04-28-26 -

T-Mobile enlists Starlink satellites for new SuperBroadband business internet...
T-Mobile unveiled SuperBroadband, a business internet service that combines its 5G network with SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation to provide two independent connectivity pathways. Read More

04-28-26 -

Amazon earnings preview: Big AI deals meet a $200B spending binge
Amazon reports Q1 earnings Wednesday with a $244 billion cloud backlog and blockbuster deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but investors are watching whether the company's $200 billion spending plan is starting to pay off. Read More

04-27-26 -

Inside the courthouse as Elon Musks suit against OpenAI and Microsoft goes to...
Amid the feud between two of tech’s most polarizing personalities, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, Microsoft might seem like a subplot, but its actions are at the heart of the case. We're at the courthouse in Oakland as jury selection begins. Read More

04-27-26 -

Microsoft and OpenAI revamp partnership, with trial in Elon Musk suit set to ...
Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership Monday, making Microsoft's IP license non-exclusive and opening all OpenAI products to any cloud provider. It came just as jury selection began in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Op...

04-27-26 -

Oprah goes Prime: Amazon secures multi-year rights to talk show queens video ...
Amazon secures a multi-year deal with Oprah Winfrey for new video podcasts and her 25-year talk show library to bolster its streaming strategy. Read More

04-27-26 -

Late-night name drop: Seattle startup Tin Can achieves cultural milestone
Jimmy Kimmel casually referenced Tin Can's screenless phone for kids during his monologue last week, shortly after the startup landed a glowing NYT Wirecutter review. The company has grown to 30 employees and sold hundreds of thousands of phones. ...

04-27-26 -

Microsoft earnings preview: After a $357B wipeout, tech giant gets another ch...
Microsoft reports fiscal Q3 results Wednesday. Here's a preview of the key numbers, storylines, and context heading into the report, including Azure growth expectations, Copilot adoption, capital spending, and the organizational changes reshaping ...

04-26-26 -

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 19, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 19, 2026. Read More

04-26-26 -

An AI haters guide to keeping LLMs as far from your workflow as possible in 2026
A freelance gaming journalist's guide to ditching Chrome, Office, Gmail, Photoshop, and other AI-infested tools in favor of alternatives that just do the normal stuff. Read More

04-25-26 -

AI, fungi, and the future of enterprise tech: Industry vet Bill Hilf on his d...
A new sci-fi thriller from enterprise technology veteran and Ai2 board chair Bill Hilf imagines an AI built on living biology that escapes human control. Underneath the plot: an argument that the industry is thinking about AI the wrong way. Read More

04-24-26 -

Internal memo: Five senior execs out at Qualtrics as new CEO restructures lea...
Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard shook up the company’s senior leadership team on Friday at its dual headquarters in downtown Seattle and Provo, Utah, less than three months after taking the helm of the experience management technology company. Read ...

04-24-26 -

Tech Moves: Expedia names CFO; former Tune CEO leaves Roku; Amazon and Micros...
Expedia Group named Derek Andersen as its new CFO; Peter Hamilton left Roku for an upcoming CEO role; and more tech moves. Read More

04-24-26 -

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to use Amazons Graviton chips for agentic AI
Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon's Graviton5 processor cores for agentic AI workloads, the latest major customer win for Amazon's growing custom silicon business. Read More

04-24-26 -

Seattle HR leaders candid book offers practical insights for building a busin...
Mikaela Kiner's "The Reverb Way" draws on 15 years at Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks and a decade running her own firm to offer practical advice for founders and business owners, while being honest about the personal struggles, health ...

04-23-26 -

Its just Xbox: Microsoft gaming leaders start new era with old name, new metr...
A strategic memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty lays out the division's vision, including a new internal metric, a name change, and plans to reevaluate game exclusivity and AI. Read More

04-23-26 -

A nuclear first: TerraPower officially starts construction on next-gen Natriu...
TerraPower is officially moving dirt on its facility in Wyoming, making it the first company in the U.S. to break ground on a next-generation nuclear plant. Read More

04-23-26 -

Brute-force attack linked Rec Room user phone numbers to online identities
Someone misused Rec Room's friend-finder feature to match phone numbers to the user names of hundreds of thousands of players on the social gaming platform — assembling a database that connects their online identities directly to their real-worl...

04-23-26 -

Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to thousands of employees in a firs...
Microsoft is offering a voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year history, giving thousands of long-serving U.S. employees a chance to leave with a financial payout and extended healthcare as it works to control costs amid a m...

04-23-26 -

Opinion: Which capitalism are we defending?
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer responds to Chris DeVore's recent call for Democrats to embrace capitalism, arguing that the real question isn't whether to support free markets but which version of capitalism America should be building. Re...

04-23-26 -

Iridius, led by Microsoft and AWS vets, raises $8.6M to crack AIs regulatory ...
Seattle startup Iridius, founded by former Microsoft and AWS leaders, is building software that embeds regulatory compliance into AI systems as they run. Accenture is both an investor and a strategic partner. Read More

04-22-26 -

Amazon names AWS exec Prasad Kalyanaraman to S-team, promotes Dave Brown to SVP
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy added AWS infrastructure leader Prasad Kalyanaraman to the company's S-team and promoted Dave Brown to senior vice president, according to an internal memo viewed by GeekWire. Read More

04-22-26 -

LinkedIn CEO change: Daniel Shapero takes the helm as Microsoft broadens lead...
LinkedIn COO Daniel Shapero is the company's new CEO, reporting to Ryan Roslansky, who oversees LinkedIn and Microsoft Office. Roslansky also named Mohak Shroff as president of platforms and digital work as the company scales its leadership around...

04-22-26 -

Washington state flunks school phone policy rankings
Washington received an "F" for its lack of statewide school cellphone restrictions. While other states move toward "bell-to-bell" bans, it's opting for more research. Read More

04-22-26 -

Seattle report says gig worker pay law is working, countering claims by DoorD...
Seattle's Office of Labor Standards released its first report analyzing data from the five largest delivery platforms, finding that worker pay increased and order volume grew under the city's gig worker minimum payment ordinance. DoorDash and outs...

04-22-26 -

From the scurfy mouse to the Nobel Prize: How a Seattle biotech pioneers long...
From a Bill Gates-backed startup in the mid '90s to the Nobel stage in 2025, Fred Ramsdell reveals how "patient capital" and a mutation found in a 1940s mouse helped unlocked immune system secrets. Read More

04-22-26 -

Brev raises $3.3M for AI agents that keep companies on track with goals
Brev, a startup with roots in Seattle's tech scene, has raised $3.3 million in pre-seed funding for AI tools that automatically track how companies are performing against their goals. The company's AI agents join meetings, update goals, flag risks...

04-22-26 -

Seattle high schoolers Google Doodle pays tribute to hair and family history ...
Kameirah Johnson, a senior at Seattle's Lakeside School, is one of five students nationwide whose artwork will appear on the Google homepage later this month. Read More

04-21-26 -

Starbucks cuts tech jobs as new CTO reshapes organization
Starbucks is laying off workers in its technology organization as new CTO Anand Varadarajan, who joined from Amazon in January, restructures the team. The cuts come amid a broader turnaround effort under CEO Brian Niccol. Read More

04-21-26 -

Microsofts new Xbox chief makes first major change, cutting Game Pass price, ...
Microsoft is dropping Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, but future Call of Duty games will no longer be available at launch. It's the first significant move by new gaming CEO Asha Sharma. Read More

04-21-26 -

Tech Moves: Microsoft quantum lead joins IonQ; Heptio co-founder now CTO at S...
Longtime Microsoft exec and former quantum lead Jeff Henshaw takes a role at IonQ while Heptio co-founder Joe Beda joins Stacklok. Read More

04-20-26 -

Former advisor to Steve Jobs says new Apple CEO is exactly whats needed: an e...
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, handing the reins to hardware engineering chief John Ternus. A Seattle tech vet and former advisor to Steve Jobs says the choice signals a return to the company's product roots at a critical moment. Read More

04-20-26 -

PowerLights laser power beaming system keeps a drone in the air for hours dur...
Wireless technology could keep military drones flying indefinitely, or be adapted as a directed-energy defense system for countering drones. Read More

04-20-26 -

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $25B investment, mirroring its OpenAI c...
Two months after investing $50 billion in OpenAI and striking a $100 billion cloud deal, Amazon announced a similar arrangement with its original AI partner, Anthropic: up to $25 billion in new investment and a $100 billion-plus commitment to AWS ...

04-20-26 -

Opinion: You cant blame data centers in Seattle for our skyrocketing electric...
Seattle's mayor is exploring a moratorium on new data centers, but the city's real utility challenges — skyrocketing electricity prices, a looming capacity gap, and an eastside water defection — have nothing to do with data centers. Read More

04-20-26 -

Seattle-area billboard takes a page from Bay Area playbook: Startup energy sh...
Tech company billboards are a big part of the landscape in Silicon Valley. Summation CEO Ian Wong said the Seattle/Bellevue area "has world-class technical talent, but the scene here has always been understated." Read More

04-19-26 -

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 12, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 12, 2026. Read More

04-19-26 -

Opinion: Whither Microsoft? A view from the neighborhood
A Sammamish, Wash.-based operations consultant who counts Microsoft employees as neighbors offers an outsider's diagnosis of the tech giant's cultural challenges — from internal politics dominating weekend conversations to H-1B anxiety chilling ...

04-19-26 -

In a first, Blue Origin uses a recycled rocket to send a satellite into orbit...
After liftoff, New Glenn booster makes yet another successful touchdown at sea — taking Blue Origin's competition with SpaceX to new heights. Read More

04-18-26 -

Physicists share the glory and the wealth after winning $3M for exploring muo...
Breakthrough Prize goes to University of Washington professor — and hundreds of other researchers — for decades of work on Muon g-2 experiments. Read More

04-18-26 -

Seattle mayor floats moratorium on new data centers in city limits
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson raised the possibility of a moratorium on new data centers in the city, following a report that four companies have approached Seattle City Light about building five large-scale facilities. Read More

04-18-26 -

The tough new realities for startups, Amazons next big strategic bets, and Al...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A week of Seattle-area startup news shows how the AI era is reshaping the regional tech scene. Plus: Amazon makes bold bets again, Allbirds pivots to AI infrastructure, and a special trivia challenge looking back...

04-17-26 -

Amazon payments to Bezos Blue Origin reach $1.8B as shareholders cite conflic...
Amazon paid about $1.8 billion last year to Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by its founder and board chair Jeff Bezos — nearly triple the amount the year before — as shareholders weigh a proposal citing his business interests outside ...

04-17-26 -

The $100-a-month workforce: How an entrepreneur uses AI bots to bootstrap a P...
Meet the Oregon-based startup founder using agentic AI to launch a delivery startup that supports the sale of secondhand goods. Read More

04-17-26 -

The fusion pivot: Helion CEO David Kirtleys journey from starships to sustain...
Before he was trying to bottle the sun in Everett, Wash., David Kirtley was building rockets. Now, he’s adapting those space-based technologies in the race for fusion energy. Read More

04-16-26 -

SeekOuts Anoop Gupta steps down as CEO, hands reins of AI recruiting company ...
Anoop Gupta is stepping down as CEO of SeekOut, the Bellevue-based recruiting startup he co-founded in 2017, handing the reins to enterprise software veteran Sean Thompson. Co-founder Aravind Bala will remain as CTO. Read More

04-16-26 -

GeekWire Awards voting is now closed: Thanks for casting ballots to pick the ...
Now in its 18th year, the GeekWire Awards is the premier event recognizing the top leaders, companies and breakthroughs in Pacific Northwest tech. Read More

04-16-26 -

GeekWire Awards: From AI safety to robotic ultrasounds, meet the Startup of t...
The finalists are: mpathic, ElastixAI, Dropzone AI, Dopl Technologies, and Loopr AI. Read More

04-16-26 -

Microsofts NFL tech goes beyond the tablet: What AI is doing for coaches, pla...
Just as with business workflows, the tools are changing how teams operate on and off the field. One big benefit of AI, Microsoft says, is speed: getting the right information to the right person fast enough to shape the next play call or adjustmen...

04-15-26 -

Snap cuts 95 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs, pushing for...
Snap filed a WARN Act notice showing 95 employees affected across its Bellevue, Seattle, and Vancouver, Wash., offices as part of a restructuring that will cut about 1,000 jobs companywide. Read More

04-15-26 -

Bigger checks, fewer bets: Seattle startup deal count drops to lowest level s...
The Seattle area ranked seventh in the U.S. by venture capital invested but 10th by deal count in the first quarter of 2026, as funding concentrated into fewer, larger rounds, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. Read More