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An inside look at Tableau: What’s the future of the ‘DataFam’ at Salesforce?
Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay, pictured during a visit to Seattle this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Walking into the “Data1” building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, it’s not easy to tell it’s the...
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Risk vs. revenue: Microsoft results will offer a new AI benchmark after a...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has described AI as a major financial opportunity for the company, its partners, and overall economic growth. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Some of the downsides of...
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Microsoft invests in startup Mistral AI, outlines broader AI principles
Microsoft President Brad Smith at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (Screenshot via webcast.) Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence,...
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Will AI change how we shop? What it’s like to use Amazon’s new Rufus assistant
Amazon Rufus offers an even-handed response to one of the most divisive questions in tech. Click to enlarge. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Rufus offers an even-handed response to one of the...
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Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader on AI, hiring, and the new realities of tech spending
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader at the company’s ENGAGE customer conference in September 2023. (Smartsheet Photo) Business software company Smartsheet surpassed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue in...
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Data protection giant Veeam moves HQ to Seattle region, tops $1.5B in annual...
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran inside the company’s new headquarters. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) KIRKLAND, Wash. — Credit the cloud, and the talent. The cricket is just a bonus. Veeam Software, the top...
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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical...
An AWS sign over the show floor at re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services...
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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. (GeekWire Photo / Todd...
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Amazon updates AWS Bedrock with new capability to import custom AI models
Amazon announced a series of new features for its AWS Bedrock service. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is releasing new capabilities for its Bedrock artificial intelligence...
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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big...
These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. (Microsoft Photo...
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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky steps down; senior exec Matt Garman...
Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to lead the...
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Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in...
Melissa Higgason, a chemistry teacher in Hobart, Indiana, uses marshmallows and water bottles to help students understand an abstract chemistry concept, an idea suggested by Khanmigo for Teachers....
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How Amazon’s new cloud chief Matt Garman will approach the big challenges ahead
Newly named Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, speaking here at a Madrona Venture Group event last fall, brings years of product and sales experience to his new role. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd...
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Adam Selipsky, the exit interview: Amazon Web Services CEO on AI,...
“The opportunities and the challenges for AWS abound, and I think it is still Day One for the cloud, including AI in that.” — outgoing Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky. (GeekWire File Photo /...
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Amazon’s departing cloud chief: Gen AI can be ‘one of the biggest...
Adam Selipsky, shown here at AWS re:Invent in November 2023, is working his last day as Amazon Web Services CEO today, before longtime AWS executive Matt Garman takes over the top job next week....
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Congressional hearing pits Microsoft’s actions vs. words in public grilling...
Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify Thursday before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security in a hearing titled, “A Cascade of Security Failures.” (GeekWire File Photo) Updated below...
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Cybersecurity in the age of AI: A conversation with Amazon Chief Security...
Steve Schmidt, Amazon chief security officer, speaks at AWS re:Inforce this week. (Amazon Photo) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle’s cloud giants,...
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CrowdStrike outage hits 8.5M Windows devices; Microsoft collaborates with...
A Delta Airlines display connected to a Windows machine impacted by the CrowdStrike update at Sea-Tac Airport. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The flawed update from cybersecurity software company...
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Amazon Web Services AI leader on the future of large language models and...
Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon Web Services vice president of AI and data, at a Seattle Tech Week event hosted by Madrona at Amazon on Monday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The old saying in tech is...
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A lawsuit by Surreal Holdings against Amazon Web Services cites a segment in this video by popular aviation and travel vlogger Sam Chui as evidence that its work for Amazon and Emirates was not...
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AWS exec explains how AI agents are driving a radical shift in the world of...
Doug Seven, director and general manager of AWS AI Developer Experiences. (Amazon Photo) In an era where AI is reshaping industries at breakneck speed, Doug Seven finds himself at the forefront of a...
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With new Amazon Web Services partnership, Oracle’s cloud database trade-off...
Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. (Oracle Photo) Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and cloud...
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Amazon Web Services VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company
Matt Wood worked at Amazon for 15 years, most recently as AWS VP of AI. (Amazon Photo) Matt Wood, the Amazon Web Services vice president who was a longtime champion of the cloud giant’s machine...
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AWS tops $10B in quarterly operating profits as Jassy cites ‘reacceleration’...
Amazon Web Services accounted for more than 60% of Amazon’s overall operating profits. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon’s cloud business isn’t done growing yet. Amazon Web Services posted...
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Amazon hires former Microsoft and SAP exec Julia White as new AWS marketing...
Julia White is the new AWS CMO. Julia White, a longtime Microsoft executive who spent the past four years at SAP, has been named the chief marketing officer and vice president at Amazon Web Services....
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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to...
Matt Garman, AWS CEO, announces the new AI tool for migrating .NET applications to Linux at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI:...
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Amazon expands Bedrock with new AI model marketplace, a day after unveiling...
Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon VP of AI and Data, at AWS re:Invent. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Unveiling Amazon’s homegrown Nova artificial intelligence models yesterday, Amazon CEO...
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Amazon earnings preview: AWS cloud growth, AI demand, trade wars among key...
Amazon Web Services growth will be a major factor in the company’s quarterly earnings report Thursday. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon’s cloud growth rate has been increasing steadily in...
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Amazon’s quarterly profits soar to a record $20 billion, but cloud growth...
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon beat Wall Street’s overall expectations with $187.8 billion in net sales, up 10%, and came in well ahead on the bottom line, with earnings of $1.86 per...
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Amazon on pace for $100B+ in yearly capex; Jassy expects cost efficiencies to...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the trends represented by DeepSeek should stoke AI demand long-term. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon reported $26.3 billion in capital expenditures in the fourth...
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Podcast: Amazon, AI, and the cloud — a reality check, with Corey Quinn of...
Amazon and other tech giants are boosting their capital spending on cloud infrastructure for anticipated AI demand. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sounded more bullish than...
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Amazon Web Services focuses on optimizing artificial intelligence in space
Amazon Web Services demonstrated data processing in orbit in 2022, using a payload on D-Orbit’s ION satellite carrier, shown in this artist’s conception. (D-Orbit Illustration) Artificial intelligence...
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Amazon’s new quantum chip joins race to enable next era of computing
Amazon’s new “Ocelot” processor is a first-generation quantum chip developed by the AWS Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, California. (AWS Photo) Amazon unveiled a prototype quantum processor...
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Amazon enters real-time AI voice race with Nova Sonic, a unified voice model...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy teased ahead to today’s announcement when he unveiled Amazon’s Nova initiative in December at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) What happens when the AI...
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Generative AI tops cybersecurity in 2025 tech budget priorities, new AWS...
An AWS-commissioned global survey of IT leaders finds that generative AI has overtaken security as the top tech budget priority for 2025. (Amazon Web Services / Access Partnership Graphic. See full...
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