Articles from 2026

Humanly raises $25M to put AI to work for job seekers, not just the companies hiring them

The company, which has built AI-powered interviewing tools for employers, is using its new funding to reposition itself, as CEO Prem Kumar says, to not just give recruiters tools to find candidates, but deliver pre-vetted, ready-to-hire job seekers on demand. Read More

Opinion: Everyone is asking AI better questions — nobody is asking themselves better ones

Alonda Williams is the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound. Last year, a peer CEO told me… Read More

Golf star Bryson DeChambeau leads acquisition of Seattle-area startup Sportsbox AI

Bryson DeChambeau, the two-time U.S. Open champion, is leading a group of investors in the acquisition of Bellevue-based Sportsbox AI, the startup that uses AI and 3D motion capture to analyze golf swings from smartphone video. Read More

Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated developers and data scientists for nearly two decades. Read More

Wide-angle view of Earthset during Artemis 2 lunar flyby

Earthset and eclipse, oh my! NASA releases magnificent images from Artemis mission’s moon flyby

High-resolution views of Earth, the moon and a solar eclipse rekindle the spirit of round-the-moon missions from decades ago. Read More

From Pokémon GO to physical AI: Niantic Spatial unveils its global 3D mapping platform

Niantic Spatial, the company spun out of Pokémon GO maker Niantic, is launching a revamped version of its Scaniverse platform and a new global visual positioning system, in its biggest release since becoming an independent company last year. Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft leader jumps to Anthropic; Tagboard gets new CEO; Expedia names tech VP

— Longtime Microsoft leader Eric Boyd announced today that he has joined Anthropic to lead its infrastructure team. “I’ve been… Read More

Former Tableau product chief launches Golden Analytics, using AI to challenge the BI old guard

Francois Ajenstat, who spent 13 years at Tableau including more than seven as chief product officer, is launching Golden Analytics with $7M in seed funding to build an AI-native business intelligence platform. Read More

Amazon sued by YouTubers for allegedly scraping their content to train AI video tool

High-profile creators, including the owners of the H3 Podcast, are suing Amazon for allegedly deploying a sophisticated “extraction” scheme to use their copyrighted videos to train its Nova Reel AI. Read More

GeekWire Awards: CEO of the Year finalists innovating across fintech, climate, real estate and more

The CEO of the Year finalists are: Tony Huang of Possible Finance, Aina Abiodun of VertueLab, Shelia Stafford of TeamSense, Karen Huh of Zucca, and Luis Poggi of HouseWhisper AI. Read More

Seattle startup Glacis brings longtime Microsoft leader aboard to target AI’s biggest blind spot

Glacis, a Seattle startup building tamper-proof records of AI behavior, has hired longtime Microsoft Azure exec Rohit Tatachar as co-founder and CTO and is launching new open-source tools for monitoring and controlling AI agents. Read More

Illustration: Starfish Space Otter space vehicle in orbit with Earth's full disk in background

Starfish Space raises $110M to scale up its satellite servicing missions

Fresh funding will boost Seattle-area company as it gets set for its first operational space mission. Read More

Earthset picture from Artemis 2: Crescent Earth dips beneath lunar horizon

‘Moon joy!’ Artemis 2’s crew sets a distance record, documents lunar far side and heads back toward Earth

The first humans to travel around the moon in more than 50 years experience hours of scientific wonder — and moments of deep emotion. Read More

Plot twist in downtown Seattle: Barnes & Noble bookstore opening soon in Amazon’s backyard

The store will be a short walk from Amazon’s HQ campus. The tech giant got its start as an online bookseller, and on its way to disrupting multiple retail verticals, the company’s e-commerce dominance took a toll on physical bookstores, including Barnes & Noble. Read More

Seattle entrepreneur Robbie Cape’s lengthy job search takes unexpected turn with launch of new startup

“We’re shaping the vision, building the team, defining the culture. The slate is clean. The sky is open. And we are having an absolute blast,” Cape wrote on LinkedIn. Read More

Butter or sand in the gears? The question every founder must ask before choosing SF or Seattle

Choosing where to build a startup is as important as choosing what to build, and there are big differences between Seattle and the Bay Area, said Yifan Zhang, AI2 Incubator co-managing director addressing founders at the Seattle AI Startup Summit. Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft names corporate VP; Amazon exec departs for Google; Zoom names CPO

Microsoft names a corporate VP for Identity & Network Access, while a CVP of product management departed for Zoom. Amazon loses an exec to Google Cloud. Read More

Data visualization all-stars unveil Ridge AI with $2.6M to fix the analytics problem for SaaS apps

Data visualization veterans Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer are launching Ridge AI from stealth with $2.6M from Madrona and high-profile angels, aiming to help SaaS companies present interactive analytics to their customers. Read More

New leash on life: Why this Tableau vet walked away from tech to roll with the dogs

Eric Howard is the Onewheel-riding founder and chief dog runner at Dog Tired, a dog-exercising service outside of Seattle that operates at a different speed. In five years he’s taken about 5,000 dog runs across 17,000 miles. Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 29, 2026

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of March 29, 2026. Read More

Amazon meets FedEx Office: A seamless return and one very dumb question about stamps

Amazon and FedEx severed their logistics relationship in 2019. Now they’re patching things up, and GeekWire’s Todd Bishop put the new returns partnership to the test. Read More

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Rec Room shutdown, robot umps, torpedo bats, FedEx meets Amazon, and OpenAI’s odd media buy

Rec Room’s shutdown is one of the biggest Seattle startup implosions in recent memory — and it raises questions about whether the AI boom should be paying attention to what happened with VR. Plus, MLB’s new robot ump system is already creating drama, and we road-test Amazon’s new FedEx Office returns deal. Read More