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 [Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO]( — Emily Freeman, head of community for Amazon Web Services, is departing. [Amazon restructures seller fees to match its regional fulfillment strategy amid FTC lawsuit]( Amazon will change the way it charges sellers who use its fulfillment services, introducing a new fee aligned with its regional hub strategy. [Walmart tech vet, AI2 research scientists are behind new Seattle startup Spiffy]( A group of “LLM hipsters” are behind a new AI startup in Seattle emerging from stealth mode and aiming to rethink how retail companies engage with customers. [Uncommon Thinkers: UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare ‘creative brilliance’]( Editor’s Note: This is part of a series profiling â€œUncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change. [Seattle startup Joon raises $6M to expand online mental health therapy for youth]( Teletherapy startup Joon Care raised $6 million from investors to extend the company’s runway as it grows its mental health software platform. [With new Gemini model, Google tries to set a new standard in AI race vs. OpenAI and Microsoft]( Google started to roll out its long-awaited Gemini multimodal artificial intelligence model Wednesday morning, touting its ability to natively process and reason across different inputs like text, images, video, and code. [Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers]( Seattle Children’s is spinning out BrainChild Bio, a biotech startup tackling cancer in the central nervous system with an initial focus on treatments for children. [Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public]( No VC, no problem. Airship AI, an under-the-radar tech startup that didn’t raise a single dime of investment, will soon become a publicly traded company after clearing SEC regulations this week for its SPAC deal. [‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood]( Conference attendees in Las Vegas are accustomed to encountering people standing on the street, aggressively trying to hand them flyers for, well, let’s just say for a variety of different services. [Seattle-based health software company Valant sold to another private equity firm]( Valant Medical Solutions, a Seattle startup that develops software to help behavioral health practitioners manage billing and electronic medical records at their offices, has been sold to Resurgens Technology Partners, a private equity firm based in Atlanta. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [INRIX: Finance Pricing Manager]( - [City of Redlands: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst]( - [Seattle Sounders FC: Director of Lifecycle Marketing]( - [City of Newport: Systems Administrator I or II]( - [INRIX: Lead Software Engineer, Big Data]( - [INRIX: Lead Software Engineer]( [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](