Here's how Amazon is bringing Prego and Kraft Mac & Cheese to Whole Foods, using screens on the shelves and robots in a "micro-fulfillment center." This was reported recently by @wsj.com and officially confirmed today, with a video showing how it works. My take: www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ama...

10 years ago today ... www.geekwire.com/2015/amazons...

New this morning: OpenAI’s $38B cloud deal with Amazon takes ChatGPT maker further beyond Microsoft

Funny twist on the old "did not respond to a request for comment."
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Because this week hasn't been crazy enough, somehow I ended up feeling compelled to do an impromptu deep dive on Amazon's tax situation this morning. Fascinating to see how legislation ripples so quickly through corporate finances.

1/ For an evening diversion, I couldn't help but start putting the newly released JFK files into Google's NotebookLM, in batches, to see what turned up. I'll leave the real reporting to the experts in the field. But here's a fascinating story that the AI turned up, unrelated to the assassination.

Ali Farhadi joined the @geekwire.com podcast with @toddbishop.bsky.social to talk about:
🧠 The state of AI industry post-DeepSeek
📈 The building momentum around truly open AI
📲 Why on-device AI was a priority with OLMoE
💡 How we will use AI to solve real problems in 2025

Listen: buff.ly/41kjuoR

‘Open source will win’: Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi on the new era of artificial intelligence https://www.geekwire.com/2025/open-source-will-win-allen-institute-for-ai-ceo-ali-farhadi-on-the-new-era-of-artificial-intelligence/

Researchers led by University of Washington Nobel winner achieve a scientific breakthrough https://www.geekwire.com/2025/researchers-led-by-university-of-washington-nobel-winner-achieve-a-scientific-breakthrough/

"The big things, the valuable things, the things that drive the world, in a computing sense, are also blessedly the boring things." — Corey Quinn (@quinnypig.com), offering a reality check on the AI hype as our guest on this week's @geekwire.bsky.social podcast. www.geekwire.com/2025/podcast...

Trying something new here: Amazon's quarterly results for the three months ended Dec. 31 2024, in four charts.

Here is Microsoft's new bid to boost enterprise AI adoption: A new Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience, announced Wednesday morning, will give business users free access to basic AI features, and to AI agents on a pay-as-you-go basis, without paying $30/user/month. www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

Dr. Rhythm meets AI: I had fun over the holiday break blending a vintage 1980s drum synthesizer from my youth (a Boss DR-110, circa 1983) with my own plunking and strumming on guitar, and an AI music generator.

Can anyone explain the reason for the everpresent hard-rock music bed that plays during the highlights on @espn.com SportsCenter?

Microsoft released the results of shareholder voting today, from its annual meeting. None of the shareholder proposals was approved, but it's interesting to look at the numbers. Almost no support for investing in Bitcoin, whereas a call for scrutiny of AI data sources received the most votes (36%).

Looking for a good AI tool to easily and quickly identify the best/clearest photos from a large set like this. Any advice?

Hello Bluesky! I'm using the "Sky Follower Bridge" plugin for Chrome/Edge to find the people I forgot I followed on another platform. Is that the right way? Anyway, feels like a reunion. This newcomer welcomes any and all advice from vets about making the most of it. Look forward to reconnecting.