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Articles from 2026

Early Amazon engineer and serial founders raise $15M to keep AI agents in the loop

As AI agents move from writing code to joining the team, Seattle-based SageOx has raised $15 million to ensure they don’t get left out of the conversation. Read More

PSL’s T.A. McCann is running a startup again, as the CEO of Lev — an ‘AI co-founder’ for startups

After eight years as managing director at Pioneer Square Labs, serial entrepreneur T.A. McCann is becoming CEO of Lev, an AI-powered co-founder platform for early-stage founders. PSL is spinning out Lev as a standalone company with McCann at the helm. Read More

Microsoft’s new Xbox chief nixes Gaming Copilot for mobile and console, shakes up leadership

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is winding down Gaming Copilot on mobile and canceling its console launch, barely a year after Microsoft debuted the AI feature. She’s also overhauling the gaming unit’s leadership, including new execs from her previous group, CoreAI. Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon VP is now Chewy CTO; Smartsheet names CFO; Microsoft exec joins NetApp

Amazon VP Yunyan Wang is now Chewy’s CTO; Smartsheet names new CFO; and a longtime Microsoft exec joins NetApp’s C-suite, among other tech moves. Read More

Seattle’s CopilotKit raises $27M, as some of the biggest names in tech adopt its AI agent protocol

CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in Techstars Seattle, raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software apps. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have adopted the company’s open AG-UI protocol. Read More

Moment Energy lands $40M to scale EV battery repurposing at planned Texas gigafactory

With a fresh $40 million investment and plans for a massive Texas gigafactory, Moment Energy is turning the end-of-life for EV batteries into a 30-year infrastructure play. Read More

Microsoft’s new research finds an AI ‘paradox’ holding companies back

Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index finds that the biggest barrier to AI at work isn’t the technology or the workers — it’s the organizations around them. Only 13% of AI users say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in their jobs. Read More

Data centers at sea: Panthalassa nets $140M led by Peter Thiel for wave-powered AI

By combining massive floating power generators with onsite AI hardware, Panthalassa turns the ocean into a self-sustaining computing powerhouse — all without needing a single mile of underwater power cables. Read More

Seattle schools’ new cellphone rules are in effect — what it means for different kids, and why now

For years, the rules around cellphones in Seattle Public Schools depended largely on which school — or even which classroom — a student walked into. That ended today. Read More

Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge

A small team inside Microsoft led by Corporate Vice President Omar Shahine is building “Project Lobster,” an OpenClaw-based agent designed to work around the clock on behalf of knowledge workers within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The project already has more than 3,000 daily users inside the company. Read More

Building belonging: How GeekWire’s STEM Educator of the Year uses Legos to bridge the tech gap

GeekWire’s STEM Educator of the Year, Fidel Ferrer, is using Project LEDO and Lego robotics to provide a safety net and sense of belonging for students of color in Portland. Read More

Engineers work on hardware in Interlune's Regolith Lab

Interlune wins $6.9M NASA contract to create system to extract helium-3 and hydrogen from moon dirt

Seattle-based startup will build and test payload that advances its plan to bring back lunar helium-3 for use in quantum computers. Read More

Amazon turns its logistics empire into a new business, taking on UPS and FedEx in freight and shipping

Amazon launched Amazon Supply Chain Services, bundling freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping into a single offering for any business. Shares of UPS dropped nearly 10% and FedEx fell more than 9%. Read More

Etzioni on AI: If at first you don’t succeed, prompt, prompt again

The people who get the most out of AI aren’t the ones with the best prompt templates. They’re the ones who treat the model as a powerful tool for advancing their work. Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 26, 2026

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 26, 2026. Read More

Podcast

Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a Seattle VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal

The GeekWire Podcast goes inside the Elon Musk trial against OpenAI and Microsoft, breaks down blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Amazon, and tells the story of a tiny Seattle VC firm that hustled its way into a billion-dollar AI deal. Read More

Seattle mayor’s ‘bye’ to millionaires who leave state over taxes is no laughing matter to some in tech

The debate over progressive taxation in Washington state has been building for months, with the tech community largely alarmed by what it sees as a hostility toward business in the region. Read More

Calculated joy: Why GeekWire’s STEM Educator of the Year built a museum to fix math trauma

From giant Etch A Sketches to living fractal trees, the Seattle Universal Math Museum is on a mission to replace math trauma with joyful exploration. Read More

Microsoft and Amazon join Pentagon’s push to build AI-first military with classified network deals

The agreements — which also include OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX and the startup Reflection — will give those firms’ AI systems access to the military’s most classified network environments. Read More

‘Exclusion compounds’: Women in tech push to shape AI before it’s too late

Speakers at the Women in Tech Regatta in Seattle said AI is at risk of repeating longstanding patterns of exclusion, from biased hiring tools to gaps in who’s shaping AI strategy. Read More

Tired of talk that goes nowhere? This Seattle startup is using AI to turn civic debate into action

Convexus is a mother-daughter led civic technology platform designed to help local governments, nonprofits, and community groups move past fragmented debate and toward coordinated action. Read More

Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook, Seahawks owners? Tech moguls’ reported interest quickly spiked

Front Office Sports reported Thursday that Zuckerberg and Cook are among at least four interested parties considering making offers for the team. They are the first serious names to emerge in a sale that could fetch upwards of $7 billion. Read More

Geeks Give Back: AI House and UW’s Center for an Informed Public to be honored at GeekWire Awards

This year’s Geeks Give Back honorees are advancing AI innovation and providing education and research in our rapidly evolving media landscape. Read More

Microsoft puts a price on its voluntary retirement program

Microsoft says its voluntary retirement program will result in a $900 million charge in the current quarter. The company, which is spending record sums on AI infrastructure, said headcount dropped year over year and will decline again in fiscal 2027. Read More

AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off

Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon’s results past Wall Street’s expectations and validating, at least for now, the company’s controversial $200 billion bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read More

Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate

Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. Read More

Opinion: AI is not a product — it’s an environment

Bill Hilf, a veteran systems architect and conservationist, argues that we must prioritize system diversity and “recovery over performance” to prevent a chain reaction of failures that could collapse our critical infrastructure. Read More

Tech Moves: Former Microsoft VP to lead Inteum; Veeam, mpathic add execs; past Tune CEO’s new role

Angus Norton, a former exec from Microsoft and Amazon, is CEO of IP transfer company Inteum, while Veeam and mpathic name two new leaders and Peter Hamilton shares details on his tech move. Read More

How a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startup

Flying Fish Partners, a Seattle-based VC firm with less than $250 million under management, broke into the $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from AlphaGo creator David Silver. Here’s how they got in. Read More

Zap Energy’s nuclear double play: Fusion startup adds traditional fission to its lineup, in industry first

Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the new dual-purpose effort. Read More

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