Dairy cows at the Puyallup Fair, now called the Washington State Fair. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies — a Washington company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage — announced it’s being acquired by Ara Partners. The...
The 2026 GeekWire Awards AI Innovation of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Avante CEO Rohan D’Souza; ConverzAI CEO Ashwarya Poddar; Envive AI CEO Aniket Deosthali; Synthesize Bio co-founders Jeff Leek (left) and Robert Bradley; and Spangle AI co-founders Maju Kuruvilla (left) and Fei...
Steve Gustavson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for design and research. (Microsoft Photo) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents. See coverage of our related event.] Using...
(Licensed via marketoonist.com) This is a follow-up to my recent piece “AI Coach or AI Ghostwriter? The Choice Is Yours,” which argued that AI can either sharpen your thinking or replace it. That piece was about writing. This one is about the other side of the coin: reading. The practical...
An artist’s conception shows Portal’s Starburst spacecraft in the foreground with its Supernova space vehicle and three more Starbursts (plus Earth) in the background. (Portal Space Systems Illustration) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems has raised $50 million in a funding round aimed at...
“It’s hard to overstate my optimism for what’s ahead,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy writes in his new shareholder letter. (GeekWire File Photo) Andy Jassy’s new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant’s biggest bets — from AI and custom chips to satellite internet and...
Inflection.io CEO Aaron Bird, left, and new CMO Adam Schoenfeld at the company’s office in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. (Inflection.io Photo) Two Seattle startups with intertwined histories are joining forces. Inflection.io, a B2B marketing automation company, announced Wednesday that it has...
Julia Liuson presenting at a conference in 2019. (Microsoft Photo) Big tech moves today from Microsoft: Longtime executive Julia Liuson is retiring, Neil Barnett is the company’s new chief accessibility officer, and Nanda Ramachandran has been named chief marketing officer for Windows &...
An early prototype of Avalanche Energy’s radiovoltaic converter for the DARPA Rads to Watts program is exposed to high-energy ion-beam irradiation. (Avalanche Photo) Seattle fusion startup Avalanche Energy was awarded a share of a $5.2 million contract announced Wednesday from the U.S....
The old Foss Shipyard on Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal, where defense giant Anduril Industries is building a new class of autonomous warships. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) There was no noticeable activity at the old Foss Shipyard in Seattle when I visited last week. No signs, and no...
Humanly’s job seeker-facing product offers AI-powered coaching on interview preparation, resume writing, salary negotiation and more. (Humanly Image) The market for recruiting software — tools that help companies find and screen candidates — is worth $14 billion. The market for actually placing...
(BigStock Illustration) Alonda Williams is the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound. Last year, a peer CEO told me she’d been using AI for eight months and still couldn’t explain to her board how she benefitted beyond saving time writing. She wasn’t an outlier. Surveys suggest that...
Bryson DeChambeau swings while the Sportsbox AI app captures his motion on a smartphone. (Sportsbox AI Photo) First Bryson DeChambeau used Sportsbox AI to win a major. Then he invested in the Bellevue, Wash.-based startup. Now he’s taking a swing at the entire company. DeChambeau, the...
Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated developers and data scientists for nearly two decades. The new capability, called Amazon S3...
A crescent Earth sinks behind the moon’s disk in a wide-angle version of the Artemis 2 crew’s “Earthset” picture. (NASA Photo) A day after the Artemis 2 mission’s historic lunar flyby, NASA has released a stunning set of high-resolution images documenting Earthset and Earthrise, a solar eclipse...
Niantic Spatial’s Scaniverse app captures physical spaces, reconstructs them as 3D models and enables precise localization within them. (Niantic Spatial Images) Niantic Spatial, the company spun out of Pokémon GO maker Niantic, is launching a revamped version of its Scaniverse platform for...
Eric Boyd. (LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime Microsoft leader Eric Boyd announced today that he has joined Anthropic to lead its infrastructure team. “I’ve been privileged to have a front row seat to the explosion of LLMs, and the team at Anthropic is truly special,” Boyd said on LinkedIn. “The...
Francois Ajenstat, Golden Analytics founder and CEO. Francois Ajenstat has been in business intelligence long enough to see two generational shifts, from the early days at Cognos to the self-service revolution at Tableau, ultimately serving as chief product officer at the Seattle-based data...
Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A trio of YouTube producers filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon alleging the tech giant illegally used content from the video platform to train and improve its Nova Reel generative AI model. The suit, filed...
The 2026 GeekWire Award CEO of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Tony Huang, Possible Finance; Sheila Stafford, TeamSense; Karen Huh, Zucca; Luis Poggi, HouseWhisper; Aina Abiodun, VertueLab. The finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards are leading startups and...
Rohit Tatachar, CTO and co-founder of Glacis. As a veteran engineer and product leader inside Microsoft Azure, Rohit Tatachar saw that many companies were building AI systems they couldn’t fully monitor or control in production. In his new role at a Seattle startup, he’s doing something about...
An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter satellite servicing vehicle in geostationary Earth orbit. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space says it has raised about $110 million in a funding round that will help the company execute its first satellite...
NASA’s Artemis 2 crew captured an iconic “Earthset” picture, showing Earth dipping beneath the lunar horizon. (NASA Photo) Four astronauts today became the first humans to make a trip around the moon since the Apollo era — and added new pages to history books for the Artemis era. The Artemis...
Browsing in another new Barnes & Noble bookstore, in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A new retail storyline is close to beginning in downtown Seattle with the opening this month of a Barnes & Noble bookstore — six years after the chain closed its longtime downtown...
Robbie Cape is a tech veteran and serial entrepreneur. (File Photo via 98point6) Robbie Cape, the Seattle tech entrepreneur who has dabbled in healthcare and fried chicken in recent years, has another new venture. In a post on LinkedIn on Monday, Cape said his nine-month search for a new job...
Yifan Zhang, AI2 Incubator co-managing director and AI House founder, speaks at the 2026 Seattle AI Startup Summit. (Ken Yeung Photo) The City by the Bay may be considered the center of AI and technology, but that doesn’t mean every founder should flock there to set up shop, right? That’s the...
Nadim Abdo. (Microsoft Photo) — After more than 26 years with Microsoft, Nadim Abdo is now the tech giant’s corporate vice president of Identity & Network Access (IDNA). The team’s services authenticate more than 1 billion users daily, and its Microsoft Entra technology is used by more than 95%...
Ridge AI co-founders Jeffrey Heer and Ellie Fields. (Ridge AI Photo) Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer know data visualization from the inside: Fields spent more than 12 years as a product and marketing leader at Tableau, and Heer is the University of Washington professor whose open-source tools are...
Eric Howard, founder of Dog Tired, rides his One Wheel while running Boone, a golden retriever, near Lake Tapps, Wash. (Photo courtesy of DogTired) It’s tough to tell who has the bigger smile: the guy zipping by on the Onewheel, the dog running alongside him at full sprint, or the passersby...
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A microchip pet door awaits its fate at the FedEx Office on NW 46th Street in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) For a while now, since the closure of the Amazon Fresh Pickup in Seattle, I’ve been complaining about having to drive across the Ballard Bridge to Whole Foods to do my Amazon...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming platform once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down — and Snap is picking up some of the pieces. Todd talks about what it was like fielding calls from distraught users on the night of the announcement. John...
Joy Chik. (LinkedIn Photo) — Joy Chik announced she will retire from Microsoft in July after nearly three decades. Her eight roles there ranged from software design engineer to her current title: president of identity and network access. “I’m excited to expand my public company board work...
A model of the inner solar system shows asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in light teal. Previously known asteroids are dark blue. The model highlights almost 12,700 asteroids that the Rubin team has discovered over the course of a year and a half. (Photo: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin...
Speedy’s fouder Tyler Swartz with the electric van he uses to pick up and drop off e-bikes. (Speedy’s Photo) If you’ve ever tried to lift and fit a big, heavy e-bike into the back of a car, Tyler Swartz feels your pain, and went to work on a solution. Swartz, a Seattle native and cycling...