Articles from 2026 – Page 10 of 36

What we learned in Cleveland about Seattle’s future: Advice from a Rust Belt city on the rise

What can Seattle learn from Cleveland’s fall and comeback? GeekWire’s John Cook and Seattle angel investor Charles Fitzgerald spent several days in Cleveland, talking with civic, business and political leaders — including the city’s mayor and the governor of Ohio — to find out. Read More

With $54M and a SpaceX playbook, Seattle’s Endurance races to tap deep-sea volcanic power

With $54M and a SpaceX playbook, Seattle’s Endurance races to tap deep-sea volcanic power Read More

Amperity founders take on co-CEO roles, say they’ll carry the ‘soul’ of the startup forward

The Seattle-based customer data startup announced this week that co-founders Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani will serve as co-CEOs, taking over leadership of the company less than two years after Amperity hired former Salesforce executive Tony Alika Owens to lead the business. Read More

Bezos’ AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation, and the CEOs explain what they’re doing

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a roughly $41 billion valuation. The co-CEOs discussed the company’s plans in their first joint interview. Read More

Inside Lime’s Seattle warehouse, where 15,000 bikes and scooters are prepped for a World Cup surge

In a sprawling facility south of downtown in Georgetown — a space that serves as the base of operations for the company’s presence in the Seattle region — Lime is rolling out new devices, doing regular maintenance on its existing fleet, and preparing a suite of services designed to handle many thousands of riders. Read More

Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to lead new $10B AI data center venture

Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to the world of cloud infrastructure as co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched company backed by more than $10 billion. Read More

Amazon claims data centers are 7-times more water-efficient than rivals as Seattle pauses new builds

Amazon is working to rewrite the narrative around data center’s environmental toll as local communities begin shutting the door on rapid AI expansion. Read More

How the SpaceX IPO effect could send the Seattle area’s space industry to a higher orbit

A rising tide lifts all spaceships: Starcloud, Gravitics and other Northwest space ventures look forward to taking advantage of what SpaceX and Starship will have to offer. Read More

‘This cannot continue’: Microsoft Xbox CEO calls for reset amid reports of looming job cuts

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft’s gaming business will end the fiscal year at about a 3% profit margin, saying years of heavy spending without revenue growth “cannot continue” — as Bloomberg and The Verge reported major job cuts coming next month.
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist and LA billionaire reportedly weighing Seahawks bids

The list of potential buyers for the Seattle Seahawks is starting to look like an NFL Pro Bowl roster of billionaires, venture capitalists and global business leaders. Read More

Two-hour learning? AI-powered Alpha School lands in Seattle region

Alpha School, an AI-powered private school chain that has students complete core academics in two hours a day, plans to open a campus in Kirkland this fall and will run summer programs on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Read More

Tumbler tussle: Seattle’s MiiR sues Tesla, alleging copied cup design

In a lawsuit filed May 28 in U.S. District Court in Seattle, MiiR alleges Tesla’s On The Road Tumbler infringes on a design patent covering MiiR’s tumbler lid and copies the overall look of its stainless steel 360 Traveler Tumbler. Read More

Bill Gates goes to Capitol Hill in Epstein case as his ventures feel the effects

Bill Gates appeared voluntarily behind closed doors before House Oversight Committee investigators on Wednesday to answer questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, part of a larger turn in his image that has been rippling through the Seattle-area institutions he built and funds. Read More

Microsoft’s Brad Smith: Graduates jeering AI are ‘telling us what we need to hear’

Microsoft President Brad Smith, in a new blog post and a GeekWire interview, argues that AI will reshape work rather than eliminate it, and says the company’s own future depends on people staying employed. He acknowledges the tension with the tech industry’s job cuts while contending that fields like computer science are changing, not disappearing. Read More

Ex-Icertis executives raise $7.5M for Rivvun, a startup that recovers lost corporate cash

Two former executives from enterprise software giant Icertis have teamed up to launch a new Seattle startup aimed at a multi-trillion-dollar corporate headache. Read More

‘This is Seattle’s position on AI’: City Council votes unanimously to pause big new data centers

The Seattle City Council voted 9-0 to halt applications for data centers larger than 20 megavolt-amperes for one year, while the city studies their impact on the power grid, water supply, utility rates, and economy. The moratorium takes effect as soon as Mayor Katie Wilson signs it. Read More

Show-and-tell panel with Paul Mikesell at podium and Otter Pup spacecraft in foreground

Founders on the frontiers of space and robotics show off their gadgets and tell the stories behind them

Carbon Robotics, Overland AI, Starcloud and Starfish Space get their share of the spotlight at a DeepTech session featuring AI chips, satellites and more. Read More

‘City at your fingertips’: Seattle powers up first digital wayfinding kiosk near tourist hot-spot

The first of dozens of IKE Smart City digital wayfinding kiosks planned for downtown and around Seattle was unveiled on Tuesday at the busy intersection of First Avenue and Pike Street. Read More

After lagging behind, Gov. Ferguson pushes for statewide school cellphone ban in Washington

After moving slowly on cellphone rules at schools, Washington’s leaders are now pushing for all-day bans on their use for K-12 students by fall 2027. Read More

Seattle slips in ranking of best U.S. cities for foreign investment, fueling concerns about business climate

The fourth annual list compiled by British newspaper Financial Times and stock market index Nikkei ranks Seattle 13th among 95 U.S. cities — a drop of 11 places from last year’s second-place position. Read More

Golden Analytics lands $14M seed extension and opens AI platform to public beta

The Bellevue startup founded by former Tableau product chief Francois Ajenstat raised a $14 million seed extension led by Insight Partners, bringing its total seed funding to $21 million, and opened its AI analytics platform to public beta two months after coming out of stealth. Read More

Meet ArchAstro: Ex-Stripe, Microsoft and Meta vets assemble powerhouse team for cross-company AI agents

ArchAstro just emerged from stealth with an artificial intelligence network designed to automate complex, cross-company software deployments and integrations. Read More

Expeditors cuts 230 tech jobs in Seattle region, ending decades-long policy against layoffs

The layoffs hit software developers, quality-assurance testers, project managers, business analysts and others across Expeditors’ offices in downtown Seattle, Bellevue, Lynnwood and Federal Way, according to laid-off employees and others with knowledge of the situation. Read More

Ai2’s Skylight project launches ‘Shippy,’ an AI agent that dives into ocean data

Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI has launched Shippy, a free AI agent built on its Skylight ocean-monitoring platform that answers maritime analysts’ plain-language questions using live vessel-tracking and satellite data. Read More

Hydrogen aviation startup ZeroAvia retreats from Seattle area as it scales back ambitions

Highlighting the immense difficulty of decarbonizing the skies, high-profile hydrogen startup ZeroAvia — backed by Amazon and Bill Gates — has pivoted to a downscaled product line and halted Washington R&D. Read More

FCC gives Amazon Leo more leeway on its satellite deployment schedule

The Federal Communications Commission has freed Amazon from a requirement to deploy the first 1,616 satellites in its Amazon Leo… Read More

This is bold … and italic and more: Microsoft Azure CTO vibe codes a text formatter for LinkedIn posts

Mark Russinovich created a new utility called LinkedIn Post Formatter that allows users to easily get the look they want in text on the professional networking platform. Read More

Zillow co-founder and Seattle tech icon Rich Barton takes up residence in Las Vegas

Rich Barton, who co-founded Zillow and Expedia in the Seattle area, says he’s now officially a Las Vegas resident, citing an empty nest and a new chapter. His move comes amid a heated debate over Washington’s new taxes on wealthy residents. Read More

Remaster specialist Nightdive takes on classic stealth game ‘Thief: The Dark Project’

Vancouver, Wash.-based Nightdive Studios, known for remastering out-of-print PC classics, announced at the PC Gaming Show that its next project is “Thief: The Dark Project,” the influential 1998 stealth game. The remaster is set for release this winter on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and PC. Read More

Xbox Showcase 2026: New CEO’s first broadcast shows off ‘Gears of War,’ ‘Halo,’ ‘Spyro’ and more

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first Xbox Games Showcase centered on upcoming releases and a return to console exclusives. Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution were confirmed as Xbox console exclusives, alongside release dates for Fable and Halo: Campaign Evolved and a new look at Seattle-based Undead Labs’ State of Decay 3. Read More