Workers install equipment in the data center housing the new Ai2 computing cluster funded by Nvidia and NSF. (Ai2 Photo) The Allen Institute for AI says it has brought online and started using a powerful new computing system funded by Nvidia and the National Science Foundation, the first big...
Microsoft’s Fairwater data center near Atlanta is part of the company’s broader AI expansion. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is considering scaling down or scuttling a pledge to match its electricity use with carbon-free power around the clock by 2030, according to Bloomberg. As tech companies...
Lumen Field in Seattle, home of the Seahawks. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Former Boston Celtics majority owner Wyc Grousbeck and Aditya Mittal, an investor in the NBA team, are preparing a bid to purchase the Seattle Seahawks, according to a report Thursday by Sportico. The report cites...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent in 2025. (GeekWire File Photo) Generative AI bear Gary Marcus called the AI capex boom the “greatest capital misallocation in history.” Goldman Sachs analyst Eric Sheridan reaches the opposite conclusion in his “AI in a Bubble?” research...
A Microsoft-branded beanie at the company store at the tech giant’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft employees eligible for the company’s first-ever voluntary retirement program are learning the details of the package Thursday morning, including the...
Washington state’s Legislative Building in Olympia, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) [Editor’s Note: Sales consultant and former startup founder Ron Davis is a candidate for the Washington state Legislature, who has written for GeekWire previously on startup sales hiring practices....
Bigstock Photo Zillow Group says its engineers are shipping 40% more code each, on average, thanks to internal use of AI tools, allowing them to move features faster from concept to launch. That’s one of the AI claims the company made in its first-quarter shareholder letter Wednesday, which...
GeekWire’s Kurt Schlosser cruises the Burke-Gilman Trail in Seattle on a new LimeBike electric bicycle from Lime this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Lime’s newest electric bike is being billed mostly as an accessibility upgrade, but don’t let that undersell it — this thing is nimble,...
The XBOW team photo from the company’s website shows employees gathered in Malta, where founder and CEO Oege de Moor is based. The company lists Seattle as its headquarters. (XBOW Photo) The headquarters address of one of Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startups isn’t a trendy office tower or a...
Tin Can landline phones in a variety of colors. (Tin Can Photo) Tin Can, the Seattle startup behind the screenless, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone for kids, is launching a new feature aimed at the groups that have been driving its rapid growth: schools, neighborhoods, and parent organizations...
The new ownership group of the New England Eagles Minor League Cricket franchise, clockwise from top left: Vandana Thomas, Anand Subbaraj, Gaurav Seth, Satheesh Santhamurthi, and Manoj Naidu. (LinkedIn Photos) After more than a decade building cricket fields, sponsoring youth teams, and...
SageOx co-founders, from left: Milkana Brace, Ajit Banerjee, and Ryan Snodgrass. (SageOx Photo) SageOx, a Seattle startup building tools for teams where humans and AI coding agents work side by side, has announced $15 million in seed funding. The company launched in January. The round was led...
T.A. McCann inside Pioneer Square Labs’ Seattle offices. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Serial entrepreneur and investor T.A. McCann has started companies at the front edge of every major tech wave for three decades, from the web and cloud services to mobile and social apps. Maybe it...
Asha Sharma was named Xbox CEO in February after leading Microsoft’s CoreAI group. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is pulling the plug on its AI-powered Copilot assistant for Xbox, winding down the feature on mobile and canceling its planned launch on consoles. The pullback, announced Tuesday by...
Yunyan Wang. (LinkedIn Photo) — Yunyan Wang has left Amazon to become chief technology officer at Chewy, the leading online pet retailer. Wang spent more than 12 years at the Seattle-based tech giant, most recently as vice president of Commerce & Supply Chain Services. “(Wang’s) track record...
CopilotKit co-founders Uli Barkai, head of growth, left, and CEO Atai Barkai. (CopilotKit Photo) CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in the former Techstars Seattle accelerator, has raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software applications. The...
Artist’s rendering of Moment Energy’s planned Austin, Texas, gigafactory. (Moment Energy Image) Moment Energy, a British Columbia-based startup repurposing used electric vehicle batteries, has announced a $40 million investment to help fund construction of a massive factory in Texas and more...
Caption: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the company’s Copilot initiatives. A new Microsoft study finds that the biggest barrier to AI at work isn’t the technology — it’s the organizations around it. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an...
A Panthalassa wave energy system. (LinkedIn Photo) Wave energy had largely been bobbing around in the background of the U.S. clean energy sector — until now. On Monday, Oregon-based Panthalassa announced a $140 million round led by Peter Thiel. The new funding from the PayPal co-founder and...
(BigStock Photo) For years, the rules around cellphones in Seattle Public Schools depended largely on which school — or even which classroom — a student walked into. That ended today. The district enacted its first districtwide cellphone policy on Monday, setting a single standard for all...
Microsoft’s unofficial Ninja Cat mascot rides the OpenClaw lobster. (Image via Omar Shahine’s blog) Bob. Clippy. Cortana. Copilot. Microsoft has been trying to unlock the personal-assistant puzzle for decades. Now a fledgling team inside the company that’s been experimenting with OpenClaw — an...
Project LEDO founder Fidel Ferrer, second from left, working with Lego robotics students in his program. (Project LEDO Photo) Through Lego robotics and a STEM curriculum, Project LEDO serves as both an inspiration and a safety net for low-income kids and students of color in Portland, Ore., and...
Interlune test engineer Alex Lewandowski and mechanical engineer Jessica Wu check test equipment for the mass spectrometer system in the Regolith Lab at the company’s Seattle headquarters. (Interlune Photo) NASA has awarded a $6.9 million contract to Seattle-based Interlune for the development...
Amazon is opening its logistics network to outside businesses through a new offering called Amazon Supply Chain Services. (Amazon Photo) Amazon launched a new business that opens its entire logistics network to outside companies — sending shares of UPS and FedEx tumbling and marking the latest...
An AI prompt screen, as reimagined by Google Gemini. [Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series by Oren Etzioni about AI usage and best practices. See also “AI Coach or AI Ghostwriter? The Choice Is Yours,” and “How to read with AI.”] A friend asked ChatGPT for input on a professional...
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What it was like inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how hard it is to find anyone neutral about Musk these days. Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured...
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes a waving gesture while commenting on millionaires threatening to leave Washington state during her appearance at Seattle University earlier this month. (Screenshot via YouTube / Seattle Channel) Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being greeted with a bit of backlash...
Tracy Drinkwater engaging with visitors at the Seattle Universal Math Museum, which she founded. (SUMM Photo) Tracy Drinkwater bristles when people — sometimes proudly — declare they “can’t do math.” No one, she notes, would similarly boast about being bad at reading or history. But she...
The U.S. Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (BigStock Photo) Microsoft and Amazon joined other leading artificial intelligence companies in signing deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon networks, the Defense Department announced Friday, accelerating a push to build what the military...
Panelists during a session at the Women in Tech Regatta in Seattle on Wednesday. From left, moderator Sarah Studer of the University of Washington, Maria Martin of Nordstrom, Nandita Krishnan of Adobe, and Anya Edelstein of Highspot. (WiT Regatta Photo) Women have long been left out of the...
Merrill Keating, left, and Doña Keating are the mother-daughter co-founders of AI startup Convexus. (Photo courtesy of Merrill Keating) While much of the debate around artificial intelligence centers on the technology’s threat to jobs and society, one Seattle-area startup is turning that anxiety...
Apple’s Tim Cook, left, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. (Apple, Meta Photos) Seattle Seahawks fans envisioning another tech billionaire as the new owner of the NFL team have a couple Silicon Valley-based names to consider. Or not. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been...
Top: Center for an Informed Public co-founder Kate Starbird speaking at a University of Washington lecture. Bottom: AI House managing director Jifan Zhang and an AI House event. (CIP and GeekWire Photos) Each year, the GeekWire Awards celebrate the geeky endeavors making a meaningful impact...
The night sky over Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will take a $900 million charge in its current quarter for its one-time voluntary retirement program, the company disclosed in its earnings report Wednesday. Just to put that in...