The nationwide ground stop that halted U.S. departures Friday afternoon has no apparent connection to the Microsoft 365 outage that began a day earlier, but a link to the FAA’s new AI traffic-planning tool can’t be ruled out yet, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters at...
Artwork shows an early conception for the Orbital Reef space station, a project led by Blue Origin. (Blue Origin Media) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has decided not to seek further NASA funding for its Orbital Reef space station project in order to tighten its focus on lunar...
Araceli Biosciences’ imaging platform. (Araceli Photo). Araceli Biosciences, a Portland-area biotech company, has secured $4.5 million in funding to help commercialize technology and develop new products that support using human cells instead of animal studies to test new drugs. The Tigard,...
Juno Propulsion co-founder and CEO Alexis Harroun is working on rotating detonation engines at her startup. (Juno Propulsion Photo) Editor’s note: This series profiles five Seattle-area “Uncommon Thinkers,” who will be recognized Dec. 10 at the GeekWire Gala in partnership with Greater Seattle...
Microsoft says delayed email is close to cleared after an outage that cut off Outlook for much of Thursday. (Unsplash Photo / Ed Hardie) Updated below with Microsoft statements. If emails sent by Outlook users on Thursday are just now landing in your inbox, no, you haven’t gone back to the...
Nick Huzar, co-founder and CEO of Juicer Energy, speaking at an event hosted by GeekWire and Bank of America at the Bellevue showroom of Ferrari of Seattle on Nov. 10, 2026. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Nick Huzar co-founded Juicer Energy in 2023 to make electric vehicle charging more...
Office towers and the Spheres on Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon is the best company in America, according to Forbes. The Seattle tech giant took the No. 1 spot on the publication’s 2027 “America’s Best Companies” list, moving up from No....
Docugami CEO Jean Paoli is joining Inveniam as chief product and technology officer. Docugami, the Seattle-area startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, has been acquired by Inveniam, a Detroit-area company that uses blockchain to help investors verify the data behind assets such as commercial...
Colette Kress, Nvidia’s CFO since 2013, will keep that role while serving as interim CEO. (Nvidia Photo) Colette Kress, named Nvidia’s interim CEO on Thursday after Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation, spent 13 years at Microsoft earlier in her career, including four as chief financial officer of...
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang during a Microsoft Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on Oct. 7. (Ken Yeung Photo for GeekWire) As the fallout from Jensen Huang’s affair came to a head with his resignation as Nvidia CEO on Thursday, attention has turned in part to his wife, Lori Huang, who...
Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon’s plans to build a data center campus near the Columbia River in Eastern Washington drew pushback Monday at a meeting of the Walla Walla County commissioners. Some attendees held handmade and printed signs reading “Amazon lies,”...
Constellation Space’s software platform uses machine learning to optimize satellite data transfer. (Constellation Space Illustration) Seattle-based Constellation Space is rolling out its flagship software platform, which uses machine learning to streamline operations for fleets of satellites and...
TAF co-founders Trish Millines Dziko, left, and Jill Hull Dziko receive flowers from Sherry Williams, TAF’s executive director of operations, at the organization’s 30th anniversary celebration in Seattle in October. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editor’s note: Microsoft, which underwrites...
The structures of the basal ganglia illuminated as part of the Human Mammalian Brain Atlas, a three-dimensional reference atlas to facilitate brain research and collaboration among organizations and scientists. (Allen Institute Photo / Ashwin Bhandiwad) A coalition of 56 institutions across nine...
From left: DeltaGen co-founder Michal Studnicka, Worker co-founder and CEO John Roberts, Worker CFO Nick Byrd, DeltaGen co-founder Matus Ondreicka, and DeltaGen co-founder Rene Bystron. (Worker Photo) DeltaGen, an AI startup that got its start in Seattle before moving to San Francisco this year,...
WellSaid CEO Benjamin Dorr says the AI voice company is now profitable. (WellSaid Photo) WellSaid, the AI voice company that spun out of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2019, is reinventing itself for the era of AI agents. The company this week launched WellSaid...
Lila Biologics co-founders CEO Jake Kraft, left, and Chief Scientist Anindya Roy. (Lila Photo) Lila Bio, a startup spun out of Nobel laureate David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington, has received a $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a treatment for...
The chef in “The Snackbar at the End of the World.” (Snackbar Studio Image) If the eventual release of “The Snackbar at the End of the World” is a full-on meal for video game fans, news this week of the game’s first trailer should at least suffice as an appetizer. Seattle-based Snackbar...
AWS Emulator began as a weekend experiment, when an engineer prompted the Kiro coding agent to build a passable version of Amazon SQS in 15 minutes. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) AWS says its engineers didn’t write or review a single line of code in its newest developer tool, and the...
Dan Ayoub. (LinkedIn Photo) — Dan Ayoub, the past head of Dungeons & Dragons, has been named president of Wizards of the Coast & Hasbro Digital Games. Ayoub joined the Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast in 2022 and counts himself among the longtime players of D&D and Magic: The...
From left: Ascend partner and chief of staff Jen Haller, founding general partner Kirby Winfield, and principal Nate Bek. (Ascend Photo) Venture firm Ascend has closed a $17 million third fund and landed its first institutional investor, in what founder Kirby Winfield calls the toughest...
A view toward Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle from Lumen Field. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle will expand its police surveillance camera network to three more neighborhoods, Mayor Katie Wilson said Tuesday, ending a pause she put in place in March over privacy and civil...
Representatives of the 25 nonprofits receiving Microsoft’s first Community-First Grants pose for a photo Monday with company leaders in Redmond with Seattle Mariners star Cal Raleigh and the team’s mascots. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The Lighthouse for the Blind is adding braille displays to...
A South Lake Union view from Plaid’s Seattle office at 1000 Dexter Ave. N. (Plaid Photo) Plaid is opening an engineering office in Seattle’s Westlake neighborhood in January and plans to double its local workforce to about 80 people by next summer. The San Francisco-based fintech company says...
A Sabey Data Center facility in Quincy, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Data center developers already knew they had a public relations problem. This month’s midterm elections showed how much of a political problem it has become. Voters approved data center restrictions in 44 of 45...
“Lives Carried Forward,” a show by artist Yidan Guo, at Gallery at the Park in Richland, Wash. (Allied Arts Association Photo) Allen Family Philanthropies and Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund awarded $10 million to 745 small arts and culture organizations across Washington state, and renewed the grant...
PitchBook is giving early-stage startups free access to its data, in exchange for some of their own. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) PitchBook announced a new program to give early-stage startups free use of its private-market data, if they share their financials and other company details. The...
Ring Drone Cam, left, and Ring Rover Cam. (Ring Images) Amazon’s Ring unveiled a $249.99 flying indoor security drone and a $999.99 mobile patrol robot for businesses, bringing back two ideas that stalled in earlier incarnations. The Ring Drone Cam and Ring Rover Cam,...
Twelve’s AirPlant One is turning captured carbon dioxide into a low-carbon aviation fuel. (Twelve Photo) Washington has cleared a milestone in its effort to become a hub for lower-carbon jet fuel, unlocking tax incentives aimed at attracting production to the state. Gov. Bob Ferguson...
Shield AI co-founders Brandon Tseng, left, and Ryan Tseng. (Shield AI Photo) As a kid on Mercer Island, Brandon Tseng delivered The Seattle Times and the Mercer Island Reporter for extra cash. Now he and his older brother, Ryan Tseng, are making news of their own in the Seattle region. Shield...
Trevor Noah, Rana el Kaliouby and Oren Etzioni discuss AI onstage at Boston’s Museum of Science on Oct. 19. (Nicolaus Czarnecki Photography for the Museum of Science, Boston) On Oct. 19, Trevor Noah launched Luminaries, a science conversation series at Boston’s Museum of Science. I joined him...
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 Nov. 1, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Firmly CEO Kumar Senthil says merchants shouldn’t have to build a new integration for every AI shopping channel. (Firmly Photo) Firmly, a Seattle-area startup that helps online retailers sell through AI shopping assistants, raised a $15 million Series A round led by Squarepoint Capital, with...
This week: Shield AI, the defense tech company building its X-BAT autonomous fighter jet south of Seattle, agrees to acquire Kirkland-based radar maker Echodyne in a deal valued at up to $5.3 billion. We discuss what it means for the Seattle region’s rise as a defense tech hub, how the...
At a conference, a fashion entrepreneur gave Glenn Kelman a bracelet that said “we are enough.” (Image via Glenn Kelman) After 20 years at Redfin, and 10 months of unemployment, I’ve co-founded a new company. My business partner and I will announce our plans after we’ve built our product, but in...