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Articles from 2023

Car industry analyst: Amazon’s move into vehicle sales ‘just makes sense’

Amazon caused a spark in the car industry Thursday, announcing a new deal with Hyundai to let customers buy cars… Read More

No new unicorns in Seattle: The billion-dollar startup milestone is harder to reach these days

The unicorn stampede in Seattle has screeched to a halt. During venture capital boom times in the midst of the… Read More

Paul Allen Foundation giving another $10M to support arts and culture groups in Washington state

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is giving another $10 million to support arts and culture in Washington state, building… Read More

Amazon is helping a longtime Seattle art school move into modern space at base of HQ building

Gage Academy of Art, a longtime school located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, is moving to a modern facility at… Read More

New website helps engineers find biomedical challenges that crown winning algorithms

There are lots of tasks in biomedicine that are more accurately and efficiently accomplished by a computer than a person… Read More

Flight director at Amazon's Project Kuiper mission operations center

Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites ace orbital tests — including video streaming

Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network streamed its first video and facilitated its first online sale during a monthlong series of… Read More

UW computer science research event offers a glimpse of the future at the dawn of AI

Inside one of the University of Washington’s computer science buildings on Tuesday evening, students showed off smart earrings that monitor… Read More

Seattle mayor may finally get city to test gunshot detection tech

Seattle moved one step closer to rolling out a gunshot detection pilot, after a bid by councilmembers to reroute funding… Read More

Microsoft unveils custom AI chip, with help from OpenAI, playing catch-up with Amazon

Microsoft publicly confirmed its long-rumored plan to introduce its own datacenter processors, including one optimized for artificial intelligence and refined… Read More

Amazon’s Astro robot gets its first job, going to work as a security guard

Amazon is rolling out its Astro robot as a security guard for businesses, using its HD periscope and night vision… Read More

Seattle data infrastructure startup led by Fabric co-founder emerges from stealth with $4M

Former executives at Seattle e-commerce software startup Fabric, including co-founder Ryan Bartley, are leading a new company coming out of… Read More

Orbite customers on zero-G airplane flight

Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called… Read More

Climate startup OCOchem, which recycles CO2 into fuels and chemicals, lands $5M

OCOchem, a Richland, Wash.-based startup, raised $5 million to scale its technology for turning carbon dioxide into chemicals that can… Read More

The potential next big investment opportunity in gaming

If there’s a single good window for would-be gaming investors at the moment, it may come from the necessity for… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona investor returns to Microsoft; Edifecs adds CFO; and more

— Aseem Datar, partner at Madrona Venture Group, is headed back to Microsoft in a new role as vice president. Datar… Read More

Amazon will officially merge Comixology with Kindle in December

Amazon will merge its digital comics storefront Comixology with Kindle on Dec. 4, which will also involve the official end… Read More

Seattle Metro Chamber launches online tool to help small businesses connect to key resources

Entrepreneurs and small business owners looking for resources to help get things off the ground or boost an existing venture… Read More

The GeekWire Gala — Seattle’s geekiest holiday party — returns to Showbox Market on Dec. 6

Ready to dress up and geek out? The GeekWire Gala, our annual festive holiday function, returns to downtown Seattle on… Read More

Uncommon Thinkers: Elizabeth Hansen uses her job as an anesthesiologist to cut carbon emissions

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming… Read More

Inrix to acquire Portland startup Ride Report, which helps cities manage mobility programs

Transportation software company Inrix acquired Ride Report, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that helps city governments manage shared mobility fleets. Founded… Read More

Inaugural report from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy reveals promising climate tech solutions

In the world of Bill Gates, many — maybe most? — of the world’s big challenges rely on innovation if… Read More

Amazon lays off more employees from gaming division as part of strategy shift

Amazon is trimming its gaming-related workforce for the second time this year. The company is shutting down two gaming initiatives,… Read More

Jeff Bezos may leave Seattle ‘a piece of my heart’ but some hope for a slice of his future philanthropy

“Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wrote in a recent Instagram post… Read More

‘I’m looking forward to being Mrs. Bezos’: Vogue profiles Lauren Sanchez’s life with Amazon founder

Lauren Sanchez makes a splash in the December issue of Vogue magazine, sprawling inside the 10,000 year clock, flying a… Read More

Bill Gates-backed startup can store carbon underground for 1,000 years in plant-based bricks

Graphyte, a startup with backing from Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures, announced Monday that it has developed an affordable, long-term… Read More

Seattle wants to charge DoorDash and other gig companies 10 cents per order for new license fee

Companies like DoorDash and Rover may be required to pay a 10-cent per-order fee if a new proposed ordinance makes… Read More

Emily Bender and Ted Chiang on stage

Is artificial intelligence all that intelligent? AI influencers worry about wishful thinking

What do you get when you put two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people on artificial intelligence together in… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 5, 2023

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 5, 2023. Read More

Podcast

‘Embrace this messiness’: Computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li explains her hope for AI and humanity

Fei-Fei Li‘s new book is the story of her journey from China to the U.S., from small business to Big… Read More

Seattle nonprofit wants to help all students love math, using school programs and in-person exhibits

Imagine you’re at a museum entrance, a few years from now. Straight ahead are six doorways — six different ways… Read More

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