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Reactor, which claims its AI platform can generate real-time video with near-zero latency, comes out of stealth with a $59 million Series A round led by Lightspeed (Todd Spangler/Variety)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Is Polsia AI a slop or the future of startups? A show about the inside conversations of…

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Microsoft Work Trends Index 2026: Survey of 20,000 AI users finds 65% worry about falling behind, but only 13% say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in the workplace (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 5, 2026

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft Work Trends Index 2026: Survey of 20,000 AI users finds 65% worry about falling behind,…

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Annual Letter: Andy Jassy says AWS AI revenue hit an annual run rate of $15 billion starting in the first quarter, and Amazon plans to spend about $200 billion in capital spending in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Annual Letter: Andy Jassy says AWS AI revenue hit an annual run rate of $15 billion…

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Social gaming startup Rec Room will shut down its service on June 1, saying it couldn’t find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5 billion as of December 2021 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Social gaming startup Rec Room will shut down its service on June 1, saying it couldn’t…

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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on the daily lives of a production for use in post-production (Todd Spangler/Variety)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based…

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Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance, alleging that its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images violated Paramount’s intellectual property (Todd Spangler/Variety)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 16, 2026

Todd Spangler / Variety: Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance, alleging that its AI-generated Seedance…

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Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon’s AGI team, will leave at the end of 2025; Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of AWS, will lead a group combining AI, silicon and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: “Neither team is used to losing.” Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and…

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Disney sends Google a cease and desist, accusing Google of “large-scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” content (Todd Spangler/Variety)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 11, 2025

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: So what happens after the AGI? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du,…

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Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store movie rental platform on December 10, offering select independent titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 8, 2025

Todd Spangler / Variety: Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store movie rental platform on December 10, offering select independent…

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Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open-weight models like the Stanford Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 20, 2025

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open models…

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Google says the Gemini app now offers custom Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro and Ultra users, for free to eligible US users (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

As a new law prohibits the DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms are abandoning companies like Alibaba and Tencent (Bloomberg).

Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200 million led by Summit Partners (Laura Kreutzer/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Strategy suspended its Bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead increasing its USD reserve to $2.55 billion and announcing a $1 billion digital credit buyback program (James Hunt/The Block)

Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, warns that EU DMA proposals to open up Android and search could lead to a significant increase in fraud within weeks (Matt Burgess/Wired)

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Reactor, which claims its AI platform can generate real-time video with near-zero latency, comes out of stealth with a $59 million Series A round led by Lightspeed (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Microsoft Work Trends Index 2026: Survey of 20,000 AI users finds 65% worry about falling behind, but only 13% say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in the workplace (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Annual Letter: Andy Jassy says AWS AI revenue hit an annual run rate of $15 billion starting in the first quarter, and Amazon plans to spend about $200 billion in capital spending in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Social gaming startup Rec Room will shut down its service on June 1, saying it couldn’t find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5 billion as of December 2021 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on the daily lives of a production for use in post-production (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance, alleging that its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images violated Paramount’s intellectual property (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon’s AGI team, will leave at the end of 2025; Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of AWS, will lead a group combining AI, silicon and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Disney sends Google a cease and desist, accusing Google of “large-scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” content (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store movie rental platform on December 10, offering select independent titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open-weight models like the Stanford Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)