Matt Oppenheimer, second from right, at his Dartmouth College Entrepreneur Hall of Fame induction ceremony in San Francisco on Thursday. The Remitly co-founder is joined by school friends and dignitaries, from left, Jeff Crowe, Andrea Reisman Johnson, Trevor Jensen, Maia Josebachvili, Dartmouth...
Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty, an investor in Nukleus and a spokesperson for the platform. (Nukleus Photo / Ben Miller) Hector Rivas spent a decade building ThriftBooks into one of the country’s largest used-book sellers, before an unlikely second act: co-founding a sports agency...
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen speaks at the Westin Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire photo) Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen delivered a direct message to regional leaders at the organization’s 144th annual meeting on Thursday: Seattle’s progressive...
Tents in a vacant lot in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A roster of top Seattle business leaders and regional CEOs is demanding urgent action from City Hall on public safety, calling on Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council to roll out a concrete 100-day...
Amazon Quick’s new activity feed on mobile: the morning priority view, left, and the full feed. (Amazon Images) Amazon is adding the Activity Feed and other features from its Quick desktop app to the AI assistant’s mobile apps for iOS and Android. The Activity Feed is the signature feature of...
Latch co-founders Jared Kofron (left) and Stefan Kalb. (Photo via Latch) Seattle startup veteran Stefan Kalb is back with a fresh brand and an ambitious vision for enterprise automation in the AI era. Rebranded earlier this year from Super Labs, Kalb’s latest venture, Latch, is positioning...
Pavan Davuluri says Windows will keep serving human users while adding agentic workloads. (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” era. Just Don’t Call It...
(Amazon press image) The September update for Amazon’s cloud-based gaming service Luna comes with multiple new features, the most prominent of which is one that will allow up to 7 other players to remotely participate in the same gaming session. Since its aggressive relaunch earlier this...
Michael Jensen, left, and Steven Brugger are leading BrainChild Bio. (Photos via BrainChild Bio) Seattle biotech startup BrainChild Bio has raised $116 million to advance an experimental CAR T cell therapy for one of the deadliest forms of childhood brain cancer. The Series A financing will...
A new report says Seattle’s economy “may not be in decline, but it is in danger.” (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) An independent study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city’s tax structure is unique among its peers in the way it “specifically penalizes the hiring of senior,...
A Microsoft Surface tablet running Copilot at Lumen Field in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Microsoft Surface tablets on NFL sidelines — a game-day fixture since 2014 — got a close-up on national television Wednesday night, with NBC highlighting new AI-powered workflows...
New Amazon board member Kevin Mandia is a cybersecurity veteran. (Photo via Amazon) Amazon named cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, adding new security expertise a few months after former NSA director Keith Alexander stepped down. Mandia founded Mandiant, the...
Seattle’s foundation as a hub of technology, science and innovation runs deep. Its confidence should, too. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: Jacob Colker is co-founder and co-managing director of AI House.] Seattle is one of the most talented, creative and inventive places in...
The West8 office building in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood. (Image via West8Seattle.com) General Motors is expanding its presence in the Seattle region with a new downtown office slated to open in early 2027. The automotive giant signed a lease for a 43,000-square-foot space at West8...
Test equipment measures a chip that uses NLM’s technology, showing how cleanly it carries high-speed data. (NLM Photonics Photo) NLM Photonics, a Seattle-based chip materials startup and University of Washington spinout, announced two new investors: Pangaea Ventures and Diamond Edge Ventures,...
A robot arm pours from a test tube into a beaker in General Robotics’ lab. The company used the task, and progressively harder versions of it, to test its Auto Engineering system. (General Robotics Photo) A Redmond, Wash., robotics software startup founded by former Microsoft researchers says...
Helion Energy’s new Seattle office. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy, in its hard-charging pursuit of fusion energy, has opened an office in downtown Seattle as its headcount swells to 800 employees. The company already occupies five buildings in Everett, Wash., where it’s headquartered, plus...
Jessica Uhl. (T-Mobile Photo) — Telecom giant T-Mobile announced that Jessica Uhl will join as chief financial officer-designate later this month, and succeed Peter Osvaldik as CFO in February. Uhl served as CFO of Shell and worked for the global oil and energy giant for more than 17 years. She...
Hadi Partovi, left and Becca Oystila during their wedding in a recreated/historic Viking village in Sweden. (Tommy Agriodimas Photo) Maybe Hadi Partovi could use his sword or hammer to slay AI slop. The co-founder of CodeAI, the computer science education platform that rebranded from Code.org...
A village of Pallet tiny houses, with some customization by residents. (Pallet Photo) Nine years after setting out to tackle unsheltered homelessness with rapidly deployable, hard-panel micro-shelters, Everett, Wash.-based social purpose corporation Pallet is closing its business. In a post...
Stoke Space’s Nova Pathfinder upper stage flight article No. 1 sits at the company’s factory in Kent, Wash. (Stoke Space Photo) Stoke Space says it has raised roughly $1 billion to get ready for the first launch of its fully reusable Nova rocket — and to scale up the rocket’s design for even...
Seattle Transit Live, a circuit board map of Seattle-area trains, ferries and more. (Michael Benedict Photo) When Sound Transit opened the light rail 2 Line across Lake Washington in March, software engineer Michael Benedict built a custom gift to mark the milestone for his transit-fanatic wife:...
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 Aug. 30, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
An artist’s conception shows one of Cowboy Space’s data centers in Earth orbit. (Cowboy Space via LinkedIn) California-based Cowboy Space is leasing a 291,035-square-foot industrial facility in Kent, Wash., to support the production of hardware for its planned constellation of AI data center...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: The NBA suspends former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a year and hits the Clippers with $30 million in fines and five lost draft picks over allegedly sham endorsement deals for Kawhi Leonard, drawing comparisons to the Microsoft antitrust era. A new...
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Friday, accusing the tech companies of using their journalism to train AI products without permission. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle...
Betsy Cantwell, president of Washington State University, poses alongside an appropriately colored painting at Seattle’s Washington Athletic Club. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) WSU President Betsy Cantwell is a full-on techie. She spent more than two decades in national laboratories...
Sonic on display at the 210 Gallery in Pioneer Square on Sept. 3, as part of a media preview event. (GeekWire Photo / Thomas Wilde) If you attended the Sunset Market in Seattle’s Pioneer Square on Thursday night, you might’ve noticed that one of the local galleries had been transformed into a...
A hamburger photographed by SP Studio, left, and then tweaked by Scott Pitts in Pallat to add tomatoes. (Pallat Images) Longtime Seattle food photographer Scott Pitts spent 25 years capturing commercial imagery for major brands, and now he’s using that quarter-century archive to train Pallat....
Teens are taking questions about their health, their moods and their friendships to chatbots — often without telling anyone. (GPT-5.6 Sol) Kids are heading back to school across the country with a tool in their pocket that will do their homework, answer the questions they’re too embarrassed to...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addresses hundreds of Rocketdyne employees during his stopover at the company’s facility in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman came to Rocketdyne’s facility here today to give a pep talk to the space...
Sunny Gupta and the Seattle Seahawks mascot Blitz during a game at Lumen Field. (Photo courtesy of Sunny Gupta) Sunny Gupta has been a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan for almost 20 years, hosting tailgates and sitting in the exact same club-level seats with his family and friends since 2007. Now,...
The Seahawks open the 2026 season at Lumen Field on Sept. 9 against the New England Patriots. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The sale of the Seattle Seahawks to the Khosla family officially closed on Thursday, completing a historic ownership transition for the NFL franchise. But a small...
Kevin Owens, co-founder and CEO of Resect AI. (Resect AI Photo) Resect AI, an artificial intelligence startup led by a team of scientists and engineers in Washougal, Wash., launched out of stealth Thursday with $25 million in funding to commercialize an open-source technology designed to catch...
Aneesh Raman. (LinkedIn Photo) — Aneesh Raman has taken the role of chief economic opportunity officer at Microsoft. He previously held the same title at LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary where he worked for five years. The job is focused on “helping companies, including our own, build and...