Todd Bishop

1 week ago | geekwire.com | Todd Bishop

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from a live interview with Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and former chief technology officer at Microsoft. Myhrvold worked at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he laid the groundwork for Microsoft Research, recruited top computer scientists, and played a key role in shaping the company’s technology strategy.

2 weeks ago | geekwire.com | Todd Bishop

In his 2024 Letter to Shareholders, released Thursday morning, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy introduces a new concept: Amazon’s “Why Culture,” or “YQ,” as he calls it. That’s his phrase for natural curiosity — a willingness to challenge the status quo by asking why things are the way they are, and why they can’t be different. One place this is playing out: Jassy’s campaign to reduce bureaucracy inside the company.

2 weeks ago | geekwire.com | Todd Bishop

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s total compensation reached $40.1 million in 2024, due largely to strong gains in the company’s stock price that boosted the value of the shares he vested during the year. The compensation figure, disclosed Thursday morning in the company’s annual proxy statement, was up 37% from $29.2 million the prior year.

2 weeks ago | geekwire.com | Todd Bishop

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new tool that links AI-generated text to training data, aiming to improve transparency and accountability in artificial intelligence by addressing one of the biggest mysteries in the field. Ai2 says the project, called OLMoTrace, goes further than any other tool to show how the original data used to train large language models may influence what they generate. It converts “a black box to a glass box,” said Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Seattle-based nonprofit.

2 weeks ago | geekwire.com | Todd Bishop

Seattle-based Brinc announced $75 million in new funding and a strategic alliance with Motorola Solutions, aiming to expand production and accelerate deployment of its emergency response drones for police and other U.S. public safety agencies. Under the alliance, Motorola will become a distributor of Brinc’s products. The companies will also integrate elements of their hardware and software — for example, allowing Motorola radios to dispatch drones from citywide Brinc 911 response drone networks.