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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

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GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco. Microsoft does not have a seat on the OpenAI board. At the event, on Nov.

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As AI use surges, tech companies race to secure clean energy and preserve climate goals

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Microsoft has an agreement with the startup to purchase its clean power — if the company is able to produce it. Meanwhile, Amazon and Microsoft continue to ink green power deals. 1 corporate purchaser of clean power globally, while Microsoft is No. Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) The companies acknowledge the worries.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Prior to Microsoft, Didascalou was an executive at Nokia and previously worked for Siemens’ mobile phones division earlier in his career. He will start in September.

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

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billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference ; and a new tech giant arrives in our backyard. He said he hopes business leaders, nonprofit leaders, community leaders, and political leaders will recognize the consequences of those changes and as they set regional strategy and policy.

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Tech Moves: AWS product head joins Faculty; Bezos Earth Fund hires BlackRock leader; and more

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(LinkedIn Photo) — Jacob Sullivan is now chief product officer at Faculty, a London-based company that builds artificial intelligence systems. Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications.

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

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From left: Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon, Microsoft researcher Jonathan Carlson, Deepcell CEO Maddison Masaeli, and moderator Chris Picardo, a Madrona venture partner. And that gets in the way of taking full advantage of using artificial intelligence technology. GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert).