Technology Alliance annual lunch in Seattle today, we were momentarily distracted by the big orange billboard for Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot, overlooking Highway 99 / Aurora Avenue. Sure, tech billboards are commonplace in the Bay Area, but they’re a little more unusual in our neck of the woods. And the location...

Maybe the escaped zebra is reading GeekWire, or building and posting another meme about himself. (Image generated with DALL-E prompt “Zebra working on a laptop.”) For fear of beating a not-dead, just-missing zebra, here’s another story about the story that won’t quit this week. In case you’ve been off Facebook, X and nearly every other...

A wall in the new University of Washington CoMotion offices includes logos for some of the 285 companies that have spun out of the program. (GeekWire Photos / Lisa Stiffler) The University of Washington this week held an open house to celebrate the new headquarters of CoMotion, the UW organization supporting startups and technology commercialization....

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) This the text of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s internal memo sent to employees Friday, May 3, about the company’s new security initiatives, expanding on Microsoft Security leader Charlie Bell’s public blog post on the topic. GeekWire obtained...

Charlie Bell, executive vice president of Microsoft security, speaks at the GeekWire Summit in 2022. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big...