9:18 AM PST Tech9:18 AM PST GeekWire Gala early bird rates end soon — grab your ticket now to Seattle’s hot holiday party
6:35 AM PST Tech6:35 AM PST Amazon doubles total Anthropic investment to $8B, deepens AI partnership with Claude maker
2:52 PM PST Tech2:52 PM PST Seattle area’s ‘bomb cyclone’ storm drives demand at EV charging stations – and gas pumps
1:40 PM PST Tech1:40 PM PST Uncommon Thinkers: Ingrid Swanson Pultz devotes herself to improving lives through protein design
10:29 AM PST GeekWire 200 Highlights10:29 AM PST GeekWire 200 update: A new No. 1 rises to the top of our startup rankings
9:23 AM PST Tech9:23 AM PST Ai2’s new Tulu 3 model rivals tech giants in breakthrough for open-source AI post-training
8:48 AM PST Social Media8:48 AM PST Bezos calls Musk’s latest jab ‘100% not true’ as space rivals renew social media spat
7:58 AM PST Startups7:58 AM PST Reading the EV tea leaves: What happens to electric vehicle sales under a Trump presidency?
7:52 AM PST Startups7:52 AM PST This startup wants to digitize and secure the way used cars are sold by private parties
8:08 PM PST Tech8:08 PM PST WTIA honors 40 years of boosting Washington’s tech sector as new CEO aims for more impact
2:07 PM PST Education2:07 PM PST Three UW students receive scholarship funds in honor of late Seattle entrepreneur Richard Tait
10:30 AM PST Startups10:30 AM PST Tech Moves: Former leaders at Qualtrics and AWS land CEO roles; VertueLab adds board member
9:30 AM PST Amazon9:30 AM PST Amazon goes big with Echo Show 21 for smart home control, organization and entertainment
8:37 AM PST Civic8:37 AM PST Seattle mayor, who sits on a federal AI panel, says he’ll seek ways to work with Trump administration
7:02 AM PST Startups7:02 AM PST CoreStack acquires Karthik Consulting to boost cloud governance platform
6:00 AM PST Startups6:00 AM PST ‘Quiet ICU’ startup CalmWave raises $5.2M to silence excessive patient alarms in hospitals
6:00 AM PST Startups6:00 AM PST Washington’s former chief privacy officer raises $2.2M for startup using AI to predict legal cases
2:44 PM PST Civic2:44 PM PST Seattle lawmakers reject capital gains tax proposal ahead of final vote on the city budget
12:15 PM PST Startups12:15 PM PST Silicon Valley innovation group Plug and Play plants flag in Seattle region with new startup programs
9:33 AM PST Geek Life9:33 AM PST Seattle sushi restaurant closes after popular TikTok food critic’s video sparks concerns of worm in fish
7:00 AM PST Startups7:00 AM PST WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler retiring after 11 years leading Washington state tech group
6:47 AM PST Tech6:47 AM PST Microsoft unveils its own Cloud PC: ‘Windows 365 Link’ device will sell for $349 to businesses
5:30 AM PST Microsoft5:30 AM PST ‘Embrace the red’: Microsoft puts up another $4M for cloud and AI bugs in broader security push
5:30 AM PST Tech5:30 AM PST Microsoft and Atom Computing leap ahead on the quantum frontier with logical qubits
5:00 AM PST Startups5:00 AM PST Influencing sales: Levanta, which helps Amazon sellers partner with creators, raises $20M
5:00 AM PST Startups5:00 AM PST Monitoring global hotspots, Seattle media startup Factal lands key partnership to grow its business
5:14 PM PST Civic5:14 PM PST Energy demand, stoked by AI and expanding electrification, is outpacing supply
10:01 AM PST Cloud Tech10:01 AM PST Amazon hires former Microsoft and SAP exec Julia White as new AWS marketing chief
