GeekWire Podcast: Apple acquires Xnor.ai; Microsoft’s bold climate plan; Seattle startup trivia

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Apple doubled down on synthetic intelligence and boosted its presence in Seattle with the acquisition of Xnor.ai, an Allen Institute for Synthetic Intelligence spinout with roots on the College of Washington, as first reported by GeekWire this week.

It was a win for these establishments, and buyers together with Seattle’s Madrona Enterprise Group, but it surely’s additionally an instance of an bold startup promoting to a tech big earlier than it has the possibility to turn into one itself. So how ought to we take a look at offers like this?

Plus, Microsoft’s bold plan to go “carbon adverse” places the tech firm on the forefront of company efforts to deal with the worldwide environmental disaster. We discover what it means for the corporate, for its rivalry with Amazon, and for the planet.

And in our remaining section, it’s the GeekWire Trivia Problem, with an opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the upcoming GeekWire Awards. What do Jonas Salk, who found and developed the polio vaccine, and John Ehrlichman, the Nixon aide and Watergate determine, have in widespread because it pertains to Seattle startups? Take heed to the third section and ship your reply to [email protected] for an opportunity to win.

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