Consul General Prakash Gupta, left of the flagpole, joins elected officials, tech leaders and guests at the flag-raising for India’s 80th Independence Day in downtown Seattle on Aug. 15. (Consulate General of India Photo) Note: Former Microsoft and AWS exec Harini Gokul serves on the Medina...
GitHub was hit by a widespread outage Monday. (GitHub Logo / GeekWire Illustration) GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code-sharing platform with 225 million users, was down for more than three hours Monday morning, disrupting software development work around the world. The issue started at 6:40...
Scenes from Friday’s demonstration at City Center Plaza in Bellevue, which houses OpenAI’s offices. (Images via Troublemakers Community) Five months after OpenAI cut the ribbon on its office in Bellevue, Wash., the building has become the target of a national campaign against AI expansion, which...
Andrew Redd, CEO and founder of Endurance Energy, with company puppy Maple as the startup preps to launch its next prototype system for geothermal energy production. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Next month, Endurance Energy will send Adélie — a 100-kilowatt geothermal generator named for a...
Some of the habits and settings that separate AI power users from everyone else. (Illustration by GPT-5.6 Sol) Your first step toward becoming an AI Power User is to adopt a few hacks, most of which only take a minute to implement. My favorites are below. There’s a lot here, so you can pick...
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 9, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What should Liverpool FC fans expect from Jeff Bezos as a member of the storied English Premier League club’s new minority ownership group? We consult the Amazon leadership principles for the answer. Plus, a tip and an SEC filing lead to a scoop on a former...
(GeekWire File Photo) Amazon indicated for the first time this week that any video broadcast via its livestreaming platform Twitch could be used to train generative AI, unless users take steps to avoid it, which has caused a significant backlash from both audiences and content creators. The...
An undisclosed pharma company signed a 21-year lease for the former Seagen property in Everett. Photo via Breakthrough Properties. A bio-manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., which was built by Seattle biotech giant Seagen but never opened under its Pfizer ownership, is getting a new lease...
Dave Levy. (LinkedIn Photo) — Dave Levy, vice president of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, has left Amazon for a role at Google, according to Nextgov/FCW. An AWS spokesperson confirmed his departure; Google did not respond to a request for comment. Levy, who is based in Arlington, Va., was with AWS...
Reid Miller in a selfie taken along the Seattle waterfront. (Photo courtesy of Reid Miller) Looking for love in Seattle took an unexpected turn when Reid Miller, a 26-year-old Amazon software engineer, decided to bypass dating apps. Instead of swiping on Tinder or Hinge, Miller’s friends...
InduPro’s ARRIS platform is designed to bring two proteins on the surface of a cell together, potentially allowing drugs to target cancer cells more precisely and opening up new ways to treat disease. InduPro, a 4-year-old biotech startup with operations in Seattle and Cambridge, Mass., this...
ScopeSys CEO Padma Kodukula Medical researchers need cutting-edge tools to create new treatments, and Vancouver, BC startup ScopeSys wants to provide them. Founded in 2017 and tracing its roots to research from University of British Columbia biophysicist Sabrina Leslie, ScopeSys uses physics...
Washington AG Nick Brown filed the lawsuit against Kalshi in March. (Photo courtesy of the Washington Attorney General’s Office) A judge in Seattle ordered Kalshi to shut down large parts of its prediction market in Washington state by Sept. 2 — less than three weeks from now — and denied the...
Blue Origin’s ground station network includes a radio antenna in Bermuda. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has successfully tested the first three ground stations for a global communications network that will support the company’s missions in Earth orbit and...
Anthropic will embed an invisible mark in text generated by new Claude models. (GeekWire Illustration) Claude models launched on or after Aug. 2 embed an invisible mark in everything they write. It’s woven into the text itself, so it travels when you copy and paste. You didn’t opt in, you can’t...
Lev CTO Jay Bartot, left, and founder and CEO T.A. McCann. (Lev Photo) Jay Bartot has spent most of his career building startups and advising other founders. Now he’s joining another veteran entrepreneur in a bet that technology can do a lot of that work. Lev, the Pioneer Square Labs spinout...
Jeff Dean, co-founder and CEO of Discovery Loop. (Photo via KDD.org) Jeff Dean has spent decades flexing his brain to solve some of computing’s hardest problems. Turns out the Google legend and UW computer science alum has been pushing his physical limits just as hard. In an exchange on X...
Microsoft introduced Mico last October as “your AI companion.” It’s now exiting Copilot’s core voice experience. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft has spent decades putting characters into its software and then sending them off into retirement. Now joining Bob, Clippy and Cortana in the great recycle...
The merger of Microsoft’s consumer and business Copilot apps lays the groundwork for the upcoming Copilot “Super App” that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has touted to developers and investors. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft is starting the process of combining its consumer and...
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold during the team’s training camp. (Seahawks Photo) If your summer sports head is spinning about the current state of the Seattle Mariners, perhaps it’d be better served focusing on “spin rate,” particularly as it relates to Seahawks quarterback Sam...
The Seattle metro area’s median home-sale price is $809,479, roughly double the national average. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) As prospective buyers face steep borrowing costs and a turbulent tech job market, home sales nationwide have fallen to their lowest point in nearly two years —...
Overland AI develops autonomous ground vehicles and systems used by the U.S. military. (Overland AI Photo) Silicon Valley companies have spent decades coming to Seattle for engineering talent. Now Seattle-based Overland AI is returning the favor. The autonomous ground vehicle maker announced...
Auger co-founders Leigh Anne Clark and Dave Clark at the company’s Bellevue, Wash., office. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) One of the Seattle region’s most notable tech startups is moving its headquarters to Texas. Supply chain technology startup Auger will maintain a major engineering...
Brad Younggren (left), president of Viome Pro, and Naveen Jain, co-founder and CEO of Viome. (Viome Photos) Two Seattle-area health and longevity startups are joining forces through Viome Life Science‘s acquisition of Circulate Health. The two parties would not share specifics but said the deal...
Chart from “Quantum Technology in Washington State.” Washington state has assembled the country’s deepest bench of quantum technology assets — including two major cloud platforms, a national lab and the first U.S. quantum computer factory — but has captured almost none of the federal money now...
A field-level view of the real grass that was installed at Lumen Field ahead of World Cup matches in Seattle this summer. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has made a fortune backing things that grow. Whether that will include real grass in the...
Kevin Carlberg, founder and CEO of Noosphere Labs. (UW Photo) A former Meta AI research director has raised $10.25 million for a Seattle-area startup working on what it calls “human-centered physical intelligence” — AI designed to help people interact with and make sense of the physical world,...
(Amazon Photo) Amazon is scaling up for back-to-school season, expanding its network of Locker package pickup points to more than 750 locations across 500 U.S. colleges and universities. The expanded footprint — part of Amazon’s broader network of more than 25,000 delivery hubs nationwide —...
Neal Katyal, a former U.S. acting solicitor general who leads Milbank’s U.S. Supreme Court practice, is representing Kalshi in state cases across the country. (Milbank Photo) Washington state is emerging as a key battleground in the national fight over whether federal commodities oversight...
(WalletHub Graphic) Thirty-two states are considered better places to live than Washington, according to a new study that ranks a variety of factors impacting livability. WalletHub’s 2026 “Best States to Live In” list puts Washington at No. 33 with an overall score of 49.70 based on five key...
Wisk completed the first flight of its Generation 6 autonomous, all-electric eVTOL last year. Photo via Wisk Archer Aviation is acquiring three Boeing subsidiaries focused on autonomous aircraft, airspace management and unmanned systems, a deal that will significantly expand the electric...
Hannah McClellan Richards. (LinkedIn Photo) — Hannah McClellan Richards has left Amazon after more than 15 years to become chief operating officer of micromobility company Lime. “Ensuring hundreds of thousands of light electric vehicles are available, fully charged, when and where riders need...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, trains with UFC fighter Merab Dvalishvili aboard a barge on Lake Tahoe. (Image via Instagram) Man vs. machine might be the rallying cry of our future with AI, but for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the fight is here now — in more ways than one. Zuckerberg, who...
Dr. Christopher Murray, IHME’s director, is principal investigator on the grant. He started the Global Burden of Disease study in the early 1990s. (IHME Photo) The Gates Foundation broke its own record at the University of Washington with the largest charitable gift in university history: $540.2...