A former Starbucks cafe in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Starbucks is eliminating 224 more jobs at its Seattle headquarters, according to a new state filing. The coffee giant says the layoffs don’t represent a new round of cutbacks, but rather the lingering effect of restructuring...
Nvidia’s next-generation AI chip, the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module, is set to be used on Starcloud’s future satellites. (Nvidia Illustration) Starcloud says it has raised $250 million in new funding to support the creation of a constellation of data center satellites powered by Nvidia’s...
Mehul Shah. (LinkedIn Photo) — Mehul Shah joined Oracle as group vice president for OCI data and storage services, ending a 14-year run at Amazon and Amazon Web Services. In his last role at AWS, Shah led engineering and product for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Oracle and Db2, and ran the...
Chad Pfarr, principal design director at Anduril, at left shows GeekWire co-founder John Cook the company’s EagleEye augmented reality system at a testing lab at the company’s Bellevue offices. (Photo via Matt Mostad / Anduril) BELLEVUE, Wash. — There is no prominent signage outside Anduril’s...
Anduril recently vacated the the old Foss Shipyard on Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Defense technology giant Anduril Industries has quietly vacated its maritime operations along Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal. The exit, confirmed by the company...
Seattle remains a beacon for tech talent, ranking No. 2 in CBRE’s annual report. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The Seattle region outranked New York, Austin, Boston and other tech hubs, trailing only the Bay Area, in an annual tech talent scorecard from commercial real estate firm CBRE...
(Recurring Dream screenshot) For the first hour or so, Desktop Explorer looks like a nostalgia project. The indie adventure game challenges the player to unravel a mystery by sorting through the files and programs on an old desktop computer. Many of its puzzles are solved through clever usage...
Scott Thurlow is founder of Last Fall Back Washington. (Photo courtesy of Scott Thurlow) Scott Thurlow isn’t a morning person. So much so, he wants to change state law. In 2019, Washington lawmakers voted to put the state on permanent daylight saving time if Congress ever allows it. Thurlow...
A sale price at a Seattle grocery store. A proposed city ordinance would bar grocers from setting different prices for individual shoppers based on their personal data. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Seattle is in the final stages of becoming the first city in the country to ban so-called...
The Lake Washington Ship Canal, the working waterway connecting Lake Union to Puget Sound, where shipyards, fishing boats and houseboats share the shoreline with the region’s new wave of tech startups. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Opinion: A year ago, GeekWire ran a headline that posed an...
Portal Space Systems’ co-founder and CEO, Jeff Thornburg, shows off the Starburst-1 satellite in the company’s Bothell lab. (Portal Space Systems Photo) BOTHELL, Wash. — Portal Space Systems is getting ready to send its first Starburst spacecraft to Florida for a milestone launch, and at the...
The new sorting facility in Renton, Wash., where materials from 50 libraries are routed to 186 delivery chutes. (Photo: Ken Yeung) Washington is home to Mount Rainier, the Space Needle, and the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. It’s also now home to what the King County Library System says...
GeekWire Graphic / Qualtrics logo Three months after closing its $6.75 billion purchase of Press Ganey Forsta, Qualtrics is cutting jobs across the combined company — a reduction that the experience-management technology company says reflects duplication between two organizations that were built...
GeekWire co-founder John Cook talks with Dan Clubbe of The Redmen TV about Jeff Bezos’ investment in Liverpool FC. (The Redmen TV Video) What does Jeff Bezos’ new ownership stake in English Premier League powerhouse Liverpool FC mean for the storied soccer club? I was invited by Dan Clubbe...
The Expedia Group logo at the company’s headquarters campus on the Seattle waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group is parting ways with at least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents in a major reorganization designed to reorient its product and technology groups...
GeekWire Illustration / TikTok Logo TikTok is laying off 75 workers in the Seattle region, focused largely on the company’s e-commerce business, according to a notice filed Tuesday with Washington state. Job titles listed in the notice are almost entirely TikTok Shop and Global E-Commerce...
An artist’s conception shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander on the moon’s surface during the lunar night, with Zeno Power Systems’ radioisotope heater unit highlighted with a blue glow on the left side of the lander’s top deck. (Firefly Aerospace Illustration) A nuclear-powered heater built by Zeno...
An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone flies over a suburban neighborhood in Arizona. (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s drones are finally going national. The company’s autonomous aerial vehicles are set to deliver packages to nearly 500 cities and towns across the country by the end of this year, zipping...
Reroot founder Genevieve Priebe, a fourth-generation member of a Montana farm family. (Photos courtesy of Genevieve Priebe) Genevieve Priebe took a business meeting this summer while bottle-feeding baby goats. A couple of years ago, she was advising executives at some of Seattle’s largest tech...
Members of the BuyWander team, including co-founders Brock Kowalchuk and Jordan Allen, celebrate with the company’s 10,000th customer in Spokane, Wash. in 2025. (BuyWander Photo) BuyWander, the Spokane, Wash.-born startup building an auction marketplace for returned and overstocked retail goods,...
Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers. (Tesla Photo) Amazon is quietly accumulating a stake in Einride, the Swedish electric trucking company that said Tuesday it will deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers. Einride’s SEC filings show Amazon...
The new Highspot by Seismic branding, which replaced the company’s standalone logo Tuesday. (Highspot by Seismic Image) Highspot’s merger with Seismic was completed Tuesday morning, ending the Seattle-based sales software company’s run as an independent business and folding one of the region’s...
The reporting tool in question. (BigStock Photo / hadrian) Amazon is reportedly cutting the spines off old books and scanning the pages at a Las Vegas facility, presumably to train AI models on text that exists almost nowhere else. The company won’t confirm that’s the reason. It gave us the...
Harlan Robins (Photo via Harell Data) Harlan Robins spent years as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, helping build massive datasets to decode the human immune system. But as artificial intelligence exploded across life sciences, he recognized a growing...
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...
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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...