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 April 26, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What it was like inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how hard it is to find anyone neutral about Musk these days. Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured...
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes a waving gesture while commenting on millionaires threatening to leave Washington state during her appearance at Seattle University earlier this month. (Screenshot via YouTube / Seattle Channel) Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being greeted with a bit of backlash...
Tracy Drinkwater engaging with visitors at the Seattle Universal Math Museum, which she founded. (SUMM Photo) Tracy Drinkwater bristles when people — sometimes proudly — declare they “can’t do math.” No one, she notes, would similarly boast about being bad at reading or history. But she...
The U.S. Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (BigStock Photo) Microsoft and Amazon joined other leading artificial intelligence companies in signing deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon networks, the Defense Department announced Friday, accelerating a push to build what the military...
Panelists during a session at the Women in Tech Regatta in Seattle on Wednesday. From left, moderator Sarah Studer of the University of Washington, Maria Martin of Nordstrom, Nandita Krishnan of Adobe, and Anya Edelstein of Highspot. (WiT Regatta Photo) Women have long been left out of the...
Merrill Keating, left, and Doña Keating are the mother-daughter co-founders of AI startup Convexus. (Photo courtesy of Merrill Keating) While much of the debate around artificial intelligence centers on the technology’s threat to jobs and society, one Seattle-area startup is turning that anxiety...
Apple’s Tim Cook, left, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. (Apple, Meta Photos) Seattle Seahawks fans envisioning another tech billionaire as the new owner of the NFL team have a couple Silicon Valley-based names to consider. Or not. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been...
Top: Center for an Informed Public co-founder Kate Starbird speaking at a University of Washington lecture. Bottom: AI House managing director Jifan Zhang and an AI House event. (CIP and GeekWire Photos) Each year, the GeekWire Awards celebrate the geeky endeavors making a meaningful impact...
The night sky over Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will take a $900 million charge in its current quarter for its one-time voluntary retirement program, the company disclosed in its earnings report Wednesday. Just to put that in...
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon’s results past Wall Street’s expectations and validating, at least for now, the company’s controversial $200 billion capital spending plan. Overall, Amazon posted sales...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. The company’s...
(BigStock Image) Editor’s note: Bill Hilf is the former CEO of Vulcan/Vale Group, current board chair of Ai2 and American Prairie, and the author of the new sci-fi novel,”The Disruption,” which explores the topics of AI and natural ecosystems. He spoke about the book on the GeekWire Podcast, and...
Angus Norton. (LinkedIn Photo) — Former Microsoft and Amazon exec Angus Norton is now CEO of Inteum, an IP management platform for university technology transfer offices. Norton joins the Kirkland, Wash.-based company from Bodhi Venture Labs, an executive services firm focused on product...
Flying Fish Partners’ Geoff Harris, Frank Chang and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo) The venture world is still digesting the eye-popping debut of London-based Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from DeepMind legend David Silver, which announced $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion...
Zap Energy’s fusion device creates a purplish glow from its hydrogen plasma. (Zap Photo) Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms together to...
(Official UWOTC-CWA image) The team developing a video game based on Magic: The Gathering announced on Tuesday that they’ve unionized, describing the move as part of an attempt to improve working conditions at Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast and create better games. United Wizards of...
AWS CEO Matt Garman at the event Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI’s new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI’s models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was...
Amazon Connect Talent shows recruiters anonymized candidate scores rather than names or resumes. (Amazon Image) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon manages more than 400 million products in its supply chain and hired 250,000 seasonal workers last peak season. Now its cloud division is packaging up what the...
Screenshots of Truveta Intelligence, showing the query interface and sample results analyzing GLP-1 drug uptake trends. (Truveta Images) Truveta wants to give healthcare researchers something that has long eluded them: the ability to ask a question about real-world patient data and get an answer...
Sniffies about page. (Screenshot) Sniffies, a Seattle-based meetup platform for gay, bisexual and sexually curious men, has landed a $100 million investment from Match Group. The deal gives Match a significant minority ownership stake in the Grindr competitor, along with an option to acquire the...
Mike Katz, T-Mobile’s chief business and product officer, speaks at an event last year highlighting the company’s longstanding satellite partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) T-Mobile is boosting its footprint as a business internet provider, expanding further beyond...
Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday amid accelerating cloud growth and a record capital spending plan. (GeekWire File Photo) Follow-up: AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday with more signs than ever that...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly...
A crowd of lawyers and reporters waits outside the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland for the start of jury selection Monday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership...
Oprah Winfrey’s video podcast will be available across Amazon platforms. (Wondery Photo) Amazon has landed talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and her video podcasts for its suite of streaming services. “Long before the term ‘creator’ existed, Oprah was building a direct and deeply personal...
Tin Can co-founder and CEO Chet Kittleson. (Tin Can Photo) Jimmy Kimmel was riffing on presidential social media habits last week when he offered a suggestion that doubled as an unscripted product endorsement. “I wonder if they’ve considered getting him one of those Tin Can phones like the...
Follow-up: Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate The last time Microsoft reported earnings, it seemed to do everything right, at least by the traditional metrics. Revenue was up 17%, profits soared 24%, and the company’s closely...
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 April 19, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Clippy almost deserves an apology, now that we’ve seen what came next. (Original cartoon: Amadeo Garcia III for GeekWire) Longtime GeekWire readers might recognize my byline from my frequent coverage of the PNW’s video game industry, as well as occasionally dipping into the arts. I am also not a...
Bill Hilf, board chair of the Allen Institute for AI and American Prairie, and author of the new novel “The Disruption.” (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Bill Hilf has spent decades working inside some of the biggest names in tech — bringing open source software into Microsoft when it was heresy,...
Qualtrics is based in Provo, Utah, and downtown Seattle (above). (GeekWire File Photo) Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard shook up the company’s senior leadership team on Friday at its dual headquarters in downtown Seattle and Provo, Utah, less than three months after taking the helm of the experience...
Derek Andersen. (Expedia Photo) — Expedia Group named Derek Andersen as its new chief financial officer starting May 11. He succeeds Scott Schenkel, who is stepping down after more than two years in the role. The Seattle-based travel giant hired Andersen from Snap, the company behind...
An AWS Graviton chip. (Amazon Photo) Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to use Amazon’s Graviton chips for agentic AI, the latest indication of growing demand for the tech giant’s growing silicon business. Bloomberg reports that the deal is worth billions of dollars over multiple years. It...
Mikaela Kiner’s new book is “The Reverb Way: How to Build a Thriving Business Without Sacrificing It All.” (Photo courtesy Mikaela Kiner) The dreamy part of Mikaela Kiner‘s life is easy to picture. She has spent her recent winters working from a small Costa Rica beach town, taking surfing...