Lisa Stiffler

Movable shelving towers that hold items that are autonomously moved to Amazon employees who pack them for shipping. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler)

Amazon is accused of artificially inflating the ad prices on its e-commerce site in a lawsuit filed Monday by Washington's attorney general, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 21 other states.

Seattle startup NewDays raised $16 million to scale its combination of telehealth clinicians and an AI companion named Sunny for treating mild dementia. Early research shows the platform can help preserve cognitive function by up to 18 months, and the company is now expanding across six states.

The University of Washington on Thursday celebrated the opening of a public-access battery manufacturing lab that aims to propel energy innovation.

Aneesh Raman. (LinkedIn Photo) --- Aneesh Raman has taken the role of chief economic opportunity officer at Microsoft. He previously held the same title

Former national lab scientist and current Washington State University President Betsy Cantwell uses custom AI agents to de-risk research and model complex financial scenarios for college athletics. But the top cougar believes artificial intelligence can never replace human wonder in education and rejects the algorithms to predict outcomes like this weekend's Apple Cup.

WSU President Betsy Cantwell is a full-on techie. She spent more than two decades in national laboratories working on space exploration, energy

— Telecom giant T-Mobile announced that Jessica Uhl will join as chief financial officer-designate later this month, and succeed Peter Osvaldik as CFO in February.

Helion Energy , in its hard-charging pursuit of fusion energy, has opened an office in downtown Seattle as its headcount swells to 800 employees.

— has been named corporate vice president of Worldwide Telco & Media within the Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative launched by