05 de junho de 2015
Who gives a Zuck? Seattle does, apparently: Meta CEO’s giant yacht brings gawkers to Lake Union
maio 28, 2026
Two people in a dinghy get a c loser look at Launchpad, the superyacht docked in Seattle on Lake Union on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) People saw it on Facebook. And they saw it on Instagram. But many had to come see it up close and in person. Social media scrollers turned...
Blue Origin readies New Glenn rocket to launch 48 Amazon Leo satellites after FAA clearance
maio 27, 2026
New Glenn rockets are being processed inside Blue Origin’s Florida facility. (Blue Origin Photo) Five weeks after experiencing its first launch failure, Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin is getting ready to put its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket back in service to launch 48 satellites into low Earth...
Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal
maio 27, 2026
Snowflake’s office in Bellevue’s Spring District, where it expanded its regional presence last year. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Snowflake on Wednesday committed to spend $6 billion on Amazon Web Services over five years, adding to the cloud giant’s growing roster of AI infrastructure...
Seattle teens to take on real-world ocean science challenges in underwater robotics championship
maio 27, 2026
The Triton Robotics team, back row from left: Griffin Fisher, Tenzin Larkin, Thomas Gust, Simon Hajduk, Theo Lipson. Front row from left: Miles Lipson, Emi Enoki. (Triton Robotics Photo) A team of Seattle high schoolers will compete against underwater robotics teams from around the world during...
CodeIntegrity raises $5M to put permanent guardrails on unpredictable AI agents
maio 27, 2026
CodeIntegrity’s co-founders are CEO Steven Jung, left, and CTO Abi Raghuram. (CodeIntegrity Photo) The computer security startup CodeIntegrity on Wednesday announced a $5 million seed round to support its efforts to build meaningful protections for agentic AI applications. The San...
Eli Lilly to acquire Seattle-area biotech in $1.5 billion bet on next-generation shingles vaccine
maio 27, 2026
Curevo CEO George Simeon. (Curevo Photo) Eli Lilly has agreed to acquire Curevo Vaccine in a deal centered on a next-generation shingles vaccine aimed at improving tolerability and boosting vaccination rates among older adults. The deal includes up to $1.5 billion in cash for the Bothell,...
Amazon offers its AI shopping tech to outside retailers in new phase of agentic commerce race
maio 27, 2026
A demo of the AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant: an AI-powered style advisor operating on a retailer’s mobile site. (AWS Photo) Amazon’s cloud division announced an AI shopping assistant for retailers, following the company’s broader blueprint of turning its internal technology into products for...
Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs
maio 27, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg’s 387-foot superyacht Launchpad passes through Seattle’s Ballard Locks on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht passed through Seattle’s Ballard Locks on Tuesday, the same day Meta disclosed plans to cut nearly 1,400 jobs in Washington...
NASA taps Blue Origin to deliver lunar rovers for Moon Base initiative
maio 27, 2026
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander lowering an Astrolab rover to the lunar surface. (NASA Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won NASA’s nod to deliver crew-carrying rovers to the lunar surface as part of the space agency’s decade-long plan to...
Etzioni on AI: The Pope can talk, but only we can walk
maio 26, 2026
On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas — “Magnificent Humanity”— the first encyclical of his papacy, subtitled “On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” There’s something incongruous about turning to the Catholic Church for moral guidance on...
Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp
maio 26, 2026
One of Meta’s buildings in Bellevue’s Spring District, where nearly 700 jobs are being cut. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Facebook parent company Meta is cutting 1,395 jobs in Washington state, about 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide effort eliminating about 8,000...
No dirt, no tractor, no problem: Canopii aims to tuck robotic farms into tennis court-sized urban spaces
maio 26, 2026
Canopii’s team among its robotic system and basil plants. CEO and co-founder David Ashton is tossing greens. (Canopii Photo / Bryan Aulick) A running joke in the agricultural field is the average age of a U.S. farmer is 58 today, but that will tick up by one next year. The trouble is, it’s not...
Climate progress at 30,000 feet: Alaska Airlines’ Ryan Spies on the flight path to sustainable aviation
maio 26, 2026
Ryan Spies, Alaska Airlines’ managing director of sustainability. (Photo courtesy of Spies) Ryan Spies, Alaska Airlines’ managing director of sustainability, isn’t a climate perfectionist. Yes, he drives an EV — but he also eats a relatively carbon-intensive cheeseburger now and then. What...
New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions
maio 25, 2026
Hadi Partovi, founder of Code.org and new CEO of Payam Music, speaking at a Microsoft event in July 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Hadi Partovi helped kids around the world learn to code. Next on the playlist: piano. The Code.org founder, who earlier this year handed off the CEO role at...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 17, 2026
maio 24, 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 May 17, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Etzioni on AI: The Virgin Unicorns
maio 24, 2026
Illustration generated by Google Gemini Twelve AI labs have a combined valuation larger than Ford and GM. None of them sell anything. I call them the Virgin Unicorns — valued above a billion dollars, but innocent of product or revenue. OpenAI proved that an AI research lab with the right...
SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink’s impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer
maio 23, 2026
This week on a supersized Memorial Day Weekend edition of the GeekWire Podcast: A massive IPO filing from SpaceX includes new details about Elon Musk’s Starlink business and its satellite factory in Redmond. Jeff Bezos talks about wealth, inequality and eventually tech in an hour-long...
Robot pizza startup runs out of dough: Picnic shuts down, sells assets to mystery buyer
maio 23, 2026
Freshly sliced pepperoni is delivered via conveyer belt onto a pizza being assembled by a Picnic pizza-making robot. (GeekWire File Photo) Picnic, the 10-year-old Seattle food automation startup that set out to revolutionize the production of pizza with robotics, has shut down and liquidated its...
What’s next for Bungie? Rumored layoffs and end of ‘Destiny 2’ updates raise questions about studio’s future
maio 22, 2026
(Bungie press image) Thursday abruptly became a big news day for fans of Bellevue, Wash.-based video game developer Bungie, which announced that it plans to cease development on its popular online shooter Destiny 2. Eight hours after Bungie’s announcement, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier released...
Tech Moves: Xbox names CTO; Smartsheet gets first AI chief; Amazon VP departs for DoorDash
maio 22, 2026
Scott Van Vliet. (LinkedIn Photo) — Microsoft’s Xbox promoted Scott Van Vliet to the role of chief technology officer. Van Vliet, based in the Los Angeles area, has been with the company across two stints totaling more than seven years, with work on Teams and Azure Communication...
Bellevue teens targeting salmon die-offs and mental health win big at international science fair
maio 22, 2026
Lakshmi Agrawal, left, and Anusha Arora, both of Bellevue, Wash., hold their prizes at the Society for Science’s Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair earlier this month. (Lisa Fryklund / Licensed by Society for Science) Two teenagers from Bellevue, Wash., took home a combined...
The view from Bellevue: Seattle has the foundation for future growth — if it can fix its taxes
maio 22, 2026
Participants at the Bellevue Chamber’s Seattle-focused luncheon, from left: Joe Nguyen, Seattle Metro Chamber; Tiffini Connell, West Coast Commercial Realty; Jon Scholes, Downtown Seattle Association; and moderator Joe Fain, Bellevue Chamber. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) BELLEVUE, Wash. —...
A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year
maio 22, 2026
Yusuf Mehdi speaks at Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC event in May 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Yusuf Mehdi, one of Microsoft’s best-known and longest-serving business leaders, whose tenure has spanned 35 years from Windows 3.1 to Copilot, plans to leave the company after one more year — his...
Why this Seattle-area startup is putting its name on the front of an English Premier League soccer team
maio 21, 2026
Crystal Palace Football Club and Seattle-area open-source software platform Temporal are partnering on a front-of-shirt sponsorship deal. (Crystal Palace Image) A Seattle-area developer tools startup is doing something that no amount of banner ads or conference booths could: it’s putting its...
CEO of Paul Allen’s $3.1B science and tech fund steps down less than a year after launch
maio 21, 2026
Dr. Lynda Stuart’s last day at the Fund for Science and Technology was May 8. (File photo courtesy FFST) The first CEO of the Fund for Science and Technology, the $3.1 billion foundation responsible for giving away a large portion of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s fortune, has...
SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing
maio 21, 2026
SpaceX is producing an average of 70 Starlink satellites per week in Redmond, its IPO filing shows. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Redmond, Wash., has been known for decades as the home of Microsoft, to the extent that the city’s name has become synonymous with the software giant. Maybe it’s time...
UW’s Ed Lazowska adds ‘Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award’ to his long list of honors
maio 21, 2026
University of Washington professor emeritus Ed Lazowska. (UW Photo / Mark Stone) Ed Lazowska needs to clear more room in the trophy case. The University of Washington professor emeritus — a longtime computer science educator, researcher and fixture in Seattle’s tech community — has been...
Opinion: Washington state’s tax debate is missing half the equation
maio 21, 2026
Housing costs, public safety concerns and the local political climate have all contributed to Seattle’s struggles. But tax policy influences business decisions too, particularly at the margin where firms decide where future hiring and expansion will occur. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt...
EV startup Electric Era launches battery systems to tackle data center energy crunch
maio 21, 2026
Artist’s rendering of a CoPower Platform by Electric Era. (Electric Era Image). Seattle EV charging startup Electric Era is applying its battery expertise to energy storage systems for data centers. The company on Thursday announced the CoPower Platform, which pairs large batteries with the...
Meet the company that won the Microsoft-donated World Cup suite with a $100k bid for a great cause
maio 21, 2026
L-R: Michael Atalla, chief marketing officer at UiPath and Katie Fath, director of community giving at Seattle Children’s Hospital with John Cook, GeekWire co-founder and publisher. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Seattle’s business and tech community just delivered a World Cup-sized assist for a...
AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains why vision comes first
maio 21, 2026
GeekWire’s Todd Bishop interviews author and strategist Brian Evergreen for the GeekWire Podcast at an Agents of Transformation dinner presented by Accenture at El Gaucho in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Holly Grambihler) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire...
Data center resistance comes home to Seattle as council considers a one-year freeze
maio 20, 2026
The rooftop park on Ocean Pavilion offers views of the Seattle skyline and Elliott Bay. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) While tech companies including Microsoft and Amazon call the Seattle area home, residents are voicing opposition to the construction of new data centers that underpin their...
‘One of a kind’: Tributes pour in for S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, beloved tech mentor and friend
maio 20, 2026
S. “Soma” Somasegar at AWS re:Invent in 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The tributes came quickly for S. “Soma” Somasegar, and they came from seemingly everywhere and everyone he touched across the technology and business community. A consistent picture emerged: Somasegar was kind,...
Former Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a new gig — startup CEO
maio 20, 2026
Former Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle in October 2022. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Bruce Harrell has a new job — with term sheets and customers as opposed to stump speeches and constituents. The former mayor of Seattle is the new CEO of Filium, a...
At Tech Alliance annual luncheon, a stark analysis and a call to action
maio 20, 2026
Tech Alliance CEO Laura Ruderman addresses the crowd at State of Technology luncheon in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s a complicated moment in Washington, our home state, where the tech giants are strong, the satellites are abundant, and economic growth may no longer be above...
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