Technology reporter Caroline O’Donovan, covered Amazon at the Post for almost four years and previously wrote an award-winning investigation at BuzzFeed into Amazon’s delivery network. Read More
Amazon reports Q4 earnings Thursday, capping a tech earnings season dominated by a single question: whether the industry’s AI spending binge will ultimately be worth it. Here’s what to watch. Read More
A former Microsoft executive is returning to the company from Google to lead its security initiatives, replacing the former Amazon exec who is exiting the role to focus on engineering quality as an individual contributor at the Redmond company. Read More
Founder and CEO Monica Plath has spent the last two years overhauling Littlebird’s technical DNA and its premise around screen-free technology suitable for schools. Read More
Amazon is making Alexa+, its upgraded AI assistant, free for all U.S. Prime members starting today, including app and web-based chatbots. But with AI habits already ingrained around ChatGPT and other rivals, can Alexa+ catch up? Read More
Washington leaders unveiled their so-called “millionaires tax” — a proposed 9.9% tax on personal income in excess of $1 million. Business leaders are worried about additional financial burdens in a shaky economy while supporters stress the growing affordability crisis. Read More
Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay departs Salesforce after 19 years, hinting at a “new challenge” ahead. His exit follows other recent leadership departures at the company. Also, Microsoft names four new EVPs. And Avanade taps a new CEO. Read More
The manager of the Lake Theater & Cafe in Lake Oswego, Ore., said it was “weird” that the film even exists and “funny” to screen it at the anti-establishment theater. Read More
You’ve been given a gift — the chance to reset, to choose differently, to not just optimize for salary and title but for meaning and energy and the kind of life you actually want to live. Read More
The startup — spun out of the University of Washington in 2022 — said the funding will enable it to meet demand for ULTRA, its autonomous ground vehicle. Read More
Seattle startup Avalanche Energy will use the funding to support its push toward fusion power and to help launch a commercial-scale testing facility for fusion technologies. Read More
Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology will keep working at third-party locations after the company discontinues Amazon One palm scanning in June, the company confirmed Monday. Customers will tap a card or phone instead. Read More
Forgive us if visions of deep Super Bowl passes have given way to talk of deep Seattle-area pockets as reports keep emerging about a potential sale of the team. Read More
Software development roles account for the largest share of the layoffs, with engineering management, program management, and technical product roles also hit hard. Read More
T-Mobile is laying off 393 employees spanning more than 200 different job titles, from analysts, engineers and technicians to directors and managers. Read More
Microsoft beat its own forecast. Revenue rose 17%. Cloud crossed $50 billion. So why did the stock fall 10%, erasing $357 billion in market value? We dig into the numbers behind the company’s worst post-earnings drop in 13 years. Read More
In bullish regulatory filing, SpaceX says huge satellite constellation would be a first step toward ‘ensuring humanity’s multiplanetary future amongst the stars.’ Read More
When Gino Palileo moved to Seattle from the Philippines in 2015, his first job in his new city was at an ice cream shop at the waterfront ferry terminal. Watching the green and white ferries crisscross Elliott Bay was the beginning of a lasting appreciation for vessels. Read More
In a statement Friday, the Kent, Wash.-based company said the move as aligning with U.S. government goals to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a long-term human presence there. Read More
Samir Bodas, co-founder of contract management software company Icertis, passed this week following a battle with cancer. He was 61. Friends and colleagues remember a leader who put culture and values at the center of one of the region’s most successful startups. Read More
The Seattle-based real estate company said the cuts — which represent about 2% of Zillow’s overall headcount — were part of the annual review process. Read More
Seattle startup Electric Era landed $4.28 million in National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding to install five charging stations in Washington. Read More
An Amazon Leo VP announced his retirement, a former partner from Madrona is taking a “builder” role at Anthropic, and other Pacific Northwest personnel changes. Read More
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