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A Microsoft Azure data center. (Microsoft Photo) The race to regulate artificial intelligence infrastructure has arrived at a crossroads in Washington state. After weeks on the sidelines, Microsoft publicly declared its opposition to a...

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Carbon Robotics founder and CEO Paul Mikesell with the company’s LaserWeeder G2. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Carbon Robotics, the Seattle startup that builds robots used by farmers to eliminate weeds without the use of chemicals, got another...

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Anthropic acquired Seattle startup Vercept on Wednesday, raising familiar questions about the impact of early exits on the broader Seattle startup ecosystem, and the question of whether AI startups can compete long-term against the giants...

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The Rivian showroom at University Village in Seattle in 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) With the threat of a ballot initiative looming, a slate of auto dealers in Washington have come out in support of EV makers Rivian and Lucid...

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An artist’s conception shows the integrated design for the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA is reworking its Artemis moon program to add a test mission for commercial lunar landers in low Earth orbit next year, with...

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Rob Lloyd, chief technology officer for the City of Seattle, announced that he is stepping down from his role in March. (Photo courtesy of Rob Llloyd) Rob Lloyd, Seattle’s chief technology officer, is leaving his post to become executive...

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(Photo by Jason Richard on Unsplash) Washington state has received a federal green light for its final plan under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program — the national push to extend high-speed internet to places that...

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Inside Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon is doubling down on OpenAI, announcing a strategic partnership Friday that includes a $50 billion investment in the ChatGPT maker. The companies said Amazon...

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Confido Legal, a Seattle startup that builds financial software for law firms and legal tech companies, raised $9 million across two rounds. The company spun out of Seattle-based Gravity Payments and is led by Emery Wager, a Stanford grad...

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(BigStock Photo) Uber and Lyft drivers protested in downtown Seattle on Wednesday, calling on the companies to stop adding new drivers to what they call a “flooded” market. The action comes as a new report shows the majority of miles...

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Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Data center titans Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are headed to the White House next week to sign a commitment to fund their own energy infrastructure costs,...

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Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1980. The Microsoft co-founders shared a love for computer software, but pro sports was Allen’s thing. (Photo courtesy of Microsoft Archives) Cross Bill Gates off the list of super rich potential buyers for the...

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(Read AI Image) Seattle startup Read AI launched a new “Digital Twin” product that works through email and can help schedule meetings, answer questions, and keep conversations moving. The AI bot, branded as “Ada,” builds on the company’s...

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A high-speed passenger-only ferry crossing Washington’s Puget Sound. (Kitsap Transit Agency Photo) Five days a week for more than three decades, Greg Nance‘s dad commuted by ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle where he worked as a...

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(Valve Software Image) A new suit filed by the New York attorney general seeks to stop Valve Software’s use of “loot box” mechanics in its popular PC games, accusing the Bellevue, Wash.-based company of making billions of dollars by luring...

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Each night, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues thousands of alerts about changes in the night sky. (NOIRLab / NSF / DOE-SC Illustration) An astronomical alert system developed at the University of Washington started off with a bang this...

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Zillow Group’s new senior leadership team members, from left: Christopher Roberts, Jon Lim and Marissa Brooks. (Zillow Photos) Zillow Group announced three promotions to its senior leadership team. After nearly two decades with Zillow,...

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Vercept’s Ross Girshick (left), Kiana Ehsani, and Luca Weihs. Ehsani shared this on LinkedIn with the news that Vercept is joining Anthropic, noting, “Vercept is much bigger than the founders and there are many amazing team members that...

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Bill Gates, pictured here in 2020, apologized to Gates Foundation staff over his past interactions with Jeffrey Epstein in an internal town hall on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Bill Gates...

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The Union.ai team. (Union.ai Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Union.ai announced that it closed a $38.1 million Series A round, led by NEA, with participation from Nava Ventures and new investor Mozilla Ventures. The total includes a...

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Alexa responds with “All systems operational” in the new Brief personality mode on an Echo Show. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Tired of Alexa’s constant chatter? Wish Amazon’s voice assistant would just get to the point without all the...

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Solar panels on a Seattle house. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The pitch for rooftop solar has never been easier to make: energy costs are up, the strain on the electrical grid is real, and the sun shines for free. But the math has...

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The front lobby of Kumo, an Amazon office building at 1915 Terry Ave. in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon plans to exit an office building near its Seattle headquarters, 12 years after taking over the space during the height...

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Jared Nakahara (left), co-founder of life sciences startup Levity and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington, demonstrates an acoustic limitation system designed to manipulate small liquid droplets using sound waves as...

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David Luan led the team responsible for Amazon’s Nova Act agentic technology. (Amazon Photo) David Luan, who led Amazon’s San Francisco-based AGI Lab and oversaw one of its most important agentic AI initiatives, is leaving less than two...

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An artist’s conception shows the Sophia 40 TILE satellite, with each tile powered by its own solar panel. (Sophia Space Illustration) Sophia Space says it has closed a $10 million seed financing round to accelerate the development of...

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Nooks CTO and co-founder Nikhil Cheerla. (Nooks Photo) Nooks is nestling into Seattle. The San Francisco-based startup, which builds AI software for sales teams, is expanding its engineering footprint in Seattle — growing from zero to six...

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Jesse Collins. The two towers near Aberdeen weren’t supposed to be monuments. They were supposed to be engines. Drive west from Olympia and you’ll see the unfinished nuclear plant rising from the evergreen canopy. The project promised...

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Washington state Sen. Victoria Hunt, a co-sponsor of SB 6346, speaks during a virtual news conference on Monday about how she learned that her name had been fraudulently signed in as “con” over the weekend on a public comment page ahead of...

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Inside an Amazon data center. (Amazon Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon on Monday announced a $12 billion data center project in Louisiana in which the company vowed to pay its own way for energy and other infrastructure. The deal highlights the...

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Elevat CEO Adam Livesay. (Elevat Photo) Seattle startup Elevāt has raised $12 million as part of a Series A round to fuel growth of its software aimed at helping industrial companies and equipment makers streamline repairs and reduce...

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Temporal co-founders Maxim Fateev, CTO (left), and Samar Abbas, CEO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev have been tackling the same distributed systems problem since their days at Amazon, Microsoft, and...

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The scene inside the 2025 GeekWire Awards at Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Wednesday. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Time is running out to get your nominations in for the 2026 GeekWire Awards. If you want to help us recognize the...

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Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming, at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) “And the thing about games is, if you get good at one game, you can be good at any game. … They’re all hand-eye coordination and...

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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 Feb. 15, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our...

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, far left, walks around Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a team of troubleshooters working on a helium flow issue with the Space Launch System rocket in the background....

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GeekWire’s Todd Bishop unpacks an Amazon Now delivery that was ordered when the show began, and arrived well before it ended. Amazon promises 30-minute delivery with its new Amazon Now service. We put it to the test — live on the GeekWire...

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Amazon Web Services issued an unusual public rebuttal to a Financial Times report about outages. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Seven hours at the top of Techmeme was apparently too much for Amazon to take. The tech giant’s cloud...

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Asha Sharma and Matt Booty, the new leadership team for Microsoft Gaming. (Microsoft Photo) During Phil Spencer’s tenure as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, he brought dozens of the games industry’s best developers and most beloved franchises...

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A view of the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System’s call of a ball as it appeared during the Seattle Mariners game on Friday. (Screen grab via Mariners.TV) The Seattle Mariners opened their Spring Training schedule with a win and a loss...

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Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, at the Xbox E3 Briefing at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles in 2019. (Microsoft Photo) Phil Spencer, the Xbox leader who spent 38 years at Microsoft and helped reshape the gaming industry...

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Karim Meghji, president and CEO of Code.org. (Code.org Photo) — Karim Meghji is taking over the the role of president and CEO at Code.org, the Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit. Meghji, the former CTO at Seattle...

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A keychain in the Microsoft company store awaits one of the company’s returning commuters. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Remember that return-to-office mandate Microsoft announced last fall? It’s almost here. Monday, Feb. 23 — yes, next...

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Matt Oppenheimer led Remitly for nearly 15 years as co-founder and CEO. He announced this week that he’s moving into the chairman role. (Remitly Photo) Build with intentionality. Lead with authenticity. Prioritize customers over your ego....

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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (NASA Photo / Aubrey Gemignani) NASA counted down to T-minus 29 seconds tonight during a rehearsal for a historic launch that could send astronauts around the moon for the...

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The Seattle Seahawks have been officially for sale for a day, but the speculation about who could be the next owner of the team has been in high gear for years. National media personalities are now playing catch-up. “The Rich Eisen Show”...

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Seattle-area transit riders will soon be able to tap their physical credit cards or smartphone to pay for fares. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) The ubiquitous tap-to-pay technology now common in grocery stores and coffee shops is coming...

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Paul Brainerd at a Brainerd Foundation retreat in Montana. (Brainerd Foundation Photo) In the summer of 1984, Paul Brainerd and four engineers packed into his old Saab and drove south on Interstate 5 from the Seattle area. They had been...

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TerraClear’s autonomous field robot the TerraScout. (TerraClear Photo) TerraClear’s mission to help farmers map and tackle tough field problems such as rocks and weeds has evolved with the launch of a new machine: an autonomous robot...

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Bili House is a hacker house located on the water in Bellevue, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Bili House) A large house overlooking Meydenbauer Bay in Bellevue, Wash., could be the home of the Seattle-region’s next big AI startup. At the very...