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09-24-26 -
With NASAs backing, Starfish Space is getting ready for the orbital debut of ...
All systems go for Starfish\'s Otter space vehicle, which is designed to inspect inoperable satellites up close for NASA\'s SSPICY mission. Read More
09-23-26 -
Alaska Air sustainability director lays out strategy for low-carbon flying at...
Speaking at Climate Week NYC, Alaska Air Group sustainability chief Ryan Spies outlined how thin margins and complex physics are driving the carrier\'s strategic bets on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). To cut emissions, Alaska Air is co-fund...
09-23-26 -
Hubble Network raises $200M to reach $1.6B valuation as startup expands satel...
The fresh capital propels the Seattle startup into unicorn territory as it works to connect billions of everyday, off-the-shelf devices directly to space. Read More
09-23-26 -
Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropics ...
Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from Anthropic\'s Claude or Amazon\'s own Quick assistant. Read More
09-23-26 -
Former Amazon and Opendoor leaders raise $3M to give every key business metri...
Augmeta assigns an AI agent to each of a company’s key business metrics, watching the numbers around the clock and investigating when they move. The startup, whose anchor customer is Tractor Supply, raised $3 million in a seed round led by Depth...
09-22-26 -
Expedia Group laying off 58 employees in Washington state in latest cuts at t...
Impacted positions span across technology, product, and corporate roles — including data scientists, software engineers, finance managers, and senior leadership. Read More
09-22-26 -
Facing seismic shifts in tech sector, Seattle mayor freezes JumpStart tax rat...
Mayor Katie Wilson\'s proposed budget closes a $175 million deficit through spending cuts and leaves the JumpStart payroll tax untouched, offering big tech employers a period of tax stability. Read More
09-22-26 -
Amazons fight with Meta: Who owns the customer relationship when an agent doe...
Amazon\'s decision to block Meta\'s Muse AI agent from shopping on its site raises questions about whether the big platforms will agree on rules for agents, how money will change hands, and whether shoppers want agents in the first place...
09-22-26 -
Solo founder uses AI as backing band to build a music licensing platform for ...
To build Music for Business Finer — which allows shop owners to compare legal streaming options and calculate compliance requirements — John Boyle relied on a combination of AI models including Gemini, Claude, and autonomous bots. Read More
09-22-26 -
Microsoft cuts hundreds more jobs, shifts next Halo game to Activision in Xbo...
The cuts total about 600 globally, including about 300 in Washington state, and 268 worldwide in Xbox Game Studios. The restructuring folds some existing studios under Activision, Bethesda and King, and leaves Ninja Theory, the studio behind the H...
09-21-26 -
Bungie apologizes to fans, unseals Destiny content vault, tries to convince t...
Bungie, the Bellevue-Wash.-based video game studio behind Destiny and Marathon, began its week with an apology from its new studio head, as it tries to win back its audience after several recent missteps. Read More
09-21-26 -
Former Seattle City Council president launches AI-powered site to track and r...
Former Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson has launched CivicTide, a website that tracks City Council legislation, publishes policy briefs and opinion pieces, and gives readers tools to contact councilmembers. The site runs on a custom AI-p...
09-21-26 -
Ex-Zillow VPs startup Truelist acquired by Mainstay in $18M expansion of real...
Founded in 2024, Truelist built an AI-powered listing platform to help real estate brokers and agents manage, create, and distribute property listings across fragmented MLS systems. Read More
09-21-26 -
Seattle startups DexCare and Mila Health combine to expand AI patient scheduling
Seattle health-tech startup DexCare has acquired fellow local startup Mila Health, an AI agent developer that automates patient calls and texts for appointment scheduling. The deal, whose terms were undisclosed, integrates Mila\'s rapidly dep...
09-21-26 -
Plug and Play Seattle picks 11 startups for 4th cohort, from space robotics t...
Ten of the participating startups are based in Seattle, joined by Tokyo-based wireless power developer Aeterlink, which is participating in an exploratory international track to support its expansion into the U.S. and Pacific Northwest. Read More
09-21-26 -
Amazon blocks Metas Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping
Amazon blocked Meta\'s new Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, citing security, privacy and transparency concerns, after asking Meta to remove the site from the assistant entirely. It\'s part of a larger industry fight over who wi...
09-20-26 -
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 13, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 13, 2026. Read More
09-19-26 -
AI meets real estate: Zillow engineering SVP Toby Roberts on the future of bu...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Zillow\'s Toby Roberts says AI agents will assist real estate agents rather than replace them, and explains how the company\'s ChatGPT app works. Recorded live in Seattle this week in partnership with m...
09-18-26 -
Tech Moves: Ascend promotes Nate Bek; Microsoft Word Agent Mode architect exi...
Ascend promoted Nate Bek to principal, and the technical lead for \"Agent Mode\" in Microsoft Word left to start his own AI company. Also in this week\'s roundup: new leaders at Technology Access Foundation, Zillow Group, VanillaSof...
09-18-26 -
Twin tech founders who left Seattle for Alaska bet on an AI agent named Walte...
Several years after leaving Seattle’s startup scene to build a “tech outpost” in the Alaskan wilderness, serial entrepreneurs and twin brothers Lee and Lucas Brown, founders of Tune, have set their sights on a new frontier: replacing the tra...
09-18-26 -
From elections to board games: Washingtons secretary of state does double dut...
Secretary of State Steve Hobbs runs trade missions that put Washington tabletop game makers in front of publishers in Japan and Germany. The rest of his time at PAX went to voter outreach. Read More
09-18-26 -
Space hardware startup plans $125M stock offering and Nasdaq listing through ...
Unorthodox strategy aims to put Seattle-area space startup in the fast lane for going public — and boost the development of orbital carriers. Read More
09-18-26 -
Fewer lab animals, better drugs: This startup wants to fix how experiments ge...
ModernVivo\'s software reads millions of published animal studies to help drug researchers design their own experiments, work that has traditionally meant weeks of manual literature review. The Seattle company says customers who once spent a ...
09-18-26 -
Inside Temporals journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a ba...
One of the hottest infrastructure companies in AI today traces its roots to work its founders were doing before the cloud was even a thing. Fresh off a big funding round, Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev explain the decades of wor...
09-17-26 -
Seattles KEXP eyes a second physical home in San Franciscos historic Haight-A...
The early-stage plan for the landmark property envisions radio broadcast facilities, a roof venue for live performances and community events, space for group and individual music lessons, and a public \"third space\" intended for year-ro...
09-17-26 -
Startup Ravel raises $8.2M to help solve clothing recyclings spandex problem
Seattle startup Ravel isolates and removes elastane from blended fabrics to turn old clothes into reusable plastic pellets. A new $8.2 million seed round will allow the company to scale up from its local pilot plant to commercial operations and va...
09-17-26 -
Startup Spotlight: Local Crew uses video and AI to cut out in-person home rep...
The newly launched Seattle startup is designed to make it easier to find laborers, assess bids, and hire a professional to perform everything from yard work to house repairs. Read More
09-17-26 -
Portland startup Antfly raises $2M to streamline data infrastructure for AI a...
Antfly is the third Portland-based startup for CEO and co-founder James McDermott, who previously founded the customer data platform Lytics, which was acquired last year. Read More
09-16-26 -
Oracle cuts 359 Washington jobs in latest AI-driven layoffs; Seattle offices ...
The cuts are part of broader nationwide layoffs at the enterprise software giant and heavily impact technical engineering and management roles. Read More
09-16-26 -
How UWs solar vehicle team harnessed the sun and hard work to shine on the na...
Over seven days in July and 1,778 miles from Minnesota to Texas, UW outpaced nearly every competitor to finish fourth overall and cross the line as the top-ranking American team in the American Solar Challenge. Read More
09-16-26 -
UW, Microsoft and E8 back climate tech incubator targeting data centers as AI...
The University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs is partnering with Microsoft and E8 to launch a four-month incubator tackling the growing environmental impact of AI data centers. The program will support early-stage startups developing solutions fo...
09-16-26 -
From school nuggets to insect kibble: How the next generation of faux meats a...
As startups and researchers advance alternative proteins for both people and pets, the sector is working to overcome hurdles like high costs, consumer skepticism and concerns over processing. By leveraging continuous manufacturing and sustainable ...
09-16-26 -
Interlune raises $5M for initiatives that go beyond mining the moon
SAFE offering provides cash for lunar infrastructure development in advance of Seattle-based space startup\'s next priced investment round. Read More
09-15-26 -
Helion funding round grows to $500M amid uncertainty over fusion startups Mic...
Helion Energy on Tuesday said that it added $35 million to a funding round initially announced in June. The Everett,… Read More
09-15-26 -
Terry Myerson retires as Truveta CEO, with co-founders stepping in to lead $1...
Truveta co-founders Jay Nanduri and Ryan Ahern will serve as interim co-CEOs of the health data company, which Myerson helped build from a pandemic-era idea into a business with 500 employees and 30 member health systems. Read More
09-15-26 -
Uncommon Thinkers 2026: Last call for nominations for Seattles boldest innova...
Nominations for GeekWire’s 2026 Uncommon Thinkers Awards close Friday. Nominate a Seattle-area innovator who is challenging convention, pushing boundaries and shaping what’s next. Read More
09-15-26 -
Sen. Maria Cantwell warns of autonomous AI swarms as she calls for federal gu...
Highlighting recent security breaches and industry alarms, Washington state\'s senior senator says Congress has \"lost three years\" on independent safety testing for frontier AI models. Read More
09-15-26 -
Goldman Sachs plants flag in Bellevue, opening hub for more than 125 AI and c...
Goldman Sachs is expanding its Seattle-area technology footprint with a new Bellevue engineering hub that will house more than 125 employees focused on AI and cloud transformation. Read More
09-15-26 -
Seattles Nuance Labs raises $50M to give AI models human expression and nuance
Founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, the research lab is developing a single \"full-duplex\" foundation model designed to process and generate conversational cues simultaneous...
09-15-26 -
Providence to receive $1.1B from Nike co-founder to build womens health hospi...
Providence will receive $1.1 billion from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny — one of the largest gifts ever pledged to a U.S. health care institution — to build Oregon\'s first women\'s hospital and expand cardiovascula...
09-15-26 -
Americas machinists are retiring, and two startup founders in their 20s want ...
Neuramill is building software that captures how experienced machinists decide to make a part, then applies that knowledge to new jobs at aerospace and defense machine shops. The company was founded last year by two engineers in their 20s who star...
09-15-26 -
Agilitys new Digit 5 robot lifts 50 pounds, works 20+ hours a day and operate...
Agility Robotics, which is preparing to go public through a SPAC merger, unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid robot it says can work safely alongside people in warehouses and factories. The company says the new robot can lift 50 pounds, reach shelves 7.2 ...
09-15-26 -
BuyWander raises $21M as retail returns startup expands nationwide from new S...
BuyWander\'s expansion is backed by rapid operational momentum, hitting 400% year-over-year growth. The platform now counts 50,000 active and winning customers who have saved a cumulative $200 million Read More
09-15-26 -
Gates Foundation bets $1B on AI to boost global health, agriculture and educa...
The Gates Foundation is committing at least $1 billion over the next two years to AI tools for health workers, farmers and teachers. CEO Mark Suzman told GeekWire he expects the figure to grow, but said AI efficiencies cannot make up for the billi...
09-14-26 -
The warning signs are flashing: New regional partnership calls for cohesive S...
Regional leaders from four counties launched the Partnership for a Competitive Puget Sound, a 20-point plan responding to the loss of nearly 7,000 jobs last year. The group\'s report says the Seattle area\'s technology industry has no co...
09-14-26 -
Monday-morning surprise: Valve Software suddenly launches its wireless VR hea...
Initially revealed in Nov. 2025 as part of the same initiative that brought us the new Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is a new entry into the VR hardware space. Read More
09-14-26 -
Temporal raises $550M, hits $12.55B valuation as agentic AI wave fuels massiv...
It caps a significant growth stretch for the Bellevue-based open-source platform, whose annualized revenue run rate recently surpassed $250 million — growing over 200% year-over-year. Read More
09-14-26 -
This software engineer is taking Google to the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify ...
Software engineer Jeff Kohler is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify the Alice patent standard after courts invalidated his patent and dismissed his infringement case against Google without examining the C++ source code he submitted. IP law e...
09-14-26 -
Tech Moves: Microsoft, Amazon and Kestra promotions; Gradial names CMO; Yoodl...
Silvia Candiani was promoted to CVP of the recently launched Microsoft Frontier Company, while Microsoft Elevate hires a VP. Amazon Web Services promotes a director of global sustainability. Gradial adds a CMO, Yoodli and Kestra name VPs, and oth...
09-14-26 -
Microsoft floats rules for AI models as industry weighs slowdown
Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its in-house AI models, barring them from resisting shutdown or hiding their reasoning — as Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk call for slowing AI development. Read More

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