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05-22-26 -
Tech Moves: Xbox names CTO; Smartsheet gets first AI chief; Amazon VP departs...
Microsoft promoted Scott Van Vliet to Xbox CTO, while Smartsheet elevated Drew Gardner to the news created role of chief AI officer. Amazon saw some departures and arrivals, including a VP's exit for DoorDash. Read More
05-22-26 -
Bellevue teens targeting salmon die-offs and mental health win big at interna...
Lakshmi Agrawal, a senior at Interlake High School, and Anusha Arora, a sophomore who also attends Interlake, were among more than 1,700 students from roughly 60 countries who competed at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in...
05-22-26 -
The view from Bellevue: Seattle has the foundation for future growth if it c...
At a Bellevue Chamber panel, regional business leaders warned that Seattle’s aggressive tax policies threaten to undermine its world-class economic foundation. Read More
05-22-26 -
A final season at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave aft...
Yusuf Mehdi, one of Microsoft’s best-known and longest-serving business leaders, whose tenure has spanned 35 years from Windows 3.1 to… Read More
05-21-26 -
Why this Seattle-area startup is putting its name on the front of an English ...
Temporal, the Bellevue workflow orchestration company valued at $5 billion, announced Thursday that it is becoming the front-of-shirt sponsor of Crystal Palace Football Club beginning with the 2026/27 season. Read More
05-21-26 -
CEO of Paul Allens $3.1B science and tech fund steps down less than a year af...
Dr. Lynda Stuart is departing as the first CEO of the Fund for Science and Technology, the foundation created under late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's instructions. The change comes amid broader shifts in the Allen philanthropic ecosystem, inc...
05-21-26 -
SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other ti...
SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 filing that its Redmond, Wash., facility produces approximately 70 Starlink satellites per week, putting hard production numbers on the operation for the first time. The filing also reveals Starlink's financials and nam...
05-21-26 -
UWs Ed Lazowska adds Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award to his long list of ...
The University of Washington professor emeritus is a longtime computer science educator, researcher and fixture in Seattle's tech community. Read More
05-21-26 -
Opinion: Washington states tax debate is missing half the equation
Washington's tax debate fixates on regressivity rankings, but overlooks how taxes shape economic behavior â€” and whether progressive-looking systems actually produce better outcomes for working families. Read More
05-21-26 -
EV startup Electric Era launches battery systems to tackle data center energy...
Seattle EV startup Electric Era is launching the CoPower Platform to bypass utility delays and provide rapid battery storage for power-hungry data centers. Read More
05-21-26 -
Meet the company that won the Microsoft-donated World Cup suite with a $100k ...
UiPath, the AI automation giant expanding in Bellevue, submitted the winning $100k bid for a premium World Cup suite experience donated by Microsoft, raising money for Seattle Children's Hospital through an auction organized by GeekWire. Read More
05-21-26 -
AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains...
Brian Evergreen, a former Microsoft AI leader and author of Autonomous Transformation, argues that most companies are approaching AI backward â€” starting with the technology instead of a vision for what they want to create. In a live GeekWir...
05-20-26 -
Data center resistance comes home to Seattle as council considers a one-year ...
As Amazon and Microsoft pour billions into AI, Seattle residents push back against new data centers over worries about rising energy costs and environmental impacts. Read More
05-20-26 -
One of a kind: Tributes pour in for S. Soma Somasegar, beloved tech mentor an...
A consistent picture emerged: Somasegar was kind, generous with his time, humble, and a steadying presence. To many, those qualities mattered even more than the investments and decisions he made. Read More
05-20-26 -
Former Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a new gig startup CEO
The company was started by apparel industry veterans Raj Shah and Akhil Shah, raising $540,000 with a 2016 Kickstarter campaign. Harrell will succeed Raj Shah, who will continue as chairman of the board. Read More
05-20-26 -
At Tech Alliance annual luncheon, a stark analysis and a call to action
A McKinsey analysis presented at the Technology Alliance's State of Technology luncheon warns that Washington's nation-leading economic growth is projected to slow to the national average, driven by negative domestic migration, rising costs, and h...
05-20-26 -
Seattle, weve got an image problem
GeekWire co-founder John Cook argues that Seattle's increasingly anti-business national image threatens the city's standing as an innovation hub, exactly 30 years after Newsweek celebrated it as one of America's great boomtowns. Read More
05-20-26 -
Starfish Space shifts its sights to Australian satellite for orbital docking ...
Seattle-area startup maneuvers its Otter Pup 2 spacecraft into position almost a year after its launch. Read More
05-20-26 -
Lab of UW Nobel winner cracks challenge of creating roomier protein cages to ...
Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design have engineered larger, virus-like protein cages to one day deliver larger genetic payloads. Read More
05-20-26 -
Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: Nothing ...
In a CNBC interview, Jeff Bezos offered the most detailed public description yet of Project Prometheus, calling the secretive startup an "artificial general engineer" building next-generation design tools for physical objects. Read More
05-20-26 -
Amazon Leos leaders provide an inside look at the satellite broadband network...
Find out how Jeff Bezos got the ball rolling in the competition with SpaceX's Starlink for space-based connectivity â€” and how Project Kuiper became Amazon Leo. Read More
05-20-26 -
S. Soma Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of ...
Friends and colleagues remembered S. "Soma" Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft developer leader and Madrona managing director, as a generous mentor to developers and founders, and a fixture of Seattle's tech community. Read More
05-19-26 -
Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech...
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin, founder Rich Barton, chairman Barry Diller, and former CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tell the story of Expedia's 30-year evolution from a small project inside Microsoft to a global travel conglomerate navigating the age of ...
05-19-26 -
Mistakes new startup founders should avoid according to those who made them
This past Christmas, Chet Kittleson was in the back of a minivan watching his startup die in real time. His… Read More
05-19-26 -
Student rocketry team soars in U.S. competition despite losing their motor in...
Washington Youth Aerospace, a team made up of six ninth graders from Bellevue's Interlake High School, finished second in the annual competition. The finals featured 100 teams from a record pool of 1,107 teams that competed in the overall challeng...
05-19-26 -
TerraByte raises the curtain on its campaign to use AI to unleash the power o...
Microsoft veterans raise pre-seed funding for an AI platform that sifts through streams of satellite data in search of valuable insights. Read More
05-19-26 -
StitcherAI emerges from stealth with $3M and a different take on the AI spend...
StitcherAI, founded by a pair of Seattle enterprise tech veterans, launched Tuesday with $3 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that pushes cost data into the tools where spending decisions are made, rather than relying on traditional dashb...
05-18-26 -
Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defenda...
A jury ruled unanimously Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, finding the defendants not liable on all claims after less than two hours of deliberation. Read More
05-18-26 -
Starbucks layoffs impact 252 jobs at Seattle support center, including VPs an...
A Washington Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification said that the cuts "will result in the relocation or contracting out of certain of the employerâ€™s operations or the partnersâ€™ positions." Read More
05-18-26 -
Gates Foundation Trust ends an era, selling off all remaining Microsoft stock
The Gates Foundation Trust has sold its remaining 7.7 million shares of Microsoft, marking the end of an era for the Seattle-based philanthropy as it ramps up global grantmaking. Read More
05-18-26 -
AWS veteran Matt Wood returns to cloud giant in new role: chief AI and techno...
Matt Wood, who spent more than 14 years helping to lead Amazon Web Services’ artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives… Read More
05-18-26 -
Opinion: Dont let the OpenAI soap opera hide the precedent
Computer scientist and AI industry veteran Oren Etzioni argues that OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion sets a dangerous precedent for American charity law, and that the real reckoning will have to come from Washington, not the Oakland cou...
05-17-26 -
UN digital envoy warns AI influence is concentrated in a few zip codes, calls...
The UN's top digital envoy outlined a multi-stakeholder approach to AI governance at Seattle University, warning that computing power and wealth are concentrated in a handful of areas while most of the world lacks the capacity to participate. Read...
05-17-26 -
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 10, 2026
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of May 10, 2026. Read More
05-16-26 -
What we learned about Microsoft in the OpenAI trial, and is Seattle squanderi...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: As the Musk v. OpenAI trial heads to the jury, we dig into what… Read More
05-15-26 -
Lean Startup author reveals one regret about his bestselling book and how hi...
"Lean Startup" author Eric Ries previewed his new book "Incorruptible" at Seattle Flow Startup Day, challenging founders to rethink how they define profit and structure their companies. Read More
05-15-26 -
Tech Moves: Microsoft names first chief design officer; execs resign from T-M...
Microsoft veteran Jon Friedman was named the tech giant's first chief design officer; Susan Loosmore resigns as T-Mobile EVP; and OfferUp's chief growth officer departs. Read More
05-15-26 -
A whiff of social media supremacy: Seahawks schedule release is a spritz in t...
The release of 2026 NFL team schedules on Thursday night marked the return of the "social media Super Bowl" â€” and the actual Super Bowl champs were might in the mix. Read More
05-15-26 -
Starbucks announces new round of corporate layoffs following cuts in Seattle ...
Starbucks is laying off hundreds of additional corporate employees and closing several regional offices after earlier this week providing details on the elimination of 61 tech roles in Seattle. Read More
05-15-26 -
Seven years after her death, sci-fi pioneers last novel bridges Minoan and Pa...
Clarion West celebrates posthumous publication of 'The Curve of the World,' a different kind of Odyssey by Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre. Read More
05-15-26 -
Microsoft adds more former Ai2 researchers, bolstering its Superintelligence ...
At least 10 former Allen Institute for AI staffers and researchers have joined Microsoft's Superintelligence team, including the core of the institute's OLMo open-source model effort. The departures come amid a shift in Ai2's funding toward applie...
05-15-26 -
Forget smart glasses: UW researchers put tiny cameras into earbuds for hands-...
Wireless earbuds seemingly sprang out of nowhere. Popularized by Apple’s AirPods, they were suddenly everywhere â€” on the subway, in… Read More
05-14-26 -
Are we on a Road to Nowhere? Seattles growth masks deeper anxieties about its...
For three decades, Seattleâ€™s tech industry has been an extraordinary economic engine, transforming the region into a global center for cloud computing, e-commerce and artificial intelligence. But are cracks beginning to form in that foundat...
05-14-26 -
Can AI replicate an army of associates? These lawyers are betting their new f...
Talairis Law Group is built around the idea that AI can handle much of the work that associates at big law firms have traditionally done â€” and that startups shouldn't have to pay big law prices for it. Read More
05-14-26 -
Amazon Leo aims to double its pace as it gets set to roll out its satellite b...
One year after the start of its launch campaign, Amazon Leo is a 'couple of months' away from kicking off commercial service, VP says. Read More
05-14-26 -
Microsofts multi-agent AI system tops Anthropics Mythos on cybersecurity benc...
Microsoft's new vulnerability-scanning system, codenamed MDASH, scored 88.45% on the CyberGym benchmark, surpassing single-model systems from Anthropic and OpenAI by using more than 100 specialized AI agents across multiple models. Read More
05-13-26 -
Cowboy Space raises $275M as it seeks 40-60 employees for new satellite and r...
Of its 41 open positions, 18 are based in Seattle, spanning roles in avionics, mechanical engineering, spacecraft design, and software. Read More
05-13-26 -
Microsofts CTO testifies about email at the heart of Elon Musks allegations a...
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott publicly addressed for the first time a 2018 email that Musk's lawyers have cited as evidence Microsoft knew OpenAI was abandoning its nonprofit mission. A confidential board memo filed in the case reveals how Microsoft's...
05-13-26 -
Opinion: Vibe coding needs an on-ramp and seat belts
What vibe coding needs is its Windows moment â€” the point at which a powerful but arcane technology gets a user interface so good that the machinery underneath disappears. Read More
05-13-26 -
Jeff Bezos Blue Origin space venture reportedly considers seeking outside inv...
The Financial Times quotes sources as saying external fundraising might be needed to support increased launch cadence. Read More

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