03-26-26 -

GeekWire rides the worlds first floating-bridge train Seattle tech commutes ...
A preview of the Crosslake Connection, the region's newest mass transit milestone, featured a trip between South Bellevue and new stations at Mercer Island and Judkins Park. The public will get to ride between Seattle and its Eastside neighbors st...

03-26-26 -

Washington state needs a coherent story to compete in AI, leaders agree
Washington state may have everything it needs to become a global AI hub. The problem is, it hasn't figured out how to tell the world. At a roundtable convened by the Washington Technology Industry Association, civic and industry leaders debated wh...

03-26-26 -

Bungie scores an unexpected success with Marathon revival
After a CEO's departure, layoffs, an indefinite delay, and the failure of a similar Sony title, Bungie's online shooter looked like it was headed for disaster. Instead, it's become one of this year's unexpected gaming successes. Read More

03-26-26 -

Want to watch the Seattle Mariners? Here are the TV and streaming options as ...
The Mariners enabled a "channel finder" on their website that lets fans search by zip code to find available providers and channel information in their area. Read More

03-26-26 -

Forget new power plants Seattle startup Edo wants to turn your office buildi...
Edo spent five years building tech to turn commercial buildings into virtual power plants, and with the grid buckling under data center demand and extreme weather, utilities and building operators are taking notice. Read More

03-25-26 -

Everyone is a builder: Microsoft and OpenAI execs on the new era of AI-powere...
Software in the age of AI agents is becoming something anyone can create on the fly — which could have major implications in the way "applications" are designed, built, and used. Read More

03-25-26 -

Startups pitch big AI ideas during mini-competition at GeekWires Agents of Tr...
Ideas from Pay-i, Cascade, Autessa and GemaTEG were pitched to the crowd and a panel of judges, with Pay-i founder David Tepper emerging as winner and most impressive under pressure. Read More

03-25-26 -

GeekWire Awards: Breakthrough tech for healthcare and data centers highlight ...
The finalists for Innovation of the Year are Alpenglow Biosciences; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; RevealDx; Starcloud; and VerAvanti. Read More

03-25-26 -

Amazon and FedEx, together again, this time for e-commerce returns
More than 1,500 FedEx Office locations are now accepting box-free Amazon returns, expanding a partnership rekindled last year after a six-year split. Read More

03-25-26 -

Beyond the chatbot: At GeekWire summit, AI leaders say the era of autonomous ...
The debate over whether AI will transform industries is over. At GeekWire's Agents of Transformation summit in Seattle, founders, executives and others had moved on to harder questions — what's working, what isn't, and how fast everything is mov...

03-25-26 -

Aetheon raises $1.2M to translate lived experiences into job-ready skills
The startup. os building what it calls a "skills operating system" aimed at helping workers translate their real-world experience into language employers can use. Read More

03-24-26 -

Job candidates are starting to negotiate AI token budgets, changing the dynam...
Lamanna's comments at GeekWire's Agents of Transformation event reflect how access to AI models is becoming as fundamental as salary in compensation negotiations. Read More

03-24-26 -

Epic Games layoffs impact 82 workers at Seattle-area office as part of broade...
Epic is laying off 1,000 employees across the company, or about 20% of its workforce, citing reduced engagement with "Fortnite." Read More

03-24-26 -

Brinc unveils Guardian, a Starlink-connected drone that could replace the pol...
Guardian is the world’s first Starlink-connected drone. It pairs with a robotic charging nest that automatically swaps batteries and helps the drone quickly redeploy. Read More

03-24-26 -

Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startu...
Brinc is taking over 35,000 square feet at West Canal Yards, in a former fish cannery along the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Queen Anne. Read More

03-24-26 -

Tech Moves: More changes at Xbox; Remitly taps new accounting chief; Atlassia...
Another Xbox leader departs; Remitly names a new accounting leader; and more key personnel changes. Read More

03-24-26 -

Big ideas, early traction: AI founders pitch VCs at Seattle-area startup show...
Ten founders pitched VCs at B.E.L.L.E.'s Seattle AI Startup Showcase, covering everything from property management and housing development to fraud prevention and R&D compliance. Read More

03-24-26 -

The guardian angel of groceries: Katherine Sizovs tech-led quest to modernize...
Meet Katherine Sizov, the 22-year-old neuroscientist who ditched the lab, cornered a grocery store employee about peaches, and ended up building a $22M startup that's quietly revolutionizing how your food gets from farm to shelf. Read More

03-24-26 -

Ai2 releases open-source web agent to rival closed systems from OpenAI, Googl...
The Allen Institute for AI is releasing MolmoWeb, an open-source web agent that navigates browsers by interpreting screenshots, offering a transparent alternative to closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Read More

03-24-26 -

Microsoft, Lime and others helping to celebrate opening of new light rail lin...
Events will take place at 10 stations across the expanded 2 Line from the International District to Bellevue and Redmond. Read More

03-23-26 -

Microsoft hires former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi and key researchers for Suleymans ...
Microsoft is hiring former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, along with Hanna Hajishirzi and Ranjay Krishna from the Allen Institute for AI to join Mustafa Suleyman's Superintelligence team, GeekWire has learned. Read More

03-23-26 -

GeekWires AI summit is Tuesday: What to know if youre attending our Agents of...
The event in Seattle on Tuesday will explore how agentic AI is redefining work, creativity, and leadership. Read More

03-23-26 -

Opinion: The AI white collar displacement debate doom or delay?
The AI displacement doom loop is overstated and will take longer to arrive than many anticipate. But it is coming, and we are in for major economic and perhaps social upheaval. Read More

03-23-26 -

Report: Helion is working on a massive fusion power deal with OpenAI
The Seattle-area fusion startup Helion Energy is negotiating a deal to supply OpenAI with a staggering 5 gigawatts of power by 2030 — if its technology works. Read More

03-23-26 -

10 startups chosen for Plug and Plays third Seattle-area accelerator cohort
The companies — nine of which are Seattle based — are participating in a 12-week program running through mid-June. Read More

03-22-26 -

Sci-fi epic Project Hail Mary gives Amazon MGM Studios its best opening ever ...
The film starring Ryan Gosling provided the best opening ever for an Amazon MGM Studios film, beating the $58 million brought in by “Creed III” in 2023. Read More

03-22-26 -

AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazons cloud empire, and whats at stake in th...
With Amazon marking the 20th anniversary of AWS this month, GeekWire spoke with early builders, current AWS insiders, and longtime observers of the company to tell the story of how the business got started, how it won the cloud, and what it's up a...

03-22-26 -

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 15, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of March 15, 2026. Read More

03-21-26 -

51,600 more satellites? Blue Origin adds another twist to the data center spa...
Jeff Bezos' space venture seeks FCC's go-ahead for a constellation that would complement TeraWave network — and set up another rivalry with SpaceX. Read More

03-21-26 -

Why Amazons second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds
When news emerged this week that Amazon is working on a new smartphone, the reflexive reaction was obvious: Didn't they already try this? But dismissing the effort as a sequel to the Fire Phone disaster misses the point. Read More

03-21-26 -

Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the ...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after… Read More

03-20-26 -

Report: Amazon is making another phone, this time for the AI era
Amazon is developing a new smartphone codenamed "Transformer," led by the same devices unit behind Alexa, with a focus on AI integration and mobile personalization, Reuters reports. Read More

03-20-26 -

Seattles biotech scene is world-class Life Science Washington is teaching it...
Despite world-class AI-biotech research, a Nobel Prize-winning protein design lab and proximity to global AI expertise, Washington's life sciences sector is still learning to tell its story. Read More

03-20-26 -

Tech Moves: Carbon Robotics new CFO; Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix; Nor...
Carbon Robotics names a CFO; Nordstrom gets a VP of AI; and a Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix while one of its longtime legal leaders retires. Read More

03-20-26 -

Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the whe...
Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores and an early champion of the deals-on-wheels concept, once worried that Marshawn Lynch was going to crash the party just as it got rolling. Read More

03-19-26 -

Sidewalk scooter riders, beware: AI-powered Lime Vision will soon call you out
"Lime Vision" uses a camera mounted to the front of an electric scooter and a trained AI model to detect where a rider is riding. The goal is to improve rider and pedestrian safety. The technology will make its national debut in Seattle ...

03-19-26 -

Bluesky discloses $100M Series B round raised last year
The round closed in April 2025, the company wrote in a blog post. Bluesky previously raised a $15 million Series A round in October 2024. Read More

03-19-26 -

GeekWire Awards: Billion-dollar deals, rare IPO, pharma pact, and mega-round ...
Billion-dollar deals from OpenAI, Novo Nordisk, and Palo Alto Networks are among the finalists for the Deal of the Year in the 2026 GeekWire Awards, alongside a rare Seattle-area IPO and a $5 billion mega-round. Read More

03-19-26 -

City of Seattle awards $455k in Technology Matching Fund grants to support di...
The winners are expected to serve 20 different language groups by providing digital literacy training, devices, technical support, digital navigator services, and internet connectivity.  Read More

03-19-26 -

The rise of vertical AI agents and the startups racing to build them
For this installment in our Agents of Transformation series, GeekWire examined the rising trend of vertical AI agents — tools built to do one job exceptionally well by combining models with domain-specific data, workflows, and context. Read More

03-19-26 -

From computer to lab to market: Nobel winner David Baker lands $7M for new pr...
The Washington Research Foundation is investing $7 million in Nobel laureate David Baker's UW lab to turn AI-designed proteins into real-world tools. Read More

03-19-26 -

Got space junk? Portal and Paladin team up to create an orbital trash disposa...
Partnership will pair Portal's maneuverable spacecraft with Paladin's space debris collector for missions starting as early as 2027. Read More

03-19-26 -

Portland cybersecurity startup Eclypsium raises $25M to secure AI infrastructure
Founded in 2017 by former security engineers at Intel, Eclypsium serves private and public sector customers. It scans the hardware and firmware of laptops, servers, network devices, and AI infrastructure for vulnerabilities that sit below the oper...

03-19-26 -

AI enters the chat: New Seattle dating app relies on tech to facilitate meani...
Ada Jin is the founder of Lamu, a Seattle-based digital matchmaking service that relies on artificial intelligence to learn about users and help facilitate conversations and meaningful dates between matches. Read More

03-18-26 -

Compass drops lawsuit against Zillow over home-listing policy
The two industry titans have battled in court for months over Zillow's Listing Access Standards, a policy barring listings that are publicly marketed but not widely available via the MLS. Read More

03-18-26 -

Microsoft nixes NDAs with local governments worldwide when deploying data cen...
Amid widespread blowback against the spread of data centers, Microsoft on Wednesday announced it is abandoning its practice of secrecy… Read More

03-18-26 -

Backed by Nvidia, Seattles Phaidra targets data center overheating with proac...
Phaidra, a startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, this week announced key collaborations with Nvidia, CoreWeave and Applied Digital. Read More

03-18-26 -

Seattle area ranks No. 3 among U.S. metros in new study measuring AI growth a...
The new report from CoworkingCafe puts Seattle behind San Jose, Calif., (Silicon Valley) and New York City. San Francisco and Dallas round out the top five. Read More

03-18-26 -

GeekWire 200 update: A new No. 1 and plenty of newcomers join list of top Pac...
There's a new No. 1 atop the GeekWire 200, along with several newcomers and other fast-growing startups moving up the list. Read More

03-18-26 -

From Sydney to South Lake Union: VR startup Vantari brings its flight simulat...
Vantari has officially moved its headquarters to Seattle as it ramps up work with health systems and device makers across North America. Read More