Articles by Todd Bishop

Todd Bishop is GeekWire's editor and co-founder, a longtime business and technology journalist who covers beats including Microsoft, Amazon, AI, and startups, in addition to hosting GeekWire's weekly podcast. A native of Orland, Calif., he has worked as a reporter for publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Puget Sound Business Journal and the Seattle P-I.

Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers

‘Digit’ maker Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B deal — here’s what the filings say about its finances
Two pizzas and a prototype: How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions
Expeditors cuts 230 tech jobs in Seattle region, ending decades-long policy against layoffs

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Podcast

Zuckerberg’s yacht, Meta’s layoffs, a robot pizza flameout, and a reality check on AI expenses

On this week’s GeekWire Podcast: Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses nearly 1,400 local layoffs, robot pizza startup Picnic shuts down and sells its assets to a mystery buyer, and companies grapple with the rising cost of corporate AI. Read More

Still ringing a bell: F5 marks its 30th year in business

Seattle-based F5 marked 30 years in business Friday by ringing the Nasdaq opening bell. The application-delivery and security company has grown to $3.1 billion in annual revenue and outlived nearly all the marquee customers and the three investment banks listed in its 1999 IPO prospectus. Read More

Possible Finance rebounds, rebuilds, and reaches profitability as founders reunite for a new chapter

Seattle fintech Possible Finance hit a $125 million revenue run rate and its first annual profit after a pandemic-era stretch of flat growth and layoffs. The company is expanding its Seattle office and reuniting its founding team. Read More

Podcast

How ‘Lean Startup’ author Eric Ries redefines profit in his new book

“Lean Startup” author Eric Ries discusses his new book “Incorruptible” and his new definition of profit on this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded behind the scenes at Seattle Flow Startup Day. Read More

Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal

Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon’s custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More

Amazon offers its AI shopping tech to outside retailers in new phase of agentic commerce race

AWS is releasing the Agentic Shopping Assistant, a tool that lets retailers build AI shopping experiences using the same technology behind Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, which drove nearly $12 billion in incremental sales last year. Read More

Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs

The Meta CEO’s 387-foot Launchpad passed through the Ballard Locks toward Lake Union on Tuesday, the same day the company disclosed nearly 1,400 layoffs in Washington state. Read More

Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp

A new state filing shows Meta is eliminating nearly 1,400 positions across its Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond offices, about 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring impacting 8,000 jobs. Read More

New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions

The Code.org founder, who earlier this year handed off the CEO role at the nonprofit, announced this weekend that he is the new CEO of Payam Music, a Bothell, Wash.-based piano school that he plans to expand nationally with backing from a prominent group of investors. Read More

Podcast

SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink’s impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer

SpaceX’s IPO filing includes new details about the Starlink satellite factory in Redmond. Jeff Bezos talks wealth, inequality, and AI on CNBC. And John turns to ChatGPT and Gemini when FIFA’s ticketing support falls short. Read More

A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year

Yusuf Mehdi, one of Microsoft’s best-known and longest-serving business leaders, whose tenure has spanned 35 years from Windows 3.1 to… Read More

CEO of Paul Allen’s $3.1B science and tech fund steps down less than a year after launch

Dr. Lynda Stuart is departing as the first CEO of the Fund for Science and Technology, the foundation created under late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s instructions. The change comes amid broader shifts in the Allen philanthropic ecosystem, including the departures of top AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI. Read More

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 filing that its Redmond, Wash., facility produces approximately 70 Starlink satellites per week, putting hard production numbers on the operation for the first time. The filing also reveals Starlink’s financials and names several Pacific Northwest companies as competitors. Read More

AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains why vision comes first

Brian Evergreen, a former Microsoft AI leader and author of Autonomous Transformation, argues that most companies are approaching AI backward — starting with the technology instead of a vision for what they want to create. In a live GeekWire Podcast recording, he explains how leaders can adjust their approach. Read More

At Tech Alliance annual luncheon, a stark analysis and a call to action

A McKinsey analysis presented at the Technology Alliance’s State of Technology luncheon warns that Washington’s nation-leading economic growth is projected to slow to the national average, driven by negative domestic migration, rising costs, and heavy reliance on a handful of giant employers. Read More

Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’

In a CNBC interview, Jeff Bezos offered the most detailed public description yet of Project Prometheus, calling the secretive startup an “artificial general engineer” building next-generation design tools for physical objects. Read More

S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups

Friends and colleagues remembered S. “Soma” Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft developer leader and Madrona managing director, as a generous mentor to developers and founders, and a fixture of Seattle’s tech community. Read More

Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption

Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin, founder Rich Barton, chairman Barry Diller, and former CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tell the story of Expedia’s 30-year evolution from a small project inside Microsoft to a global travel conglomerate navigating the age of AI agents. Read More

StitcherAI emerges from stealth with $3M and a different take on the AI spending problem

StitcherAI, founded by a pair of Seattle enterprise tech veterans, launched Tuesday with $3 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that pushes cost data into the tools where spending decisions are made, rather than relying on traditional dashboards. Read More

Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defendants in landmark AI case

A jury ruled unanimously Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, finding the defendants not liable on all claims after less than two hours of deliberation. Read More

AWS veteran Matt Wood returns to cloud giant in new role: chief AI and technology officer

Matt Wood, who spent more than 14 years helping to lead Amazon Web Services’ artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives… Read More

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What we learned about Microsoft in the OpenAI trial, and is Seattle squandering its edge?

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: As the Musk v. OpenAI trial heads to the jury, we dig into what… Read More

‘Lean Startup’ author reveals one regret about his bestselling book — and how his new one fixes it

“Lean Startup” author Eric Ries previewed his new book “Incorruptible” at Seattle Flow Startup Day, challenging founders to rethink how they define profit and structure their companies. Read More

Microsoft adds more former Ai2 researchers, bolstering its Superintelligence team

At least 10 former Allen Institute for AI staffers and researchers have joined Microsoft’s Superintelligence team, including the core of the institute’s OLMo open-source model effort. The departures come amid a shift in Ai2’s funding toward applied uses of AI. Read More

Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

Microsoft’s new vulnerability-scanning system, codenamed MDASH, scored 88.45% on the CyberGym benchmark, surpassing single-model systems from Anthropic and OpenAI by using more than 100 specialized AI agents across multiple models. Read More

Microsoft’s CTO testifies about email at the heart of Elon Musk’s allegations against the tech giant

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott publicly addressed for the first time a 2018 email that Musk’s lawyers have cited as evidence Microsoft knew OpenAI was abandoning its nonprofit mission. A confidential board memo filed in the case reveals how Microsoft’s fear of falling behind Google drove the investment. Read More

Top Stories from Todd Bishop

Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers

Latest from Todd Bishop

Zuckerberg’s yacht, Meta’s layoffs, a robot pizza flameout, and a reality check on AI expenses

Still ringing a bell: F5 marks its 30th year in business

Possible Finance rebounds, rebuilds, and reaches profitability as founders reunite for a new chapter

How ‘Lean Startup’ author Eric Ries redefines profit in his new book

Amazon offers its AI shopping tech to outside retailers in new phase of agentic commerce race

Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs

Meta cuts nearly 1,400 jobs in Seattle area, 20% of local workforce, in sweeping AI revamp

New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions

SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink’s impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer

A ‘final season’ at Microsoft for Yusuf Mehdi: Longtime exec plans to leave after one last year

CEO of Paul Allen’s $3.1B science and tech fund steps down less than a year after launch

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains why vision comes first

At Tech Alliance annual luncheon, a stark analysis and a call to action

Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’

S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups

Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption

Jury finds Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, clearing defendants in landmark AI case

AWS veteran Matt Wood returns to cloud giant in new role: chief AI and technology officer

What we learned about Microsoft in the OpenAI trial, and is Seattle squandering its edge?

‘Lean Startup’ author reveals one regret about his bestselling book — and how his new one fixes it

Microsoft adds more former Ai2 researchers, bolstering its Superintelligence team

Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

Microsoft’s CTO testifies about email at the heart of Elon Musk’s allegations against the tech giant

Amazon unifies Alexa+ and Rufus as AI rivals move into online shopping

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s stake in Helion Energy draws scrutiny in Musk trial and on Capitol Hill

AWS targets AI slop with new spec check in Kiro coding tool, amid scrutiny of agent reliability

‘Strong, strong no’: New filing reveals who Microsoft favored — and opposed — for OpenAI’s board