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...
Impinj co-founder and CEO Chris Diorio, center, and members of the Impinj team at the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony in New York City on Tuesday, marking the 10th anniversary of the company’s IPO. (Nasdaq Photo) Backstage at a Seattle tech event in the early 2000s, Chris Diorio was waiting his...
An interactive map displays the sites of wildfires, earthquakes and severe weather events, with links to satellite imagery. (Credit: TerraByte) Two months after emerging from stealth mode, TerraByte AI is using artificial intelligence and a new partnership to upgrade its “Earth Search...
From left: Clarify CEO Patrick Thompson, Seam AI CEO Nicholas Scavone, and Clarify CTO Ondrej Hrebicek. (Clarify and Seam Photos) Clarify, the Seattle-based AI startup that has raised more than $22 million to take on Salesforce and other CRM incumbents, has made its first acquisition: San...
Sila began operations at its Moses Lake, Wash., plant in September. (Sila Photo) Sila, a startup producing next-generation battery materials, on Tuesday announced $300 million in new funding. The company previously raised $1.3 billion and was valued at close to $2 billion two years ago,...
A painting of Jimothy, the viral raccoon, by Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward. (@henry_beyond_museums via Instagram) Jimothy isn’t just a viral internet sensation — he’s a cause for good. A painting of the beloved raccoon by Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward attracted a winning bid of $6,543.21 in...
Melanie Nakagawa, Microsoft chief sustainability officer, left, speaking with GeekWire reporter Lisa Stiffler at a fireside chat at Seattle City Hall on July 17. (PNW Climate Week / Fer Sagastume Photo) Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa faced a barrage of pointed questions...
Rudra Mitra will lead Amazon security services in his new role. (LinkedIn Photo) Rudra “Rudy” Mitra, who spent more than 27 years at Microsoft and most recently led its Purview data-security business, is joining Amazon Web Services as vice president of security services. Mitra will oversee an...
Nscale’s Nidhi Chappell. Photo via Nscale. Fresh off a $2 billion fundraising and $900 million line of credit, London-based data center startup Nscale is planning a big expansion at a new engineering office in Bellevue, Wash. Nscale, one of the fastest-growing companies building AI computing...
The “Jimothy” video game features Seattle’s beloved raccoon making his way through assorted challenges. (Image via Chris Pirillo) Jimothy, the short-spined Seattle raccoon, has become a global sensation whose likeness has been immortalized in artwork, clothing, songs and tattoos — and now a...
(Image generated by Google Gemini) Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump agree on almost nothing. But they do agree that the public should own a piece of the AI industry. The Vermont senator and the president disagree on both the structure and stake of public ownership, but the idea is being...
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 July 12, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Defense giant Anduril is operating its autonomous naval vessel manufacturing facility at the old Foss Shipyard on the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. Demonstrators plan to protest a different location, Anduril’s downtown Seattle office. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) A coalition of...
Vinod Khosla at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in October 2024. (TechCrunch Photo / Flickr / CC BY 2.0) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla’s family is leading a group that’s buying the Seattle Seahawks for a record $9.6 billion. We dug into hours of...
Maggie Hollinbeck and James Wagar are leading the charge on Month Offline Seattle, a move to get people off their smartphones. Seattle helped create the modern smartphone era. Now, nearly 40 people in the heart of one of the world’s biggest technology hubs are voluntarily putting theirs...
Credits: Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone and Sylvain Sarrailh for Wizards of the Coast. One of the biggest hits ever produced by Seattle’s independent video game scene is joining the Magic: The Gathering multiverse later this month. Sort of. Magic, the long-running collectible card game published...
Anand Subbaraman. (LinkedIn Photo) Anand Subbaraman is departing as CEO of Icertis, the Bellevue, Wash.-based contract management software company said Friday. Chief Financial Officer Rajat Bahri and longtime executive and Icertis board member Jim Moffatt will serve as interim co-CEOs as Icertis...
Dave Brown, the departing AWS senior vice president, has been a member of its senior leadership team. (Amazon Photo) One of Amazon’s top cloud leaders will be joining Meta as the Facebook parent company considers turning its massive AI buildout into a cloud business of its own. That’s the...
A tribute to venture capitalist S. “Soma” Somasegar before the Sounders FC match. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) The Seattle Sounders paused before Thursday night’s rivalry match against the Portland Timbers to honor one of their own. Before the match at Lumen Field, the club paid tribute to S....
Part of the Seattle skyline as seen from the waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) For the first time in several years, there are indications that the worst may be over for the Seattle region’s battered office market — and artificial intelligence companies appear to be playing a leading...
(Image via Shaped) Live-shopping unicorn Whatnot is expanding its AI capabilities with the acquisition of Shaped, a startup that builds real-time recommendation and search technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shaped founder and CEO Tullie Murrell will join Whatnot to...
Cathy Peterman. (F5 Photo) — F5 named former Amazon executive Cathy Peterman as executive vice president and chief people officer of the Seattle-based application-delivery and security company. In May, F5 celebrated its 30th year in business. “Cathy brings a rare combination of strategic...
Tyler Rivers, founder and CEO of Seattle-area electronics recycler Living Green Technology, examines some of the artifacts he rescued this week, including vintage hybrid microcircuits, left, which showcase the delicate gold-bonded wiring and silicon architectures hidden inside....
Varun Chitre, CEO, left, and Tarun Vashisth, CTO, co-founders of logcat.ai. (logcat.ai Photos) The past two years have transformed the world of software development, but there’s at least one area that remains largely untouched by artificial intelligence: the operating-system layer inside phones,...
Dave Brown, departing AWS executive, in 2023. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) [Update, Friday, July 17: Brown is joining Meta, the WSJ reported. More here.] Dave Brown, who joined Amazon Web Services as one of its earliest EC2 engineers and rose to lead its compute, AI and machine learning...