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Stephanie Berner. (LinkedIn Photo) — Smartsheet’s leadership shakeup continues with the appointment of Stephanie Berner as its new chief customer officer. Berner comes to the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software giant from Atlassian,...

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Cow, a breakout star in the new “Mario Kart World” video game, wears a nose ring that is viewed as a painful accessory by the animal rights group PETA. (Screenshot via Nintendo on YouTube) The moos turned to boos over the depiction of a...

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Kevin Leneway. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The pace of innovation in AI is unprecedented, and it’s difficult to keep up with the latest tools, models, and workflows. That’s why we’re excited to spotlight Seattle’s leading...

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A new automated gate platform from Outpost is designed to capture more reliable data as trucks enter and exit terminals and shipping sites. (Outpost Photo) Outpost, the Austin-based operator of truck terminals across the U.S., announced...

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The Allen Institute for AI in Seattle has been tapped by the National Science Foundation to lead a major new initiative to create AI models for scientific research. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Is this the Allen Institute for AI’s...

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Oracle’s Cloud Experience Center in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Oracle is laying off 161 workers in Seattle, according to a filing with the Washington state Employment Security Department. The cloud and...

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Newly named Funko CEO Josh Simon. (Funko Photo) Everett, Wash.-based Funko, makers of pop culture collectibles, named Josh Simon as the company’s new CEO. The move comes on the heels of rough second-quarter earnings in which the company...

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Panelists at Seattle Worldcon 2025 discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on societal structures. From left: Ramez Naam, computer scientist and author; graphic novelist Moriko Handford; Kaylea Champion, professor of computer science...

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Fans pack the Moda Center in Portland during a Trail Blazers home game. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) The owner of the Carolina Hurricanes NHL team reached an agreement to buy the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team from the estate of...

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Amazon.com screenshot Amazon is now offering shoppers in more than 1,000 cities free, same-day delivery of groceries — including perishable goods such as milk, seafood, frozen items and fresh produce. The company plans to expand the...

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Meteor co-founders and Farhan Khan, left, and Pranav Madhukar during a Y Combinator demonstration. (Photo courtesy of Meteor) Two computer science students on leave from the University of Washington are building what they call the “world’s...

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The F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Security and application delivery giant F5 is laying off 106 employees at the company’s offices in Seattle and Liberty Lake, Wash., according to a filing with the...

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From left: Justin Vandehey, Bobby Napiltonia, and Josh Carter. (Founder First Fund Photo) Founder First Fund, a new VC firm based in Portland, Ore., is raising its inaugural fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage startups in a variety of...

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(GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) T-Mobile laid off an undisclosed amount of employees within its IT organization, the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier confirmed to GeekWire. “To put T-Mobile in the best position to continue...

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Automated License Plate Readers will be placed in strategic areas across Redmond, Wash. (Redmond PD Photo) The Redmond Police Dept. is deploying Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) across the city as a means to respond more quickly to...

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Thousands of science fiction and fantasy fans will be going back to the future this week when Seattle plays host to Worldcon, the world’s premier sci-fi convention, for the first time since the Space Needle opened its doors. “The Pacific...

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Jamie Nacht, co-founder and CEO of Havium. (LinkedIn Photo) Havium, a Seattle startup that helps people invest in and own single-family rental properties, raised $550,000 in a recent funding round as it continues to evolve its offerings....

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Jiafei Duan, Ai2 researcher, shows MolmoAct controlling a robotic arm. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The Allen Institute for AI released a new AI robotics system that uses novel approaches to help robots navigate messy real-world...

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GoodShip co-founders Ryan Soskin (left) and David Tsai. (GoodShip Photo) GoodShip, a software startup that helps companies manage shipping logistics data, raised $25 million and announced plans for a new office in Bellevue, Wash. Founded...

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NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg faces the TV cameras at L3Harris’ Aerojet Rocketdyne facility in Redmond, Wash. An R-4D-11 thruster and a decontamination oven are off to his left. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — The first crewed...

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Plutus co-founders Shashank Chiranewala (left) and Mitren Chinoy. (Plutus Photo) A new startup founded earlier this year is building a marketplace for high-performance model portfolios, aiming to give everyday investors access to...

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. (GitHub Photo) Microsoft will bring GitHub into its CoreAI division with the announcement this morning that GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will be stepping down as the leader of the widely used software development...

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Tom Gurski, founder and CEO of Blue Dot Motorworks, stands next to the Jeep Cherokee he converted to a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle using his startup’s technology. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) No matter how Tom Gurski crunched the...

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(Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash) Learning to code and working hard hasn’t been quite enough to land the coveted tech jobs and six-figure starting salaries that computer science graduates were promised, according to a new report in The...

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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. 3, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our...

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Inside Assurance IQ’s former headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) The Federal Trade Commission reached a $100 million settlement with Assurance IQ, the now-defunct Seattle-area insurance technology startup acquired...

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Computer science professor Ed Lazowska recently retired from his longtime University of Washington role. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Don’t worry, we haven’t seen the last of Ed Lazowska. After nearly a half-century in computer science...

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took Elon Musk’s barb in stride. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The release of GPT-5 on Thursday gave Microsoft an opportunity to spotlight its exclusive cloud API partnership with OpenAI — and Elon Musk...

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From top left, clockwise: Audiori CEO Remya Nair Stephen; Elementrailer CEO Frank Lin; Fluidworks CEO Jose Kuttan; and Pivotal Build CEO Jonathan Madamba. From clean tech to voice tech, we’re spotlighting another batch of early stage...

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Loopr founder Priyansha Bagari. (Loopr Photo) Loopr, a Seattle-based startup that sells computer vision quality control software to manufacturing firms, raised a new round of cash. A regulatory filing shows that the company raised $5.4...

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(GeekWire File Photo) Expedia Group topped estimates for its second quarter earnings with $3.8 billion in revenue, up 6% year-over-year, and adjusted net income of $546 million. Shares were up more than 15% in after-hours trading. “Our...

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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer founded USAFacts in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) USAFacts, the nonpartisan non-profit organization led by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, rarely weighs in on political controversies. But...

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(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A drizzly, cool, grey morning in August feels like the perfect time to recognize that Seattle is not for everyone. Announcing that your tech startup is packing up for the Bay Area might be another way...

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Anand Subbaraman, left, is the new Icertis CEO, succeeding Samir Bodas, who co-founded the company. (Icertis Photos) Icertis has named Anand Subbaraman as CEO, succeeding Samir Bodas, who will become executive chairman of the Bellevue,...

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Before each question, Wild Zebra’s AI tutor shows an AI-generated image, such as the one above, that matches the topic and interest. The idea is to spark their imagination, build context, and make students excited to dive in. (Wild Zebra...

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(Zillow Image) Zillow beat estimates for its second quarter with $655 million in revenue, up 15% year-over-year. GAAP net income was $2 million, up from a $17 million loss in the year-ago period. Shares were down as much as 6% in...

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A Bill Gates business card obtained on Nov. 6, 1980, during a visit to the Microsoft co-founder’s Bellevue, Wash., office. (Lelands Photo) Long before the days of tapping your smartphone against someone else’s to share contact information,...

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Nectar Social co-founders and sisters Misbah Uraizee (left) and Farah Uraizee. (Nectar Social Photo) Misbah Uraizee and Farah Uraizee want to win. And they believe their best shot at success lies in Silicon Valley, not Seattle....

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University of Washington graduate student Jillian Fisher presenting at the Association for Computational Linguistics in Vienna, Austria, on July 28. (UW Photo) If you’ve faced the frustrating challenge of trying to pull a friend or family...

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SCALA.AI co-founder and CEO Ardie Sameti (left) and co-founder/executive chairman Raj Singh. Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton are backing a stealthy new Seattle-area startup called SCALA.AI that’s positioning itself at the...

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An artist’s conception shows the Blue Ring space platform in orbit. (Blue Origin Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among six companies that will be producing studies for NASA looking at low-cost ways to use orbital...

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Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader at the company’s ENGAGE customer conference in September 2023. (Smartsheet Photo) After leading Smartsheet for nearly two decades, Mark Mader is leaving the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software giant. The...

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OLMo leader Hanna Hajishirzi of Ai2 and the University of Washington speaks during a 2023 event at the UW’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI’s new models may be...

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Avail founder Dan Marsh. (LinkedIn Photo) Seattle-based tech consulting firm Avail Partners has been acquired by Upstack, a New York City-based IT advisory platform that helps companies purchase products from tech vendors. Avail focuses...

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An artist’s conception shows Astrolab’s FLIP rover on the moon. Interlune plans to put a helium-hunting multispectral camera on the rover. (Astrolab Illustration) Seattle-based Interlune says it’s struck a deal with California-based...

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Image via Amazon OpenAI released its first open-weight AI models in more than five years, and Amazon quickly said they will be available on its Bedrock and SageMaker platforms — the first time the cloud giant has offered products from the...

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In a 2017 image, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is framed by the carbon-composite cylinder that became the hull of the ill-fated Titan submersible. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) In a report issued today, the U.S. Coast Guard panel...

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Microsoft says its new system could eventually detect new types of malware directly in computer memory, helping stop threats faster and on a larger scale. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft says it has created an advanced AI...

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Microsoft has laid off more than 15,000 people globally since May. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft laid off another 40 employees in Washington, bringing the total number of job cuts in its home state to 3,160 since May,...

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View of Seattle’s downtown and Harbor Island, the city’s maritime shipping hub, from the Smith Tower. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) With a mix of hand-wringing and can-do enthusiasm, Seattle City Council members this afternoon...