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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. The Seattle startup offers clients a community of “Interview Engineers” who use its software to conduct first-round technical interviews. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Fukiko Ogisu.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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Startup of the Year: Vote for the hottest up-and-coming company at the GeekWire Awards

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Seattle enterprise software startup Ally won last year’s award for a category that has honored companies such as Crowd Cow, Convoy, Arivale, Rover, and others in the past. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. Common Room Photo). Ozette Photos). SeekOut Photo).

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Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep people on task

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based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get stuff done, has checked a major item off its to-do list: the company has raised $3 million from Apollo Projects , the venture fund run by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his brothers. Shelpful Photo) Shelpful , a Portland, Ore.-based

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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” (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is making a big new investment in OpenAI , the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, extending a partnership that has the potential to reshape some of its biggest products. Microsoft said last week it will soon make ChatGPT available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that. Suddenly, for the first time, the power of AI was accessible to non-technologists. This immediately opened the potential to tap more value from legacy systems.”

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. Based in Tampa, Fla., Michelle Newbery (left) and Karthik Sivakumar.

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