Top row from left: Emily Rapp, Henry Arias, Cleo Escarez, and Jagan Nemani. Bottom row from left: Kim Vu, Andy Liu, Mary Jesse, and Kenny Daniel, at the Seattle Tech Week kickoff. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) The fourth annual Seattle Tech Week got off to a big start Monday, with panels and...
A UPS truck makes its way through downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Handling fewer packages for Amazon is boosting the financial outlook for UPS, as CEO Carol Tomé said Tuesday that the delivery giant has successfully completed its planned volume pullback and is pivoting...
Amazon’s next pillar could be built on a foundation of silicon. In a new interview with Fortune, Amazon founder and Executive Chair Jeff Bezos says the company’s custom chip business is on track to become one of Amazon’s most durable businesses, placing it alongside Marketplace, Prime, and...
An illustration shows campers using a smartphone to connect with a stylized Amazon Leo satellite network. (Amazon Photoillustration) Amazon Leo has asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve its plan to launch up to 5,105 satellites capable of providing space-based connectivity for...
GeekWire Image / Company Logos A new Warner Bros. Discovery lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the tech giant of poaching a top HBO Max marketing executive 16 months before her contract expired, comes with an unusual request: a court order barring Amazon from hiring any employee of the media...
(ABC Fitness Image) Replify, a Seattle startup that uses agentic AI to help fitness operators automate member and prospect communications, is being acquired by Dallas-based ABC Fitness, the companies announced Monday. Replify’s software handles phone calls, emails, chats, and texts for health...
Microsoft Security EVP Hayete Gallot introduces Project Perception’s agent teams Monday in San Francisco. (Screenshot) Microsoft on Monday unveiled Project Perception, an AI cybersecurity system built to defend against AI-driven attacks, aiming to keep pace with both hackers and its technology...
Washington Youth Aerospace, the winners of the International Rocketry Challenge, from left in black shirts, Mikhail Antipin, Antoine Vigneron, Anay Mediwala, Nikhil Sirivara, Daniel Tadesse and Bao-ky Tran, pose with European Space Agency astronauts Meganne Christian, left, and John McFall at the...
Starbucks was using technology from Redmond-based NomadGo to automate how workers counted inventory items. (Starbucks Photo) When Starbucks scrapped an AI-powered inventory counting tool back in May, just nine months after revealing the new system, it landed as a surprise to those tracking the...
Microsoft has topped earnings expectations consistently in recent years, yet its stock is near a one-year low. So while it’s worth paying attention to revenue and profits when the company reports its fiscal year-end results Wednesday, there are clearly other forces at play on...
Jeff Lyon. (LinkedIn Photo) — Jeff Lyon is now chief information security officer at Seattle’s Remitly. Lyon joins from Coinbase, where he was head of infrastructure security for two years. Past roles include security leadership at Robinhood and Amazon Web Services. Lyon also served as a petty...
Jeff Bezos uncorks the bubbly after a suborbital spaceflight in Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos may never again “walk alone.” The Amazon founder is reportedly part of a group interested in buying a 30% stake in Liverpool Football Club, the storied English...
This collage highlights some of the projects selected for funding through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, including a study looking at radioisotope heating systems for moonwalking astronauts, depicted at center left. (NASA Graphic) NASA says it’s funding a new batch of far-out...
Illustration of a patient receiving an ultrasound using Dopl’s remote technology as a medical assistant looks on. (Dopl Illustration) Dopl Technologies announced $6.3 million in new funding to support the development and commercialization of a remotely operated robotic ultrasound system. The...
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Seattle startup funding drops 40% in the first half of the year while AI money floods everywhere else. We dig into the implications for the region. Plus: a Seattle judge deals Kalshi a setback, Impinj marks a decade on the Nasdaq after a 26-year climb, and...
GeekWire File Photo Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said its frontier model research lab will continue. A company spokesperson confirmed the news of the site closure, which was first...
The biggest movie of the summer will create a big headache for film geeks in Seattle who want to see “The Odyssey” precisely as director Christopher Nolan intended. For a population that has gotten comfortable watching anything and everything streamed on TVs and smartphones, the difference...
Protesters outside Anduril’s Seattle offices on Sunday, July 19. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) Defense tech giant Anduril, which is rapidly expanding its operations in the Seattle area, is looking to raise a new round of capital that could value the company at about $100 billion, reports Reuters....
An excavator and bulldozer operating autonomously using AIM Intelligent Machines’ AI platform work at the company’s proving grounds near Monroe, Wash. (AIM Photo) In a headquarters and lab space formerly occupied by SpaceX in Redmond, Wash., AIM Intelligent Machines (AIM) is focused on solving...
Michael Beer. (Agility Robotics Photo) — Agility Robotics named Michael Beer as its chief financial officer. Current CFO and chief operating officer Jennifer Hunter will transition to serving exclusively as COO. “Michael brings outstanding public company finance and capital markets...
Roderick de Greef, CEO of BioLife Solutions. (BioLife Photo) BioLife Solutions, a Bothell, Wash.-based company developing tools for cell and gene therapy, is being acquired for $1.5 billion by the life sciences corporation Repligen. BioLife is a publicly traded business that makes products...
Amazon will begin to fold its Luna cloud platform directly into the Prime Video app via the new Games tab, in an effort to get word about Luna to Prime members. (Amazon Luna promotional image) Amazon announced today that it has updated some versions of its Prime Video app to include direct...
Hayete Gallot, now executive vice president of Microsoft Security, speaks at a Microsoft event in France in 2024. (Microsoft Photo) GeekWire is profiling over the next few weeks some of the people and teams that are shaping the evolution of Microsoft in what we’re calling its “Microsoft 2.5”...
Lacie Thompson previously worked in marketing at Expedia, Blue Nile and New Engen, and is now putting those skills to work at MediaPact. As AI changes how people discover products online, marketers are rethinking the traditional digital advertising playbook. With AI-generated answers reducing...
GeekWire File Photo Amazon confirmed Wednesday that it laid off an unspecified number of employees in its artificial general intelligence (AGI) organization, the division working on the company’s advanced AI models. The move, first reported by Reuters, comes as the company invests heavily in...
(Harebrained Schemes press image) The latest game from Seattle-based developer Harebrained Schemes, and its first since its return to independence in 2023, is a dark sci-fi/horror adventure where the player must constantly change and enhance their body in order to survive. In GRAFT, players...
Nearly 20 years ago (!), in 2007, I published my first and only book: Microsoft 2.0. It focused on changes I expected at the company in the “Post-Gates” era. What would remain the same and what likely would be different once co-founder and CEO Bill Gates had left the building? CEO Satya...
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is putting $60 million behind the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a push to use artificial intelligence to speed up scientific research across the government’s 17 national labs. The company’s investment is split into two pieces: $40...
L-R: Mantra CEO John Patrick Mullin, Docugami CEO Jean Paoli, and Inveniam CEO Patrick O’Meara. The companies are partnering to make DGML a standard for AI, with Docugami turning documents into data, Inveniam verifying it on a blockchain, and Mantra providing the chain. Jean Paoli has spent his...
Katrina Spade, CEO and founder of Recompose, a startup providing human composting as death care. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, All Episodes Last year, lifestyle icon Martha Stewart created an internet...
Two analog astronauts trudge toward the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. (Mars Society Photo) The Mars Society is planning to build a Pacific Northwest research station suitable for simulating missions to the moon or Mars, in partnership with South Seattle College. The...
Mechanical engineer Sam Heyd, Chief Technology Officer Gary Lai and chemical engineer Brenden Pelkie operate the Cold Capture system in Interlune’s Cryogenic Lab at the company’s Seattle headquarters. (Interlune Photo) Seattle-based Interlune says it has managed to produce 99% pure helium-3 from...
GeekWire Illustration A judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction against Kalshi, finding that Washington state is likely to prove that the fast-growing prediction market is running illegal online gambling. The ruling by King County Superior Court Judge John McHale, issued Monday, does...
Recording artist, DJ and entrepreneur Diplo invested in Copper. Photo via BusinessWire Seattle’s Copper has landed a high-profile new backer as it looks to accelerate growth of its consumer rewards platform, announcing Tuesday that Grammy-winning artist, DJ and entrepreneur Diplo has invested in...