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Seattle tech vet Nikesh Parekh unveils Provn to disrupt how companies recruit AI talent

The new Seattle startup wants companies to scrap the traditional resume and replace it with portfolios of real work and challenge-based assessments. Read More

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Seattle’s tech paradox: Amazon’s layoffs collide with the AI boom — or is it a bubble?

Amazon’s latest layoffs collide with an AI boom that’s reshaping Seattle’s tech scene. On this week’s GeekWire Podcast, we unpack Andy Jassy’s “startup” logic, debate whether AI is a true revolution or a bubble, and question the promise of Cascadia high-speed rail. Read More

Filing: Seattle-area vaccine company Inventprise laying off 76 employees

Inventprise, a Redmond, Wash.–based biotechnology company developing vaccines for infectious diseases, is laying off 76 workers, according to a new… Read More

Teen finds a way to simplify lost and found with an app that uses AI in the search process

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Not so trivial: Seattle sports anchor scores three wins on ‘Jeopardy!’ and a ‘lifetime of memories’

Aaron Levine, sports director for FOX 13 in Seattle, said meeting Ken Jennings and being able to call himself a “Jeopardy!” champion was more than he could have dreamed of. Read More

After another major outage, Alaska Airlines taps Accenture to audit technology systems

Alaska Airlines will conduct a full audit of its technology systems, part of a broader push to improve reliability after two major IT outages in recent months. Read More

Tech Moves: iSpot and MoxiWorks name new executives; F5 and Trupanion make board changes

— Julie Van Ullen is now president and chief revenue officer for iSpot, a Bellevue, Wash., company that measures the… Read More

‘Big Beautiful’ tax benefit: Amazon and other tech giants reap the rewards of new law, for now

Amazon’s cash tax payments fell 45% in the third quarter, driven largely by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, even as profits surged 38%. The new U.S. law, championed by President Trump, allows companies to immediately deduct equipment and R&D costs — boosting investment in AI infrastructure while cutting near-term tax bills. Read More

Out of Office: From startups to spices, VC finds ingredients for inspiration in his love of cooking

Pioneer Square Labs investor Vivek Ladsariya discovered his love of cooking growing up in India, where every meal was made from scratch. Now in Seattle, he experiments with global flavors — from pasta to scallion pancakes — often with his newborn daughter by his side in the kitchen. Read More

Survey: Two-thirds of AI-native startups let AI write most of their code

A new survey of early-stage Seattle founders reveals that AI isn’t just helping write code — in some cases, it’s doing most or even all of it. Marcelo Calbucci reports surprising data from 22 AI-native startups, offering a glimpse into how next-generation tech companies are being built in the age of coding agents. Read More

Amazon’s Anthropic investment boosts its quarterly profits by $9.5B

Amazon’s third-quarter profit jumped 38% to $21.2 billion, boosted in part by a $9.5 billion paper gain on its investment in AI startup Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot. Read More

‘It’s culture’: Amazon CEO says massive corporate layoffs were about agility — not AI or cost-cutting

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs — wasn’t triggered by financial strain or artificial intelligence replacing workers, but rather a push to stay nimble. Read More

Zillow posts $676M in Q3 revenue as rentals and mortgage businesses power growth

Revenue was $676 million for the third quarter, up 16% year-over-year and above the company’s previous guidance, driven by the strength of its rentals and mortgage divisions. Read More

Amazon stock soars 11% after topping Q3 estimates with $180B in revenue, $21B in profits

Investors were likely pleased with a re-acceleration in Amazon’s closely watched cloud computing unit, which reported $33 billion in sales, up 20% year-over-year and topping analyst estimates. Read More

The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest

Leaders in the Pacific Northwest are largely bullish on the region’s continued economic success — but one threat to the region’s fiscal progress worries them in particular. Read More

Inside the UW Allen School: Six ‘grand challenges’ shaping the future of computer science

The University of Washington’s Allen School is tackling six “grand challenges” in computer science — from AI and education to health and sustainability. At its annual research showcase, students and faculty presented innovations spanning speech technology, classroom chatbots, and tools for global health. Read More

Slowly but surely, high-speed rail backers believe Cascadia mega-project will become a reality

Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, the plan is moving forward, and Cascadia Innovation Corridor leaders say the next decade could be a defining one. Read More

Fresh off $225M raise, live shopping company Whatnot will boost Seattle headcount in Amazon’s backyard

The Los Angeles-based company, now valued at $11.5 billion (up from $5 billion a year ago), said the Seattle expansion is one of its largest talent investments to date. Read More

Microsoft beats expectations, reports nearly $35B in Q1 capital spending amid Azure outage

Microsoft reported revenue and profits ahead of analysts’ expectations, with Azure revenue growth climbing to 40% as the company continued to grapple with the effects of a widespread cloud outage. Read More

Microsoft’s Azure reports cloud outage, disrupting global customers including Alaska Airlines

An outage on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services Wednesday morning disrupted operations for customers worldwide including Alaska Airlines, Xbox users and 365 subscribers. Read More

Amazon layoffs hit software engineers hardest in Washington

The layoffs of software engineers reflect a striking shift for an industry that has traditionally relied on coders to help build and maintain the backbone of digital platforms. Read More

Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip

Microsoft’s Brad Smith addressed the crowd at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s annual summit, pitching AI’s potential benefits while acknowledging the hype. Read More

Beta’s unique electric airplane flies into Seattle to wow state officials and aviation experts

Vermont-based Beta brought its all-electric ALIA CX300 to an event at Boeing Field. Read More

With earnings on tap, Microsoft touches $4 trillion again after reaching OpenAI deal

With a new OpenAI partnership in hand, Microsoft is going into its earnings report Wednesday afternoon with a resolution to one of the biggest questions about its business. Read More

Worth a mention: Seattle tech vets take on Google Alerts with Alertmouse, a startup to track who’s talking about you

A trio of veteran entrepreneurs have joined forces to create a new Seattle startup — and any mentions of the company… Read More

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Radical’s full-size prototype for a stratospheric drone makes first flight

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Seattle startup TestSprite raises $6.7M to become ‘testing backbone’ for AI-generated code

In the era of AI-generated software, developers still need to make sure their code is clean. That’s where TestSprite wants to help. Read More

Filing: Amazon cuts more than 2,300 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs

Amazon will lay off 2,303 corporate employees in Washington state, primarily in its Seattle and Bellevue offices, according to a filing with the state Employment Security Department that provides a geographic breakdown of the company’s 14,000 global job cuts. Read More

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