05 de junho de 2015
Tech Moves: Zillow names CPO; AWS leader retires; Microsoft hires AI expert from Apple
fevereiro 25, 2026
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, Christopher Roberts is now chief product officer....
Anthropic acquires Vercept in early exit for one of Seattle’s standout AI startups
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 made this happen, but I love this ‘thinking’ photo of us...
Seattle-area startup Union.ai raises $19M to fuel AI workflow platform
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 previously announced $19.1 million portion...
Bill Gates addresses Epstein fallout at foundation as new Microsoft revelations emerge
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 apologized to Gates Foundation staff on Tuesday for his...
The rooftop solar reset: Seattle startup launches platform to streamline financing and installation
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 gotten harder, as federal tax credits evaporate and utility...
Pick Alexa’s personality: Amazon lets users choose ‘Brief,’ ‘Chill,’ or ‘Sweet’ conversation styles
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 extra stuff? Maybe I’m just speaking for myself? Anyway,...
Amazon to move out of longtime office building near its main Seattle headquarters
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 of its growth in the city. Amazon is not renewing its...
As AI reshapes work, Microsoft and UW expand partnership for training, research — and a looming jobs gap
fevereiro 25, 2026
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 Microsoft President Brad Smith looks on. (GeekWire Photos /...
Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving in latest exit from high-profile Adept startup deal
fevereiro 24, 2026
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 years after joining the tech giant through an acqui-hire...
Sophia Space raises $10M to accelerate creation of orbital computing systems
fevereiro 24, 2026
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 orbital computing systems that could serve as the foundation...
San Francisco AI startup Nooks makes engineering push in Seattle
fevereiro 24, 2026
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 engineers recently and hiring for more platform and...
Column: Public trust is becoming AI’s real bottleneck
fevereiro 24, 2026
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 clean energy, jobs, and technological prestige. Instead,...
Group alleges fake sign-ins used to pad apparent opposition to Washington state ‘millionaires tax’
fevereiro 23, 2026
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 a House Committee on Finance hearing on the millionaires...
Water, power, and transparency: Amazon’s $12B data center deal signals a new era of accountability
fevereiro 23, 2026
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 unwritten expectations now placed on tech giants to...
Seattle startup Elevāt raises $12M to help industrial companies speed up equipment repairs
fevereiro 23, 2026
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 downtime. Elevāt CEO Adam Livesay confirmed the new...
Temporal CEO Samar Abbas on the ‘massive platform shift’ in AI fueling the startup’s $5B valuation
fevereiro 23, 2026
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 Uber. But the AI boom has put the problem “on steroids” as...
Nominate the best in Pacific NW tech and help set the stage for the 2026 GeekWire Awards
fevereiro 23, 2026
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 outstanding tech entrepreneurs, innovators, deal makers and...
Who is Asha Sharma? A closer look at Microsoft’s surprise pick to lead the Xbox business
fevereiro 23, 2026
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 observing patterns.” That’s a line from Tomorrow, and...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 15, 2026
fevereiro 22, 2026
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 GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Helium problem forces NASA to delay Artemis 2 launch to the moon and roll back the rocket
fevereiro 22, 2026
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. (NASA Photo) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the...
We tested Amazon’s speedy delivery live on the podcast: Here’s what it says about the future of retail
fevereiro 21, 2026
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 Podcast — with help from Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz,...
Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages
fevereiro 21, 2026
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 division, Amazon Web Services, issued an unusually pointed...
Analysis: The best thing that the new Xbox CEO can do is … nothing
fevereiro 21, 2026
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 under a single roof. As a result, his successor Asha...
Mariners open Spring Training with a win — and a loss in first Automated Ball-Strike challenge
fevereiro 21, 2026
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 on Friday, beating the San Diego Padres 7-4 but losing...
Xbox chief Phil Spencer retiring after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma named new gaming CEO
fevereiro 20, 2026
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 through big acquisitions and a bet on cloud gaming, is retiring...
Tech Moves: Code.org has a new leader; Synapse vet joins Amazon; ex-Tableau CEO lands at Code Metal
fevereiro 20, 2026
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 digital remittance company Remitly, joined Code.org in 2022 to...
Microsoft’s new RTO policy starts Feb. 23, bringing Seattle-area workers back 3 days a week
fevereiro 20, 2026
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 week! — will mark the start of the company’s new policy...
NASA completes a smooth rehearsal for historic Artemis 2 moon launch
fevereiro 20, 2026
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (NASA Photo / Aubrey Gemignani) NASA counted down to T-minus 29 seconds during a smooth rehearsal for a historic launch that could send astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than half a century. The...
From a mall booth to a $3B fintech: Matt Oppenheimer’s startup lessons from a 15-year journey with Remitly
fevereiro 20, 2026
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. And focus on the problem you’re solving — with...
Ballmer? Bezos? Sir Mix-a-Lot? Seahawks sale draws more hot takes on potential owners and price
fevereiro 20, 2026
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” on ESPN / Disney+ weighed in Thursday (above) with a...
Seattle transit’s new ‘tap-to-pay’ feature goes live next week as region gears up for World Cup
fevereiro 19, 2026
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 to Seattle-area buses and trains next week. Starting...
PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet
fevereiro 19, 2026
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 laid off after Kodak bought their employer, Atex, a company...
TerraClear launches autonomous farm robot to capture images for tackling rocks, weeds and more
fevereiro 19, 2026
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 called TerraScout. The startup, based in Issaquah, Wash.,...
New hacker house in Seattle area brings startup founders together under one creative roof
fevereiro 19, 2026
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 least, it’s a place where ideas are being hatched by tech...
Seattle startup Adronite raises $5M to help enterprises understand their codebases
fevereiro 19, 2026
Adronite CEO Edward Rothschild. (Adronite Photo) Seattle startup Adronite raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, as it looks to expand its AI-powered platform designed to give large organizations visibility into sprawling and complex codebases. The funding...
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