Snap acquires assets from Rec Room as social gaming platform announces shutdown

Snap has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., with some employees joining the Spectacles hardware subsidiary, as the ...

Portal Space’s ‘Mini-Nova’ payload goes into orbit to test technologies for maneuverable space vehicles

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket provides a piggyback ride for Portal's instrument package and more than 100 other payloads.

Rec Room shutting down: Once valued at $3.5B, social gaming platform finds profits elusive

Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming platform once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down on June 1, ending a ...

Opinion: AI coach or AI ghostwriter? The choice is yours

AI is a fork in the road disguised as a shortcut. Down one path, it’s a coach that studies your weaknesses, challenges your ...

GPT drafts, Claude critiques: Microsoft blends rival AI models in new Copilot upgrade

Microsoft is using Anthropic's Claude to fact-check work done by OpenAI's GPT inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, blending its new ...

‘Transformative’: Amazon and Microsoft celebrate opening of light rail line between Seattle and Eastside

Amazon's David Zapolsky and Microsoft's Brad Smith both posted videos on social media touting the Crosslake Connection as a ...

Singapore’s PixVerse picks Seattle area for its first U.S. office amid $300M funding round

The Singapore unicorn PixVerse has landed in Bellevue, Wash., with a new $1 billion valuation and a veteran leader from ...

Report: Amazon buys 1,300 acres near Columbia River that could become a giant data center

Amazon has purchased 1,300 acres in Boardman, Ore., for a potential $12 billion "exascale" data center campus capable of ...

Orbital AI: Seattle-area startup Starcloud hits $1.1B valuation to build space-based data centers

Redmond, Wash., startup Starcloud has raised $170 million and hit a $1.1 billion valuation building solar-powered data ...

Microsoft VP’s memoir of growing up in India makes unexpected case for what matters in the age of AI

Ravi Vedula leads the data and insights organization behind Microsoft 365 and Copilot. His new book is about cricket, colony life, but more importantly, the system of values that he learned as a kid ...

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