This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is engaged on a brand new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” greater than a decade after the Hearth Telephone debacle, in response to Reuters.
We dig into the connection to a previous GeekWire scoop: former Microsoft Xbox chief J Allard joined Amazon’s units crew in 2024, and he’s now main a bunch known as ZeroOne with a mandate to create “breakthrough” devices. Is that this an AI-native gadget? A companion to your iPhone? J Allard’s shot at redemption? Perhaps the entire above.
There’s extra nice Hearth Telephone background on this Vergecast “Model Historical past” podcast.
Then: Microsoft shakes up its Copilot crew, shifting Mustafa Suleyman to a narrower position and unifying shopper and enterprise AI underneath a brand new chief. Todd has robust emotions about Microsoft’s historical past of cutesy shopper tech, from Clippy to Mico.
Plus: Todd’s journey utilizing Claude CoWork to browse LinkedIn (and the strict warning he acquired in response). We additionally talk about King County Metro’s slick new tap-to-pay characteristic catches the transit system up with the trendy world, the upcoming opening of cross-lake gentle rail, and spherical issues out with an Amazon Treasure Truck trivia query.
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Audio enhancing by Curt Milton.
