Two of Loomerang’s co-founders: Vijay Roy, left, and Matt Koyama. (Loomerang Photo) Loomerang made its first sale less than 12 hours after it went live in June. A customer in Houston bought a shirt designed by Joe, an independent artist in Japan. Four months later, the Seattle-based...
Helion’s Orion fusion plant is under construction in Malaga, Wash., with plans to start operating the facility in 2028. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy, the Everett, Wash., startup racing to build the world’s first fusion plant, is expanding its semiconductor development and manufacturing efforts....
Watchtower Labs co-founders, from left, Souren Aghajanyan, John Morman, and Akhil Iyer. (Watchtower Labs Photo) Watchtower Labs, a Bellevue, Wash.-based defense tech startup, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $35 million to build AI software that helps military planners make faster decisions...
Elizabeth Kimber. (LinkedIn Photo) — Kymeta has appointed former CIA Deputy Director Elizabeth Kimber as chief growth officer. Kymeta, a Redmond, Wash.-based mobile satellite communications company, is working to increase sales with the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and...
Stripe co-founder and President John Collison has been nominated to join Microsoft’s board of directors. (Stripe Photo) When Stripe co-founder John Collison interviewed Satya Nadella on his company’s podcast last fall, he asked the Microsoft CEO for advice on building a platform business....
Endurance Energy prepping to test its geothermal system off the coast of Oregon. (Endurance Photo via LinkedIn) Endurance Energy says its prototype marine geothermal power system generated more electricity than it consumed during a recent deployment 300 miles off the Oregon coast — though the...
Portal Space Systems’ Starburst-1 spacecraft is shown in orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket prior to deployment. (SpaceX Webcast Image) Portal Space Systems has reached Earth orbit for the second time this year, successfully launching the startup’s first free-flying spacecraft, Starburst-1,...
Structural models of two enzymes created using models developed at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Image / Benedicte Rossi) The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (IPD) today released a new open-source model for creating proteins with specific functions, called...
Alaska Air Group is a proponent of sustainable aviation fuel as the most affordable and practical near-term solution for cutting the sector’s climate impacts given that it can be used in existing aircraft. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts,...
The Paul G. Allen Center on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, home to the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, which a university task force has recommended separating from the College of Engineering. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) University of Washington leaders are...
Charles Fitzgerald at an abandoned Westinghouse light bulb and fixture factory in Cleveland. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) Editor’s note: GeekWire has been examining the economic challenges facing Seattle and the lessons the region can learn from Cleveland’s industrial decline and ongoing...
Employees work on a soldering project during a workshop in a Microsoft Garage space. Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, and some spaces could be restricted as early as this week. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, ending a...
Reliable’s automated Cessna 208B Grand Cavan conducts autonomous operations in Mojave, Calif. (Reliable Robotics Photo) Aviation startup Reliable Robotics is opening a new engineering hub in the Seattle area, establishing a radar research and development center in Bothell. The Mountain View,...
Amazon’s holiday hiring plans for its operations network are the biggest in its history. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon says it plans to hire more than 300,000 people for seasonal, part-time and full-time roles across its U.S. operations this holiday season, an increase of 20% from...
Rosie COO Karthika Shankar, left, and CEO Mitra Raman started out doing the work themselves — watching kids, folding laundry and organizing garages for the company’s first customers — learning and building the business as they went. (Rosie Photo) Mitra Raman was making dinner one night, watching...
The LaserWeeder G2 from Carbon Robotics is pulled behind a tractor to detect and zap weeds on a farm. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Carbon Robotics, the Seattle-based agricultural technology startup known for its AI-powered, laser-weeding farm implements, has trimmed its workforce. The company did...
T-Mobile’s Deeanne King, right, enjoying the Pacific Northwest with family. (Photo courtesy of King) When Deeanne King came to the Pacific Northwest in 2020 — relocating from Kansas after Sprint merged with Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile — she fell in love with the region’s natural beauty. In...
Amazon’s TorchNeuron sits between PyTorch and the company’s Trainium chips, supporting developers’ existing code. (Amazon Image) A new software tool from Amazon aims to make switching from Nvidia to the company’s own AI chips about as simple as changing a setting. The software, dubbed...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, shown speaking at a past Microsoft event, argued this month that companies should rely on outside controls rather than trusting AI models themselves. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is coming out with new security tools that treat AI agents as potential insider...
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 Oct. 11, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we start by opening the listener mailbag, highlighting some recent comments that set a new standard for critical feedback, in different ways. We discuss Vayo, the AI travel venture Booking Holdings is launching in Seattle, home of its biggest rival,...
Amazon Bee’s recording light is easy to miss, says a former AWS security engineer. (Amazon Image) Amazon’s new Bee AI devices ask the wrong person for consent, according to a privacy and security veteran who previously worked as a senior principal security engineer at Amazon Web Services. In...
The AI slap: forwarding AI-generated text without reading it. (GeekWire Illustration / GPT-6) We’ve all encountered the phrase AI slop, but what’s an AI slap? A meat proxy? Chatfishing? Or agentsomnia? Following up on my glossary of AI, which demystified AI jargon, Prof. Dan Weld is joining me...
Inrix co-founder and CEO Bryan Mistele above rush-hour traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle in 2011. After more than two decades of turning traffic data into a business, Inrix has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Arity, a subsidiary of Allstate. (GeekWire File Photo / Annie Laurie...
Darko Mesaros, a distinguished developer advocate for Amazon Web Services, is surrounded by vintage computer equipment in the garage of his Maple Valley, Wash., home. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Darko Mesaros used to park a car in the garage of his Maple Valley, Wash., home. These days,...
A Prime 360 replay shows a Lakers-Pacers play from a court-level angle. (Amazon Image) Amazon is bringing a new AI-powered camera system to the court as the tech giant gets ready to tip off its second season of basketball coverage on Prime Video. Called Prime 360, the technology uses an array...
TriMagnetix co-founders Madison Hanberry, left, and Lucas Hahn at the Plug and Play Semiconductor Accelerator kickoff. (Plug and Play Photo) Seattle-based TriMagnetix has landed new funding and commitments totaling $1 million to continue developing a semiconductor chip that, according to initial...
President Trump at the White House ballroom construction site in May. Microsoft, Amazon and T-Mobile have committed $20 million to the project, according to the Washington Post. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) Microsoft committed $10 million to President Trump’s White House...
Microsoft President Brad Smith, shown speaking at a Microsoft event last year, told Politico this week that the Trump administration’s claims about the company’s foreign workers were “completely off base.” (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft President Brad Smith says someone apparently...
Zeacon co-founders Kris Naidu, left, and Jay Gounder. (Zeacon Photo) Businesses spend heavily to attract visitors to their websites, but traffic doesn’t necessarily translate into sales. Bellevue, Wash.-based Zeacon is building AI tools to help companies connect their marketing content with...
Hundreds of Lime e-bikes and scooters staged in a parking lot in the Pioneer Square neighborhood during the FIFA World Cup match between USA and Australia in Seattle this summer. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Lime riders in Seattle have already outpaced last year’s entire ridership numbers,...
Innovations from Seattle startups that made Time’s Best Inventions list, clockwise from top left: Tin Can’s landline-style phone; OneCourt’s tactile tablet for low-vision sports fans; Seattle Ultrasonics chef’s knife; Yoodli’s “Create” tool. (Images via Tin Can, OneCourt, Seattle Ultrasonics,...
The M4 Thruster from Agile Space Industries is designed to provide position control for small spacecraft. (Agile Photo) Space propulsion company Agile Space Industries is expanding its footprint to the Pacific Northwest, signing a sublease for a new engineering office in Bellevue,...
Amazon’s new Bee Frontier wristbands, front, and Bee Eclipse devices, which attach magnetically to the back of a phone. (Amazon Image) Bee, the AI wearables startup Amazon acquired last year, makes devices that remember what people say in everyday conversations. A new update, announced Thursday...
Anqi Chen, left, and Hojae Choi, are lead authors on two Nature papers from UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Photos) Researchers at UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) have created new proteins that act like molecular scissors, chopping up targets associated with...