GeekWire Mid-Week Update

Read the top tech stories so far this week from GeekWire [GeekWire Mid-Week Update] Top stories so far this week [Amazon is laying off another 9,000 employees — read the CEO’s memo]( Amazon is cutting 9,000 jobs over the next few weeks in its second round of layoffs over the past three months. [Poet vs. chatbot: We gave the same prompt to a human, Microsoft Bing, and OpenAI’s new GPT-4]( Are robots more poetic than humans? That was my question as I saw Alandra Markman seated on the sidewalk with an old typewriter on a recent brisk Sunday morning at the West Seattle Farmers Market. [Amazon shutting down DPReview, a leading source of digital photography information]( Amazon is shutting down Seattle-based DPReview, a leading online source for news and reviews about digital cameras and photography, the site’s general manager wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. [Expedia Group lays off workers as part of ‘strategic actions’]( Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group made an undisclosed number of layoffs. [Salesforce vets land $8M for employee access management startup]( A longtime cybersecurity executive is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps enterprises monitor and adapt employee permissions. [Twitch cuts 400 jobs as part of Amazon’s latest layoffs]( Twitch announced on Monday that it would lay off “just over 400 people,” part of a new round of layoffs at its parent company Amazon. [Microsoft subsidiary Nuance is using GPT-4 for a new physician notes app]( Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for physicians. [Former oilfield engineers launch climate startup that uses ancient carbon-trapping technology]( Myno Carbon‘s leader calls his team “committed climate warriors.” But it wasn’t always that way. [Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM]( — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. [Bill Gates: AI breakthroughs are the biggest tech advance since the graphical user interface]( One of the pivotal figures in the rise of the graphical user interface says he sees a similar revolution in the new age of artificial intelligence. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): Software Engineer III – DevOps]( - [INRIX: Head of Product – Vision Zero]( - [INRIX: Corporate Controller]( - [GeekWire: GeekWire Advertising Project Manager]( - [Global Innovation Exchange, University of Washington: Technology Services Specialist]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? BUY A FEATURED LISTING TO APPEAR HERE]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise]( Copyright © 2023 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC.  Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 123 NW 36th St, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98107  [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](