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Microsoft exec Charles Lamanna on how AI is creating an expensive new request from job candidates
Mrz 25, 2026
Charles Lamanna (left), Microsoft’s executive vice president of Business Applications & Agents, interviewed by GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event at Block 41 in Seattle on March 24. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Work perks are taking on...
Epic Games layoffs impact 82 workers at Seattle-area office as part of broader cuts
Mrz 24, 2026
(Epic Games Photo) Epic Games, the gaming giant behind Fortnite, is laying off 82 employees at its Bellevue, Wash.-based office, according to a WARN notice filed with Washington state regulators. Epic announced Tuesday that it is laying off 1,000 employees across the company, or about 20% of...
Brinc unveils Guardian, a Starlink-connected drone that could ‘replace the police helicopter’
Mrz 24, 2026
Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, with the company’s new Guardian public safety drone in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones founder and CEO Blake Resnick has a big vision for what the company’s largest-ever drone can accomplish. “To replace the police...
Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startup’s rapid growth
Mrz 24, 2026
The main floor of the new Brinc Drones factory and headquarters location in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of public safety drones for first responders, is moving its headquarters and factory space to a massive...
Tech Moves: More changes at Xbox; Remitly taps new accounting chief; Atlassian CTO steps down
Mrz 24, 2026
Lori Wright. (Photo via LinkedIn) — There’s more shake-up within Microsoft’s gaming unit as Lori Wright announced she is leaving “in the coming weeks.” Wright spent nine years at Microsoft, most recently leading global partnerships and business development and marketing for Xbox. “I leave...
Big ideas, early traction: AI founders pitch VCs at Seattle-area startup showcase
Mrz 24, 2026
Panelists Hang Huang (InsForge), Brooke Borseth (FUSE), and Nate Bek (Ascend) with moderator Ke Du, offer the perspective from investors at the Seattle AI Startup Showcase. (Photo courtesy B.E.L.L.E) Imagine you’re a property manager, and a washing machine breaks in one of your units. You text a...
The guardian angel of groceries: Katherine Sizov’s tech-led quest to modernize our food system
Mrz 24, 2026
Katherine Sizov, CEO and co-founder of Strella, was recognized this year as a 30 Under 30 leader by Forbes. (Photo courtesy of Sizov) Almost a decade ago, a shocking statistic put Katherine Sizov on a new career path. Sizov was doing neuroscience research at the NIH but knew the role wasn’t...
Ai2 releases open-source web agent to rival closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic
Mrz 24, 2026
The Allen Institute for AI is releasing an open-source web agent that can navigate and complete tasks in a browser — letting developers look under the hood to understand what’s happening in ways not possible with closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The nonprofit...
Microsoft, Lime and others helping to celebrate opening of new light rail line from Seattle to Eastside
Mrz 24, 2026
The Link light rail 2 Line heads east toward Lake Washigton with downtown Seattle and Lumen Field in the background. (Sound Transit Photo) Sound Transit’s Link light rail will carry passengers across Lake Washington for the first time on Saturday with the opening of the Crosslake Connection, and...
Microsoft hires former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi and key researchers for Suleyman’s AI team
Mrz 23, 2026
Ali Farhadi speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle, May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali...
GeekWire’s AI summit is Tuesday: What to know if you’re attending our ‘Agents of Transformation’ event
Mrz 23, 2026
There’s still time to grab a last-minute ticket for GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation, a half-day summit in Seattle on Tuesday that will explore how agentic AI is redefining work, creativity, and leadership. Keep reading for details about our speaker lineup, the schedule, logistical...
Opinion: The AI white collar displacement debate — doom or delay?
Mrz 23, 2026
Editor’s note: GeekWire publishes guest opinions to foster informed discussion and highlight a diversity of perspectives on issues shaping the tech and startup community. If you’re interested in submitting a guest column, email us at tips@geekwire.com. Submissions are reviewed by our editorial team...
Report: Helion is working on a massive fusion power deal with OpenAI
Mrz 23, 2026
Helion Energy’s Polaris fusion demonstration reactor operating with tritium and deuterium fuel. (Helion Photo) The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is negotiating a deal to supply OpenAI with massive amounts of energy, Axios reported Monday. The deal under discussion would have...
10 startups chosen for Plug and Play’s third Seattle-area accelerator cohort
Mrz 23, 2026
Startup founders who pitched for a chance to join the latest Plug and Play Cohort. (Photo courtesy of Plug and Play) Plug and Play has selected the 10 startups that will take part in its third Seattle-area accelerator cohort as the program marks its one-year anniversary in the region. The...
Sci-fi epic ‘Project Hail Mary’ gives Amazon MGM Studios its best opening ever with $80.6M
Mrz 23, 2026
Ryan Gosling set out to save the planet, and he may just save Amazon’s movie-making credibility. “Project Hail Mary,” the sci-fi epic that stars Gosling as a scientist sent on a mission to save Earth from extinction, grossed $80.6 million in its opening weekend, marking the biggest box...
AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era
Mrz 22, 2026
Jeff Bezos framed this copy of a 2006 BusinessWeek cover, reflecting Wall Street’s skepticism about AWS. (Jeff Bezos via X, May 2022) In the early days of Amazon Web Services, technical evangelist Jeff Barr was putting in long hours on the road, pitching a novel concept: rent computing power for...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 15, 2026
Mrz 22, 2026
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 March 15, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
51,600 more satellites? Blue Origin adds another twist to the data center space race with Project Sunrise
Mrz 21, 2026
An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (OneWeb Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is asking the Federal Communications Commission for authority to send up to 51,600 data center satellites into low Earth orbit, signaling its entry into an...
Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds
Mrz 21, 2026
An artist’s conception of Amazon’s Leo satellite constellation. The satellite internet initiative sits in the same division as Amazon’s new phone project, raising the question of whether Amazon could eventually provide its own wireless connectivity. (Amazon Illustration) When Reuters reported...
Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn
Mrz 21, 2026
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after the Fire Phone debacle, according to Reuters. We dig into the connection to a past GeekWire scoop: former Microsoft Xbox leader J Allard joined Amazon’s devices team...
Report: Amazon is making another phone, this time for the AI era
Mrz 20, 2026
Different this time? Jeff Bezos unveils the Amazon Fire Phone in June 2014. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is working on another phone. That’s the jaw-dropper from Reuters this morning, reporting that the company is developing a new smartphone codenamed “Transformer” within its...
Seattle’s biotech scene is world-class — Life Science Washington is teaching it how to brag
Mrz 20, 2026
Marc Cummings, president and CEO of Life Science Washington, speaking at a one-day forum focused on AI-driven biotech that was held in Seattle in October 2025. (Life Science Washington Photo) Seattle is already a top global hub for AI-driven biotechnology. It just doesn’t know how to say...
Tech Moves: Carbon Robotics’ new CFO; Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix; Nordstrom gets VP of AI
Mrz 20, 2026
Kevan Kryslter, CFO of Carbon Robotics. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Agtech company Carbon Robotics appointed Kevan Krysler as chief financial officer. The Seattle startup, known for zapping weeds with lasers, reports it has surpassed $100 million in annual revenue. Carbon has also been name-checked...
Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the wheel of Treasure Truck
Mrz 20, 2026
Amazon’s beloved Treasure Truck finally ran out of road in 2022, after about a seven-year run. But Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores and an early champion of the deals-on-wheels concept, once worried that Marshawn Lynch was going to crash the party just as it got rolling. In...
Sidewalk scooter riders, beware: AI-powered ‘Lime Vision’ will soon call you out
Mrz 20, 2026
A Lime e-scooter rider cruises past on the sidewalk in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, home to Amazon HQ. New tech on the scooters coming this summer will generate audible and app alerts warning riders to move to a safer riding area. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Lime scooters in...
Bluesky discloses $100M Series B round raised last year
Mrz 19, 2026
Decentralized social network Bluesky revealed on Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True Ventures. The round closed in April 2025. Bluesky previously...
GeekWire Awards: Billion-dollar deals, rare IPO, pharma pact, and mega-round vie for Deal of the Year
Mrz 19, 2026
The finalists for Deal of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards. Clockwise from top left: Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev; Protect AI co-founders Badar Ahmed, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, and Ian Swanson; Kestra Medical Technologies’ cardiac monitoring device; the ribbon cutting at...
City of Seattle awards $455k in ‘Technology Matching Fund’ grants to support digital equity efforts
Mrz 19, 2026
The TMF program is a partnership between the City of Seattle and community organizations improving digital literacy and skills for underserved communities. (City of Seattle Photo) The City of Seattle is awarding $455,000 in Technology Matching Fund grants to help support 11 community...
The rise of vertical AI agents — and the startups racing to build them
Mrz 19, 2026
San Francisco startup Nooks hosted a panel in Seattle last month focused on vertical AI agents. From left: Chinmay Barve, vice president of engineering at Nooks; Nikhil Cheerla, CTO at Nooks; Sharbani Roy, VP of AI Services at Arm; and Joe Duffy, CEO and founder at Pulumi. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor...
From computer to lab to market: Nobel winner David Baker lands $7M for new protein program
Mrz 19, 2026
Research underway at UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Nobel Laureate David Baker will lead a new University of Washington initiative that’s launching with $7 million to develop designer enzymes and proteins to solve challenges in medicine, technology...
Got space junk? Portal and Paladin team up to create an orbital trash disposal service
Mrz 19, 2026
An artist’s conception shows Portal Space Systems’ Starburst spacecraft at left and its larger Supernova platform in the distance at right, both outfitted with Paladin Space’s Triton payload for orbital debris tracking and removal. (Portal Space Systems Illustration) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal...
Portland cybersecurity startup Eclypsium raises $25M to secure AI infrastructure
Mrz 19, 2026
Eclypsium co-founders Yuriy Bulygin, left, and Alex Bazhaniuk. (Eclypsium Photo) Eclypsium, a Portland-based cybersecurity startup, raised $25 million in new funding to expand its hardware and firmware security platform. The round was led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital, with participation from...
AI enters the chat: New Seattle dating app relies on tech to facilitate meaningful human connections
Mrz 19, 2026
Screen grabs from the Lamu app show various interactions with AI, including, from left, answering profile questions, receiving a “love score” and completed profile, and discussing date location options. (Lamu Images) Ada Jin was suffering from dating app fatigue. She was tired of the constant...
Compass drops lawsuit against Zillow over home-listing policy
Mrz 18, 2026
(BigStock Photo) This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. One of the biggest lawsuits to capture the real estate industry’s attention over the past year has come to an abrupt end. Compass International Holdings announced Wednesday that it is dismissing the lawsuit it filed last...
Microsoft nixes NDAs with local governments worldwide when deploying data centers
Mrz 18, 2026
Microsoft’s Fairwater data center near Atlanta is part of the company’s broader AI expansion. (Microsoft Photo) Amid widespread blowback against the spread of data centers, Microsoft on Wednesday announced it is abandoning its practice of secrecy with local governments when deploying new...
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