Salesforce rolls out Tableau AI feature in its flagship platform | Seattle startup studio taps Amazon leadership chops

Salesforce adopts Tableau’s AI: Five years after acquiring the Seattle-based data visualization company for $15.7 billion, Salesforce is rolling out one of its biggest Tableau integrations yet, offering the AI-powered “Tableau Pulse” feature in the core Salesforce customer relationship management platform. With the move, Tableau is “becoming more relevant to a larger audience,” Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay tells GeekWire. Read more.

Jelly Collective , the latest startup studio to surface in Seattle, is led by former longtime leaders at Amazon who are applying the tech giant’s principles to their new endeavor. “We are 100% customer and problem-obsessed,” said Jelly founder Stacy Saal . Read more.

Zonar Systems layoffs: The Seattle-based automotive fleet tech company laid off 57 workers as its parent company Continental considers a restructuring effort. Read more.

Tech Moves: Avanade CEO Pamela Maynard is headed to Microsoft; Seattle gaming vet Jordan Weisman launches new project; and more personnel changes.?

Today’s trending story: A federal judge in Seattle has sided with Boeing and is throwing out a jury verdict that called for the aerospace giant to pay $72 million to Zunum Aero, a Seattle-area aviation startup it once supported. Read more.

Hot Links

• Four sustainable aviation projects in Washington state received more than $36 million in grant funding. (Sen. Maria Cantwell)

• Microsoft is previewing a way to make file sharing between Windows PCs and Android devices more like using Apple’s Airdrop feature. (ZDNet)
• “Share data or die”: That is the difficult and potentially existential question facing site publishers deciding whether or not to block Google’s AI bot. (Bloomberg)
• Seattle fintech startup TappAlpha launched its first exchange-traded fund. (Yahoo Finance)

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