Wind Wall, a wind farm in California’s Tehachapi Mountains, produces renewable energy for Amazon Web Services. (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s carbon footprint jumped 16% last year after several years of little or no increase. The company emitted nearly 80.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide...
MoveUp Washington will be led by Andi Smith, who currently heads Ballmer Group’s Washington state regional office. (Ballmer Group Photo) Ballmer Group, the Bellevue, Wash.-based philanthropy founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is spinning out its Washington state...
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson. (Flickr Photo via Governor’s Office) Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson last week announced an Economic Development Council to “identify practical actions that strengthen Washington’s economy, expand opportunity and help more Washingtonians succeed.” To Ferguson’s...
Anthropic’s booth at AWS re:Invent in 2025. Its new Seattle lease puts it just up the street from Amazon. (GeekWire File Photo) Anthropic is embarking on a major expansion in Seattle, underscoring how artificial intelligence companies are emerging as one of the few bright spots in the region’s...
GeekWire File Photo Microsoft is preparing to cut thousands of jobs next week, continuing to rein in operating costs as the company pours unprecedented sums into AI infrastructure. Business Insider broke the news Tuesday afternoon, saying that the cuts will impact less than 2.5% of the...
An engineering development version of the NASA rovers currently operating on Mars takes a spin at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. (NASA via YouTube) NASA is considering repurposing an engineering development version of the nuclear-powered Mars rovers for a different destination: the...
A tarnished “Road to Space” sign stands near Blue Origin’s damaged launch pad in Florida. (Blue Origin Photo) One month after a New Glenn rocket explosion damaged its Florida launch pad, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has decided to shift its focus to a new concept for future...
Shawn Mrzena, one of several longtime Microsoft employees who spoke with GeekWire about the voluntary retirement program, perched on a table of his own making in his workshop. After nearly 25 years, he’s heading back to the trades. (Photo courtesy of Shawn Mrzena) Shawn Mrzena is trading the AI...
Positive Charge hosts Lisa Stiffler, left, and Laura Scott. (GeekWire Photo) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, All Episodes As AI and surging demand for power collide with a warming planet, most climate and environmental news can feel a...
Stars in the constellation Lupus glitter in an image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The full-resolution version of the image amounts to 1.7 gigapixels. (Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA) The science team behind the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially...
Heather Koponen at her family home on the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska. She was stunned to learn that the well built by her parents in 1966 is contaminated with PFAS. (Photo courtesy of Koponen) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, All...
Jacob Andreou speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch, CC By 2.0) It’s not surprising that Microsoft is looking to turn its Copilot platform into a “Super App,” given that its rivals are doing the same. But Microsoft is going about the...
Gov. Bob Ferguson announcing the new Economic Development Council. (Washington Office of Financial Management Photo) Gov. Bob Ferguson last week recruited top executives from Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile, Boeing and other major employers to help shape Washington state’s economic strategy,...
Adobe says shoppers arriving from AI chatbots were more likely to convert into sales for online retailers during Prime Day. (BigStock Photo) U.S. shoppers spent a record $26.4 billion across all retail sites during Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event, and for the first time, the people most likely...
Stanford recently released the 2026 AI Index, the field’s annual physical. One finding stopped me cold: the country that leads AI development is not the country that leads AI adoption. I’ll come back to that. First, what is this AI Index? The AI Index is the most rigorous data-driven...
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 21, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou at the company’s Seattle headquarters for the GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) F5 turns 30 years old this year, and the Seattle company has reinvented itself repeatedly to get here — starting, improbably, as a group of University of Washington students...
An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA has selected proposals from 37 companies, including several with Seattle-area connections, to further its plans to establish a long-term presence on the moon and enable human...
Clockwise from top left: Emeka Alozie, Jordan Baker, Jen Haller, Shannon Swift, and Matthew Barclay at a World Cup watch party on the GeekWire deck. (GeekWire Photo / Parker DeVore) Seattle’s startup scene has the talent and the capabilities. What it’s short on is a culture of risk-taking and...
A drone over the city of Redmond, Wash., where the police department uses the technology for rapid response. (Redmond PD Photo) If you spend any time on social media, you’ve likely seen plenty of videos of suspected shoplifters — in the Seattle area and beyond — trying to make a getaway with...
Baskar Sridharan. (Trase Photo) Virginia-based AI startup Trase is expanding its presence in the Seattle region, with plans to grow from about 20 employees in the area today to as many as 100 in the coming months. The 56-person company this week publicly launched and raised a $107 million...
François Locoh-Donou, F5’s chairman, president and CEO, at the company’s headquarters this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) F5’s acquisition this week of SurePath AI, a startup that detects artificial intelligence on corporate networks, is part of a broader effort by the Seattle company to...
SnapMatePhoto is a Seattle-based marketplace for finding photographers. (SnapMatePhoto Image) In an age when everyone seems to have their phone out at every imaginable event, Sky Yang still envisions a need for real photographers to capture the moment. Yang is the founder of SnapMatePhoto, a...
Amperity co-founders and co-CEOs Kabir Shahani, left, and Derek Slager. (Amperity photo). Seattle-based customer data startup Amperity conducted layoffs this week, the company confirmed to GeekWire, citing a transformation related to its use of more artificial intelligence. The company did...
Screenshots from PaperTok-generated videos. (PaperTok.com Images) Researchers have a new weapon against the scientifically inaccurate AI slop muddying public understanding of complex topics. A University of Washington team is helping scientists tell their own stories with a free tool that...
Bungie is cutting a significant number of jobs after ending development on its long-running online shooter Destiny 2. (Bungie Image) Editor’s note: This story has been updated with details from the Washington State Employment Security Department. Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based creator of...
Starcloud, which is building solar-powered data centers in orbit, is the biggest mover on the new GeekWire 200 — vaulting 96 spots to No. 75 after becoming the fastest Y Combinator company ever to reach unicorn status. (Starcloud Image) The tech economy in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest has...
(Raiseus.ai Image) Amazon, Microsoft and other leading tech companies are joining a new nonpartisan workforce organization launched Thursday aimed at helping American workers navigate the transition to an AI-driven economy. RAISE US aims to partner with governors, employers, and training...
Lumen Field in Seattle, home of the Seahawks. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Seattle Seahawks are in search of a buyer — but first they’ve locked up the organization’s first-ever global partner, signing a multi-year partnership with Accenture this week. The deal pairs one of the...
A screenshot from the digital Magic: The Gathering Arena (Wizards of the Coast) The developers for a video game based on Magic: The Gathering announced on Tuesday that they’ve successfully unionized, following a petition filed with the US National Labor Relations Board. United Wizards of the...
Glenn Kelman in 2021, during his tenure as Redfin CEO. (Redfin Photo) Real estate industry icon Glenn Kelman has found his next home — professionally, anyway. The longtime Redfin CEO, who stepped down in January, six months after Rocket Companies acquired the Seattle brokerage for $1.75...
Bill Gates speaks in Seattle in early 2020. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The U.S. House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released the transcript of a closed-door interview in which Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates answered lawmakers’ questions about his ties to the late convicted sex...
Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio. (Syndio Photo) For the first time in its nine-year history, Syndio has made an acquisition. The Seattle-based pay equity startup announced Tuesday that it acquired Embrace.ai, an agentic AI startup whose founders and technology will help Syndio build out its...
General Fusion’s Lawson Machine 26, its fusion demo device. (General Fusion Photo) British Columbia-based General Fusion announced Wednesday a partnership with energy infrastructure company Renexia to begin planning the deployment of a commercial version of its clean energy technology in...
Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot Digit carries a tote. (Agility Robotics Photo) Salem, Ore.-based Agility Robotics, whose two-legged Digit robots have been tested inside Amazon warehouses, is set to become the first publicly traded U.S. company dedicated solely to humanoid robots, beating its...