Baird analyst Colin Sebastian joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Amazon, Google, and Meta’s AI strategies, tech investing trends, and how today’s AI boom compares to the dot-com era.

Amazon, YouTube, and Netflix will be big winners as AI shakes up Hollywood, Morgan Stanley says. Their limited live sports exposure may be an asset.

Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus will train on Hearst and Condé Nast publications as part of a multi-year agreement.

Employees allege AI for ADA violas the law and their rights. Here’s what the law really says — and why human judgment still matters.

The secret initiative aims to scour the web for product data and images, and use that to improve product listings on Amazon's giant marketplace

Microsoft, the second largest cloud provider, has followed Amazon's lead and made strides in chip development. In 2023, the company designed its own systems called Sidekicks to cool the Maia AI chips it developed.

According to TechCrunch, AWS will announce this AI agent marketplace at its AWS Summit event in New York City on July 15. The marketplace will enable startups to sell AI agents directly on the platform, and for businesses to demo and deploy agents directly to their AWS-powered software.

It’s the latest in a string of organized digital attacks as AI bots are increasingly passed off as user profiles.

Meanwhile, tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft are slashing their workforce amid massive spending to build and deploy new AI models.

Shares of Vertiv Holdings, a leader in data-center cooling solutions, were falling Thursday after Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services announced the development of a new cooling system of its own. Analysts,