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10-27-26 -
AI optimism meets data center backlash as protesters disrupt Seattle AI Week ...
Climate activists from the group Troublemakers interrupted the opening panel of Seattle AI Week several times on Monday, objecting to the push to build more data centers. Former Gov. Chris Gregoire, Gov. Bob Ferguson’s policy advisor and Seattle...
10-26-26 -
Stoke Space lines up $150M Pentagon loan for a second launch pad in Florida
The conditional financing would help the Kent, Wash.-based startup build infrastructure for Nova Block 2, a bigger rocket due to debut in 2029. Read More
10-26-26 -
Former GitHub CEO launches rival platform built for AI coding agents
Entire, the startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, launched a platform for hosting and reviewing code that it\'s pitching as an alternative to GitHub. The company says its Trails feature, which replaces the pull request, uses AI agen...
10-26-26 -
Microsoft makes new voluntary exit offer to about a quarter of its workforce,...
Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and India, with no age or tenure requirement. The package is equivalent to the company\'s standard severance, and Microsoft expects a much smaller share of ...
10-26-26 -
Not a new AI center: Seattle Childrens launches $10M pediatric innovation ins...
Seattle Children’s is putting $10 million into a new institute to bring tools such as AI, genome sequencing and new medical devices into everyday care for kids. Its new CEO says the focus is on solving problems, not chasing shiny technology — ...
10-26-26 -
T-Mobiles new T-Mix plans let customers trade phone deals for Netflix, ESPN a...
T-Mobile’s new T-Mix plans give customers a set number of “Picks” to spend on perks such as Netflix, ESPN and Xbox Game Pass, or on a new phone, starting at $55 a month for one line. Customers can swap their perks every 90 days, but phones a...
10-25-26 -
Etzioni on AI: $137M spent on AI-generated midterm ads, and most voters cant ...
Oren Etzioni, who founded the deepfake detection nonprofit TrueMedia.org, says the AI political ads he predicted have arrived, from American campaigns rather than foreign operatives. He proposes a rule: If the person shown didn’t agree, the ad g...
10-25-26 -
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 18, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 18, 2026. Read More
10-24-26 -
Exit interview: Microsofts comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong,...
Microsoft communications chief Frank X. Shaw, who is leaving the company at the end of the year, reflects on nearly three decades of shaping its public image. He talks about working for Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella, the mistakes he�...
10-24-26 -
Amazon ends its six-year legal fight with former AWS managers over alleged da...
Two former Amazon real estate managers acknowledged receiving personal payments tied to data center deals they handled for the company,… Read More
10-23-26 -
The Garage never should have existed: Why Microsofts grassroots innovation la...
Microsoft Garage co-founder Quinn Hawkins explains how the employee innovation program outlasted bigger, better-funded efforts inside Microsoft for 17 years, as the company winds it down. He credits four choices, including backing people who built...
10-23-26 -
New facility at Washington national lab will give researchers free access to ...
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is building a facility where automated instruments will grow and study microbes, taking on some of the repetitive work scientists do by hand. When it opens in 2029, researchers will be able to apply to ...
10-23-26 -
Watching fruit ripen pays off: Seattle ag-tech startup Strella lands $4.25M
Seattle startup Strella raised $4.25 million to expand its technology that tracks how fruit is ripening as it moves from growers to grocery stores. The goal is to help businesses spot potential spoilage and waste less food. Read More
10-23-26 -
Icertis veterans reunite as AI startup HumanTronik acquires tech consultancy ...
HumanTronik, an AI startup co-founded this year by Icertis co-founder Monish Darda, has acquired tech consultancy CloudMoyo, which Darda helped spin out of Icertis in 2015 with Manish Kedia, who remains CloudMoyo\'s CEO. The family of the lat...
10-23-26 -
Data farmers: Ag-tech startup Aigen grows AI-generated weeds to train its sol...
With diesel prices up sharply and digital plants speeding up training, the Redmond, Wash., startup is taking on new crops and new customers for its solar-powered weeding robots. Read More
10-22-26 -
Startup Spotlight: Ex-Amazon duo finds the right fit for indie artists with a...
Loomerang works by handling everything but the art on T-shirts. Artists open storefronts for free, set their own prices, and get 60% of what’s left after manufacturing costs. The company prints, inspects and ships every order. Read More
10-22-26 -
Fusion startup Helion lines up potential $175M CHIPS award to develop advance...
Helion, the Everett, Wash., startup chasing fusion energy, is expanding its semiconductor work with a potential $175 million federal award and plans for more than 100 local jobs. The goal is to develop U.S.-made chips that can more efficiently han...
10-22-26 -
Ex-Marine and Microsoft vets launch Watchtower Labs with $35M to bring AI to ...
The Bellevue-based defense tech startup, co-founded by a former Marine special operations officer and two longtime Microsoft engineering leaders, is building AI and simulation software to help military planners anticipate logistics needs. Read More
10-21-26 -
Tech Moves: 2 Microsoft execs depart; Kymeta hires former CIA leader; Alaska ...
Satellite communications company Kymeta added a former CIA deputy director to its C-suite; Alaska Airlines named its first chief information technology officer; and Microsoft saw three departure and the return of a former leader. Read More
10-21-26 -
Microsoft taps Stripe co-founder John Collison for its board as two longtime ...
Microsoft has nominated Stripe co-founder and President John Collison to its board, according to the company\'s annual proxy statement, filed Wednesday. The proxy also shows that Disney CFO Hugh Johnston, chair of the board\'s audit comm...
10-21-26 -
Endurance Energy hits a brief milestone in its quest for undersea geothermal ...
Seattle startup Endurance Energy put a small power plant on the ocean floor off Oregon and briefly generated more electricity than the system used. The run lasted just 8.7 seconds, but it gives the company a starting point for testing whether unde...
10-21-26 -
Portal Space Systems reaches orbit for the second time this year with Starbur...
Within hours of deployment, the Bothell, Wash.-based company reported that the desk-sized craft had established ground communications, stabilized itself, and successfully deployed its solar array to become power positive. Read More
10-21-26 -
UW protein institute led by Nobel winner unveils its first AI model co-develo...
UW’s Institute for Protein Design and Nvidia have released their first jointly developed AI model for creating proteins with specific jobs. The release follows a computing grant from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang\'s foundation that IPD director a...
10-21-26 -
New fuel, same planes: Inside the bid to clean up air travel with cooking oil...
A Washington startup and a Montana refinery are turning captured carbon, cooking oil and animal fats into cleaner jet fuel that today’s airplanes can burn. Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, could shrink flying’s climate footprint, but the sec...
10-21-26 -
Difficult relationship: UW task force proposes splitting Allen School from Co...
A University of Washington task force recommends splitting the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering from the College of Engineering. UW leaders will decide in spring 2027. Read More
10-20-26 -
Clevelands big lesson for Seattle: A citys job is to attract people
Seattle’s prosperity isn’t guaranteed. As the region confronts economic uncertainty and the next wave of tech growth shifts toward AI, Cleveland offers a cautionary tale — and a reminder that the city’s future depends on attracting people,...
10-20-26 -
Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackat...
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hacka...
10-20-26 -
Autonomous flight startup Reliable Robotics opens Seattle area radar hub as v...
Reliable Robotics is opening a new engineering hub in Bothell to advance autonomous flight technology, tapping Seattle’s aerospace talent as the California startup raises $115 million and surpasses a $1 billion valuation. Read More
10-20-26 -
Amazon plans record 300k holiday hires as the rest of retail pulls back
Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 people for the holidays, up 20% from last year, and will give seasonal employees who work at least 30 hours a week healthcare from their first day starting Jan. 1. Read More
10-20-26 -
From dishes to diapers: Seattle home-help startup Rosie raises $7M, eyes Aust...
Rosie, founded by two Amazon veterans, sells monthly memberships that families use to book vetted caregivers for childcare and household work. The company says it reached seven-figure annual recurring revenue within eight months of launch. Read More
10-20-26 -
Seattle ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics reduces workforce, citing economic co...
The company did not disclose the total number of layoffs, but confirmed that the cuts affected employees across multiple departments both in the U.S. and internationally. Read More
10-19-26 -
Dont wait for somebody else to fix it: T-Mobile exec Deeanne King on cutting ...
While many big companies quietly scale back their carbon targets, T-Mobile says its emissions are 50% lower than in 2020. Chief People Officer Deeanne King shares her inspiration for sustainability work, personal eco-changes she’s made and a cli...
10-19-26 -
Amazon challenges Nvidias software advantage with new tool for its own AI chips
Amazon\'s TorchNeuron software runs code written in PyTorch, the open-source framework used by many AI developers, on its Trainium chips after a basic configuration change. Amazon is opening it to all developers as a public beta and releasing...
10-19-26 -
Microsoft unveils tools to monitor and corral rogue AI agents
New features in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception will assess each agent\'s risk, with the ability to block it from making changes, require human intervention or shut it down. Read More
10-18-26 -
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 11, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 11, 2026. Read More
10-17-26 -
Amazons AI wearable, Bookings return to Expedias backyard, and LinkedIns not-...
Amazon\'s Bee devices can now turn things you say into shopping suggestions, Booking Holdings is launching an Seattle-based AI travel venture called Vayo, and four of LinkedIn\'s top 10 Seattle startups aren\'t based in the region. ...
10-16-26 -
Amazons new Bee AI devices have a bystander problem, says former AWS security...
Jeff Williams, now chief information security officer at Sigma360, says the consent prompt and indicator light on Amazon\'s Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse reach the wearer, not the people being recorded. Amazon pointed to safeguards including a...
10-16-26 -
Etzioni on AI: The colorful and cranky language of the AI era, from slop to slap
Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld define more than 35 phrases of the AI era, from AI slop and deepfakes to bragawatts and P(doom), and coin a few of their own, including AI slap, promptatory and agentsomnia. Read More
10-16-26 -
Traffic data pioneer Inrix to be acquired by Allstates Arity after more than ...
Seattle-area traffic data pioneer Inrix is selling substantially all of its assets to Arity, a mobility data subsidiary of Allstate. The acquisition ends a 22-year run as an independent tech company for the former Microsoft spinout, which had prev...
10-16-26 -
Retro tech meets modern AI: Inside an Amazon developers garage turned working...
Darko Mesaros, a distinguished developer advocate at AWS, has packed his Maple Valley, Wash., home with more than 1,000 pieces of vintage computing history — and the tattooed tech geek is wiring old machines to talk to modern AI. Read More
10-15-26 -
Amazons NBA coverage adds Prime 360 AI replays that fly the camera through t...
Amazon is using AI and AWS chips to rebuild NBA plays in 3D for its second season of \"NBA on Prime,\" which debuts next week and also adds Yahoo fantasy stats and its first exclusive Eastern Conference Finals coverage. Read More
10-15-26 -
A two-person Seattle startup lands $1M to reinvent energy-hungry chips suitab...
Seattle startup TriMagnetix raised new funding to build chips that use electrical pulses to process data with a fraction of the energy traditional semiconductors require. The two-person team is setting its sights on space first, where satellite co...
10-15-26 -
Leaked list shows what Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants are giving for...
Microsoft committed $10 million to President Trump\'s White House ballroom project, and Amazon and T-Mobile each committed $5 million, according to a donor list obtained by the Washington Post. The donations aren\'t subject to campaign f...
10-15-26 -
Microsofts Brad Smith pushes back on Vice President JD Vances visa fraud accu...
Someone \"failed to inform the vice president accurately about our numbers\" before blocking Microsoft from sponsoring foreign workers for permanent residency, asserts Brad Smith, the company\'s president and vice chair, in an inter...
10-15-26 -
Startup Spotlight: Zeacon aims to turn website visitors into buyers with AI-p...
Zeacon uses AI to personalize website content, analyze visitor behavior and identify bot traffic, helping businesses understand what turns website visits into sales. Read More
10-15-26 -
Lime tops 10.5M Seattle rides in 2026, rolling past last years e-bike and sco...
Powered by a massive surge during the summer\'s FIFA World Cup matches in Seattle and a record-breaking Seahawks Super Bowl parade, the milestone highlights how deeply e-bikes and scooters have embedded themselves into Seattle’s daily commu...
10-15-26 -
Seattle-area innovators shine on Times Best Inventions list, from tactile tab...
Seattle-area startups like OneCourt, Yoodli, and Tin Can made the list alongside tech giants Amazon and SpaceX — while Microsoft was left off entirely. Read More
10-15-26 -
Space propulsion startup Agile Space opens Seattle-area engineering office to...
Situated in the Sunset North office complex along Interstate 90 in Bellevue, the nearly 5,740-square-foot space will initially house a half-dozen existing employees while scaling up to accommodate an engineering team of 20 to 30 people. Read More
10-15-26 -
Amazons new AI devices can listen to conversations and suggest things to buy ...
Bee, the AI wearables startup Amazon acquired last year, will turn products people mention in everyday conversations into shopping suggestions on Amazon.com for users who opt in and subscribe to Bee Pro. Amazon also unveiled two new Bee devices an...
10-14-26 -
Institute led by UW Nobel winner uses AI to build molecular scissors targetin...
Led by Nobel laureate David Baker, researchers at UW Medicine\'s Institute for Protein Design have used AI to engineer reusable molecular \"scissors\" capable of repeatedly destroying target proteins linked to diseases like Alzheime...

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