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IT companies join Ukraine war sanctions against Russia

CIO Business Intelligence

Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks. The following is an overview — without claiming to be exhaustive — of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. How the IT industry reacted. Petersburg.

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AI and telecom breakthroughs dominate ‘Innovation of the Year’ category for 2024 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The company, founded in 2018 by Robby Hamblet and Michael Johnston, Jr., The Seattle startup’s tools analyze AI systems to help software developers identify and address security threats, and build secure AI systems by design. has raised more than $20 million in funding to date.

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Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup

GeekWire

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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Microsoft reports a Majorana development in its quest to build quantum computers

GeekWire

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other cloud-based services are already using hybrid systems to bring some of the benefits of the quantum approach to applications ranging from drug development to traffic management.

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Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises $20M for third fund, bets big on generative AI

GeekWire

Founded in 2015, the Seattle-based firm is one of more than 800 studios that generate ideas and recruit people to lead new companies. ” The studio’s own engineers are using generative AI and LLMs (large language models) to speed software development as they work on new ideas. .

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

GeekWire

The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III Inc. The SPAC is targeting companies in “three separate areas of the life sciences industry that are often fragmented — life sciences tools, synthetic biology and diagnostics.” “The quality of the sponsor and the target company profile matters.”