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07-27-26 -
Warner Bros. Discovery sues Amazon over HBO Max exec hire, seeks order blocki...
Warner Bros. Discovery sued Amazon in Los Angeles County Superior Court over the hiring of HBO Max marketing executive Pia Barlow, alleging Amazon induced her to break a contract that ran through October 2027. The suit asks the court to bar Amazon...
07-27-26 -
Seattle startup Replify acquired by ABC Fitness to bring agentic AI to more g...
Replify's software handles phone calls, emails, chats, and texts for health and wellness businesses, including inbound customer messages as well as proactive outbound marketing." Read More
07-27-26 -
Microsoft escalates the AI security race with Project Perception and a new in...
Microsoft on Monday unveiled Project Perception, an AI cybersecurity system built to defend against AI-driven attacks, aiming to keep pace… Read More
07-27-26 -
Another high for student rocketry team: First place in international competition
Ninth-graders from Interlake High in Bellevue, Wash., soared above teams from France, Japan, the UK, and Ukraine at the Farnborough International Airshow in England. Read More
07-27-26 -
Report: Starbucks scrapped an AI inventory tool and left a Seattle-area start...
Known as "Automated Counting," the tool was built in partnership with NomadGo to scan backroom storage shelves using iPad Pros equipped with computer vision, spatial computing, and augmented reality. Read More
07-27-26 -
Microsoft earnings preview: AI spending, cloud margins, and why the stock kee...
Microsoft reports fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results Wednesday. A look at the key numbers to watch, including capital spending, Azure growth, cloud margins, Copilot adoption and the company's first capital spending forecast for fiscal 202...
07-27-26 -
Tech Moves: Remitly names CISO; Joseph Williams leads cybersecurity ed at WWU...
Seattle's Remitly names a new CISO amid continued leadership shuffling; Seattle tech and public service leader Joseph Williams is director of cybersecurity programs at Western Washington University; and Yoodli hires a VP of product. Read More
07-27-26 -
Jeff Bezos reportedly joining bid to buy stake in English soccer giant Liverp...
Jeff Bezos is reportedly part of an investment group seeking to buy a 30% stake in Liverpool FC, potentially giving the Amazon founder his first ownership interest in a major professional sports franchise. Read More
07-27-26 -
Could nuclear heaters keep astronauts warm on the moon? NASA is funding resea...
Zeno Power Systems will study a concept for putting compact radioisotope heating devices in spacesuits used for extravehicular activity amid frigid lunar conditions. Read More
07-27-26 -
Dopl raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasounds to rural patients as it...
Dopl Technologies announced $6.3 million in new funding to support the development and commercialization of a remotely operated robotic ultrasound… Read More
07-26-26 -
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 19, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of July 19, 2026. Read More
07-25-26 -
Whats going on with Seattle startup funding, a Kalshi setback, Impinjs long g...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Seattle startup funding fell about 40% in the first half of 2026 as AI reshaped the venture market — plus a Kalshi court setback, Impinj's 10 years on the Nasdaq, and could you go without your smartphone for fi...
07-24-26 -
Amazon confirms its closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its...
Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said its frontier model research lab will continue. Read More
07-24-26 -
The Odyssey isnt on IMAX 70mm in Seattle is it worth a journey for the summer...
Want to see "The Odyssey" as director Christopher Nolan intended? Here is how formats and theaters compare across 70mm, IMAX, and digital — and why a road trip may be needed. Read More
07-24-26 -
Defense tech giant Anduril eyes new funding at $100B valuation as Seattle exp...
Defense tech giant Anduril is reportedly seeking a new funding round that would value the company at about $100 billion, underscoring its meteoric rise as it rapidly expands its engineering and maritime operations in the Seattle region. Read More
07-24-26 -
Earth first, Mars later: Inside AIMs grand vision for physical AI and autonom...
From a Redmond, Wash., headquarters space formerly occupied by SpaceX, AIM Intelligent Machines founder and CEO Adam Sadilek and his growing team are building the systems to retrofit heavy construction and mining equipment for a self-driving futur...
07-23-26 -
Tech Moves: Agility Robotics gets CFO; Microsoft security departure; Zaps leg...
Agility Robotics names a CFO ahead of its plans to go public, moving its current CFO/COO into an operations-focused role. Microsoft loses another security leader while Zap Energy gets a chief legal officer. Read More
07-23-26 -
BioLife Solutions to be acquired by Repligen in $1.5B cell therapy deal
BioLife Solutions, a Bothell, Wash.-based company developing tools for cell and gene therapy, is being acquired for $1.5 billion by the life sciences corporation Repligen. Read More
07-23-26 -
Amazon puts Luna gaming service inside its Prime Video app, hoping people fin...
Amazon's cloud gaming service will now be available in a tab inside the Prime Video app for Fire TV users in the U.S. and U.K. The company's gaming chief says one of Luna's biggest challenges is that Prime members don't know it's included with the...
07-23-26 -
Microsoft 2.5: New security business chief Hayete Gallot on the companys push...
Hayete Gallot, who rejoined Microsoft in February to lead its security business, is pushing the company toward "agentic security" — systems that spot threats and act on them without waiting for a human. She's doing it while building a ...
07-22-26 -
Startup Spotlight: MediaPact wants to reinvent digital ads for the AI era
As AI reshapes online search and advertising, Seattle startup MediaPact is building a marketplace to help brands and publishers strike direct sponsorship deals. Founder Lacie Thompson discusses launching the company, using AI to build without codi...
07-22-26 -
Amazon cuts jobs in AGI group as it puts more focus on customer-facing AI
Amazon confirmed layoffs in its artificial general intelligence organization, the group behind its Nova models, as the company sharpens its AI focus toward tools for business customers. The cuts follow a year of leadership turnover in the group an...
07-22-26 -
Game developer Harebrained Schemes kicks off its new indie era with survival-...
The latest game from Seattle-based developer Harebrained Schemes, and its first since its return to independence in 2023, is a dark sci-fi/horror adventure where the player must constantly change and enhance their body in order to survive. Read More
07-22-26 -
Microsoft 2.5: A new series on the people shaping the companys future
Mary Jo Foley is launching a GeekWire series profiling the people and priorities behind Microsoft's evolution. It's a look at what she calls the "Microsoft 2.5" era, where cloud and AI dominate but the company still can't walk away from ...
07-22-26 -
Microsoft commits $60M to Genesis Mission to help power Dept. of Energys AI-f...
The commitment includes Azure compute credits and a new internal program office, called SPARK, to coordinate the company's work with DOE's 17 national laboratories. Read More
07-22-26 -
New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that ...
Docugami, the Kirkland, Wash., startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, is open-sourcing DGML, a format that turns business documents into structured, verifiable data for AI. The company is releasing it under an open-source license and partnering...
07-22-26 -
The greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil
In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, disrupting a funeral industry that had been largely unchanged for decades. Now 14 states have legalized the climate-frien...
07-22-26 -
Mars Society and South Seattle College strike a deal to build a simulated spa...
Partnership would give the Pacific Northwest a role in research missions aimed at blazing a trail to the moon and Mars. Read More
07-22-26 -
Interlune extracts helium-3 from ordinary helium, demonstrating a process it ...
Seattle startup uses cryogenic distillation to produce helium-3 for quantum computing and other applications — initially on Earth, and eventually on the lunar surface. Read More
07-21-26 -
Seattle judge deals blow to Kalshi, rejects prediction markets federal defense
A King County Superior Court judge granted Washington state a preliminary injunction against Kalshi, ruling the prediction market platform is likely running illegal online gambling. The judge rejected Kalshi's argument that federal oversight by th...
07-21-26 -
Grammy-winning artist and entrepreneur Diplo invests in Seattle startup Copper
Seattle startup Copper is getting a high-profile boost from Grammy-winning artist and entrepreneur Diplo, who has invested in the company as it expands its consumer rewards platform. Copper, which says it has more than 4 million members, helps use...
07-21-26 -
The little chips that could: How Impinj has survived 26 years in a market tha...
More than a quarter-century after Impinj was founded, CEO Chris Diorio and team rang the Nasdaq opening bell Tuesday to mark the Seattle RFID chipmaker's 10th anniversary as a public company. GeekWire chronicles the company's ups and downs, and wh...
07-21-26 -
TerraByte AI expands its Earth Search Engine with satellite imagery partnersh...
Startup upgrades 'Earth Search Engine' to open new paths to high-resolution satellite imagery and data-driven insights. Read More
07-21-26 -
Seattles Clarify acquires S.F. startup Seam AI, joining forces to challenge C...
Clarify, the Seattle-based AI startup that has raised more than $22 million to take on Salesforce and other CRM incumbents,… Read More
07-21-26 -
Next-gen battery startup Sila raises $300M to expand manufacturing plant in W...
Sila, a startup producing next-generation battery materials, on Tuesday announced $300 million from investors, which will help fund the expansion of its Moses Lake, Wash., manufacturing plant. Read More
07-20-26 -
Jimothy keeps on giving: Amazon and others match winning bid for raccoon art,...
A painting of the short-spined raccoon by prolific Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward attracted a winning bid of $6,543.21 in an informal Instagram auction this weekend, with all proceeds directed to the Ballard Food Bank. Read More
07-20-26 -
Protesters confront Microsoft CSO over carbon goals and AI, disrupting climat...
A fireside chat with Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa, moderated by GeekWire reporter Lisa Stiffler at a PNW Climate Week closing event, was derailed by protesters raising concerns about data center energy impacts. Read More
07-20-26 -
Veteran Microsoft security executive joins AWS amid broader reshuffle in Redmond
Rudra "Rudy" Mitra, who led Microsoft's Purview data-security business, is joining Amazon Web Services as vice president of security services. His move is part of a broader reshuffling of Microsoft's security leadership this year under n...
07-20-26 -
UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S. engineering hub a...
AI infrastructure company Nscale is expanding its presence in Bellevue with a new U.S. engineering headquarters, adding to the Eastside's growing role as a hub for artificial intelligence talent and cloud computing infrastructure. Read More
07-20-26 -
8-bit Jimothy: Viral sensation raids trash cans, eludes paparazzi in Seattle ...
Jimothy, the short-spined Seattle raccoon, has become a global sensation whose likeness has been immortalized in artwork, clothing, songs and tattoos — and now a video game created in the creature's hometown. Read More
07-19-26 -
Etzioni on AI: Uncle Sam wants a stake in leading AI companies what could pos...
Although bipartisan momentum is building for the federal government to take equity positions in major AI firms, this strategy risks compromising regulatory neutrality unless strict guardrails and sunset clauses are established. Read More
07-19-26 -
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 12, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of July 12, 2026. Read More
07-18-26 -
AI weapons under scrutiny as activists plan weekend protest at Andurils Seatt...
Activists plan a Sunday protest outside Anduril's Seattle office over AI-powered military technology, as the defense company expands its presence in Washington. Read More
07-18-26 -
Silicon Valley icon Vinod Khosla: What kind of Seahawks owner will he be?
Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla's family is leading a group that's buying the Seattle Seahawks for a record $9.6 billion. We dug into hours of his talks and interviews to answer the big questions on this week's GeekWire Podcast. Read More
07-17-26 -
Ditch your smartphone for a flip phone for a month? This group wants Seattlei...
In one of the world’s biggest technology hubs, a growing group of Seattle residents is trying something counterintuitive: spending a month with fewer digital distractions by trading smartphones for “dumb phones Read More
07-17-26 -
Seattle indie hit Stardew Valley is coming to Magic: The Gathering
Stardew Valley, the blockbuster farming sim from solo Seattle developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone, is coming to Magic: The Gathering via a three-part Secret Lair drop from Renton-based Wizards of the Coast — with original pixel art fr...
07-17-26 -
Icertis CEO is departing; contract management company names CFO and board mem...
Anand Subbaraman is departing as CEO of Icertis less than a year after taking the role. CFO Rajat Bahri and board member Jim Moffatt will serve as interim co-CEOs while the Bellevue company searches for a permanent leader. Read More
07-17-26 -
Departing AWS exec Dave Brown is reportedly joining Meta, as Facebook parent ...
Dave Brown, the senior AWS executive whose departure Amazon announced this week, is joining Meta to work on its data center build-out, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The move comes as Meta weighs whether to launch a cloud business of i...
07-17-26 -
Seattle Sounders FC pay tribute to S. Soma Somasegar, beloved tech leader and...
The Seattle Sounders honored the late S. "Soma" Somasegar before Thursday night's match against the Portland Timbers, recognizing the Microsoft and Madrona leader, startup mentor, and Sounders minority owner whose impact extended far bey...
07-17-26 -
Seattle regions office market shows signs of life as AI companies bring stabi...
A new report finds the Seattle-area office market is on steadier footing, helped by AI companies opening engineering hubs across the region. Technology firms accounted for 42.5% of leasing activity in the second quarter. Read More

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