Todd Bishop

Microsoft has based much of its AI business on models from OpenAI, before expanding more recently to Anthropic. On Tuesday, the company showed how it plans to rely less on both.

Digital Realty has filed permits to redevelop a downtown Seattle building into a six-story data center, lab and retail project, as the City Council moves toward a one-year moratorium on new data centers.

Emphere, a Seattle startup that emerged from the AI2 Incubator, raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding to automatically fix vulnerabilities found in popular open-source distributions, catering to software companies that sell to regulated industries.

Innovega, a company known for its augmented-reality contact lens technology, has turned its focus to a different product for now: smart glasses for people who are visually impaired.

Startup founders used to worry that tech giants would make their product obsolete. Now it’s even trickier: AI labs are not only encroaching on startup turf, they’re also offering tools for customers to attempt DIY solutions of their own. But there are approaches that work, and niches to be found, according to speakers and panelists at the Tech Alliance Seattle Investor Summit+Showcase this week.

Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual

Microsoft's Build conference was a firehose: in-house AI models, agent-first devices, new coding tools, and a Copilot “super app” that got teased but not yet shown.

Skylight, the free ocean-monitoring platform built by Seattle's Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), launched an AI agent that gives maritime analysts

Expeditors International , the Seattle-area logistics company known for never laying off employees, cut about 230 technology-related jobs in the region on Monday, ending a tradition that had been a point of pride for much of the company's history.

Golden Analytics , the AI-native analytics startup founded by former Tableau product chief Francois Ajenstat , added $14 million to its seed financing