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This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. (Illustration by Real Estate News/Shutterstock) Compass and the Washington state-based Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) have settled their year-plus-long lawsuit,...

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Movable shelving towers that hold items that are autonomously moved to Amazon employees who pack them for shipping. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Amazon is accused of artificially inflating the ad prices on its e-commerce site in a...

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EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas (EIT Pharma Photo) A Kirkland, Wash.-based biotech company led by former Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Propel Bio Partners, the Los Angeles investment firm where...

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Two of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters towers rise above the Spheres. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon is cutting 121 jobs in Washington state, according to a new state regulatory filing on Monday, hitting corporate tech teams...

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Alessio Sanfilippo, CEO of Redin. (Redfin Photo) Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate brokerage acquired last year by Rocket Companies, has named Alessio Sanfilippo as CEO. Sanfilippo was previously Meta’s vice president of insights for...

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Ben Steele, chief commercial officer for Also, poses with the company’s TM-B e-bike on the deck of Also’s new offices in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Also, a fast-growing electric micromobility startup born out of Rivian in...

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The TM-B e-bike from Also, atop the hill at Gas Works Park in Seattle and just down the road from the startup’s new offices. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) I pulled a classic Seattle move while test riding an e-bike from Rivian spinout...

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Bill Gates, shown here in April 2025, released a memo this week warning that the world isn’t ready for AI. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Bill Gates published a new essay warning that the AI industry is...

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Agnes Kim, founder of ViaJiin, a Korean-sourced beauty supply startup based in the Seattle area, with some of the skincare products that her new company offers. (ViaJiin Photos) Long before the July email arrived confirming she was one of...

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Marc Whitten, the new president and CEO of Dolby Laboratories. (Dolby Photo) — Marc Whitten, a former Microsoft and Amazon executive, was named president and CEO of San Francisco-based Dolby Laboratories. He succeeds Kevin Yeaman, who is...

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Malek Itani, a Ph.D. student in the UW’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. (Photo courtesy of Malek Itani) University of Washington Ph.D. student Malek Itani, who co-founded the AI-powered sound enhancement...

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Arkero co-founders, from left: Daniel Shi, who oversees business operations; CEO Shivaas Gulati; and Vamsi Narla, who leads product and engineering. (Arkero Photo) Arkero, a Seattle-area startup leveraging AI to help professional sports...

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L-R: OnTrade co-founders Zachary Harl, chief investment officer; Raji Subramanian, CEO; and Matt Williams, president. (OnTrade Photos) The co-founders of Pro.com, the Seattle-based home-improvement marketplace acquired by Opendoor in 2021,...

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From left, Marc Cummings, Life Science Washington; Snehal Patel, Sana Biotechnology; Joe Horsman, Madrona Venture Group; Rebecca Bryant, Fred Hutch Cancer Center; and Alex Zanghellini, Arzeda, at a Seattle forum hosted by the National...

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Skyfarer founder and CEO Nick Tsang in the cockpit of a Gulfstream G650. (Photo courtesy of Nick Tsang) When a pilot wants to find a flight instructor, a mechanic, an examiner for a flight test, or a fair price on an airplane, the solution...

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Ali Farhadi, now a Microsoft corporate vice president of AI, at a Technology Alliance event in May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo) GeekWire is profiling over the next few weeks some of the people and teams that are shaping the evolution of...

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Cory Black is a former tech worker who left his career to focus on juggling, mostly of soccer balls. (Vitz Photography Photo) Most tech workers are used to keeping multiple projects up in the air at once. Cory Black took the concept to a...

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Dr. Kelly Paulson examines an immunofluorescent image showing T-cells surrounding a lobular breast cancer tumor sample, confirming a finding flagged by Ai2’s AutoDiscovery system. (Ai2 Photo) An AI system built by Seattle’s Allen Institute...

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Levanta builds marketing tools so influencers and creators can connect with brands. Image via Levanta. Influencers and online creators have become an increasingly powerful way for brands to sell products. But managing those relationships...

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Bill Gates, whose new essay warns of the risks ahead in the AI era, during a 2017 interview. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) When Bill Gates talks, people listen. This week he published a lengthy essay on what AI is going to do to...

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(BigStock Photo) T-Mobile is cutting 77 jobs across Washington state, trimming staff across its Bellevue headquarters, regional retail stores, and remote roles, according to a new state filing. The layoffs are expected to occur between...

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Graze co-founders Peat Bakke (left) and Devin Gaffney. (Graze Photo) Portland-based social media startup Graze is joining Flipboard in a strategic acquisition aimed at expanding open social protocols and giving users control over their own...

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Meta must overhaul Instagram and Facebook for young users by enforcing daily time limits, turning off push notifications during school hours, and blocking access late at night. (BigStock Photo) Washington state will receive up to $339...

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DuckDB creators Mark Raasveldt, left, and Hannes Mühleisen. (DuckLabs Photo) Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database that has become a favorite of developers looking to...

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In the foreground are battery packs just as they would look installed in an EV, now repurposed by Redwood Materials and plugged into the microgrid serving Crusoe’s data center at Redwood’s campus in Nevada. (Redwood Photo) Subscribe to...

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Bill Gates at the keyboard in a 2018 file photo. (Gates Notes Photo) Bill Gates is legendary, bordering on notorious, for his late-night emails — missives to colleagues and associates with piercing questions about Java back in the day, or...

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TerraPower’s new Weed Maps helps farmers identify individual weeds as small as a quarter inch. Photo via TerraPower. The next big test for AI isn’t happening in a data center. It’s happening in the dirt. Really, it’s in the weeds. Two...

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Dolly Parton in Los Angeles in 2012. (BigStock Photo) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the chorus of people who said they were touched by the life and work of Dolly Parton as he shared his condolences after the passing of the entertainment...

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(Wizards of the Coast/Invoke Studios press image) Wizards of the Coast and its subsidiary Invoke Studios released a first-look gameplay trailer for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, a new open-world action game based upon the systems and...

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(Compulsion Games image) One of the video game studios impacted by Xbox’s layoffs in July has successfully reclaimed its independence, as well as control over its intellectual property. Compulsion Games, headquartered in Montreal, was...

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The International Remote Baggage Screening platform allows U.S. customs agents to analyze X-ray images of checked baggage during an inbound flight. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) While passengers are cruising at 35,000 feet, their...

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Amazon’s ZancaSort system brings packages to workers automatically at its Last Mile Innovation Center in Dortmund, Germany. A separate initiative, Project Tetromino, reportedly aims to bring full automation to delivery stations. (Amazon...

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TwinStrand graphic A federal judge has entered a final judgment requiring Guardant Health to pay more than $245 million to Seattle biotech TwinStrand Biosciences and the University of Washington over DNA sequencing technology developed at...

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Digs co-founders Ty Frackiewicz, left, and Ryan Fink. (Digs Photo) Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup building AI software for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in Series A funding led by building products giant Builders...

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The players are the controller in the play spaces at Immersive Gamebox. (Immersive Gamebox Photo) Immersive Gamebox, a global interactive group gaming company, is coming to the Seattle region with its first Pacific Northwest location...

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Rep. Shelley Kloba, D-Kirkland, has introduced a privacy bill in the Legislature every year since 2021, none of which has reached the House floor due to disagreements over whether consumers should be able to sue. (Washington House...

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GeekWire Illustration Zillow and Redfin settled an antitrust case with the Federal Trade Commission and five states on Monday, just as a trial was set to begin, agreeing to undo part of a $100 million partnership that the government said...

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Matt Allen, chief client officer at McKinstry. (McKinstry Photo) Matt Allen wasn’t sure he wanted to pursue a career at McKinstry, the Seattle-based company his grandfather co-founded in 1960. The business started with plumbing and piping,...

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Definitions for the AI era. (GPT-5.6 Sol / Illustration, Click for larger image.) Jargon stinks.  What do the terms open weights, RAG, and agent mean exactly? Here’s a plain English, slightly snarky glossary of befuddling AI...

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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. 16, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our...

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s delivery drones are going national, nearly 13 years after Jeff Bezos unveiled them on 60 Minutes. We listen back and discuss what’s next. Plus: We go inside Anduril’s unmarked Bellevue office as...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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(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...

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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...

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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...

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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...