This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed in “The Everything War,” the new book by Dana Mattioli of the Wall Street Journal. We also revisit last week’s episode with Mattioli and share some of the reactions to the discussion. Plus, the FTC probes Amazon’s...

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), left, speaks at the Technology Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle on May 3, 2024, with Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (center) and veteran Seattle tech leader Dave Cotter, right, who moderated the discussion. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) For the U.S. to maintain a competitive...

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...