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GeekWire Gala early-bird rates end this week — here’s 5 sweet reasons to attend the big bash

No need to wait until Christmas, or your holiday of choice, to discover any sweet treats in your stocking. The… Read More

Andy Lapsa in front of propellant tank at Stoke Space factory

Uncommon Thinkers: Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa explores an innovative route to rocket reusability

Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive… Read More

WTIA report on AI landscape in Washington highlights state’s strengths and challenges

A new report from Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) offers a deep dive on the state’s artificial intelligence ecosystems, highlighting… Read More

GeekWire Gala early bird rates end soon — grab your ticket now to Seattle’s hot holiday party

If you’ve got a busy holiday to-do list going, make sure you bump this item to the top: secure early… Read More

Amazon doubles total Anthropic investment to $8B, deepens AI partnership with Claude maker

Amazon will invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform, bringing its total… Read More

Seattle area’s ‘bomb cyclone’ storm drives demand at EV charging stations – and gas pumps

A “bomb cyclone” storm with blasting winds and rain on Tuesday caused power outages for more than 640,000 utility customers… Read More

Uncommon Thinkers: Ingrid Swanson Pultz devotes herself to improving lives through protein design

Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive… Read More

Ai2’s new Tulu 3 model rivals tech giants in breakthrough for open-source AI post-training

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is releasing a new set of open-source AI models and related resources in an… Read More

WTIA honors 40 years of boosting Washington’s tech sector as new CEO aims for more impact

The tech scene in Washington looked quite different than today when the Washington Technology Industry Association launched back in 1984.… Read More

Microsoft unveils its own Cloud PC: ‘Windows 365 Link’ device will sell for $349 to businesses

Microsoft will offer its own device that automatically connects to Windows 365, the subscription service that lets business users stream… Read More

Microsoft and Atom Computing leap ahead on the quantum frontier with logical qubits

Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can… Read More

Microsoft turns a new page in the book business with its own publishing imprint

Microsoft will attempt to find the sweet spot between the speed of social media and the lasting impact of books… Read More

University of Washington computer science professor wins $100K Infosys Prize

Shyam Gollakota, a University of Washington computer science professor and Seattle-based health tech startup founder, won a $100,000 award as… Read More

Gilead Sciences to close Seattle office; shutdown impacts 72 employees

Biopharma giant Gilead Sciences will shut down its office in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood, the company confirmed to GeekWire on Wednesday.… Read More

Get your GeekWire Gala tickets as festive holiday party returns to Seattle on Dec. 12

The hap-happiest time of the year can also be the geekiest — so make sure your plans include the upcoming… Read More

Uncommon Thinkers: Zap’s Uri Shumlak wrestles with fusion energy in pursuit of carbon-free power

Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive… Read More

Zillow Group revenue up 17% to $581M as rentals, mortgage units drive growth

Zillow Group beat estimates for its third quarter, reporting revenue of $581 million and adjusted earnings of $127 million.

Column: To navigate the promise and peril of AI, resist the urge to fall into extreme narratives

Editor’s note: This is guest commentary from Dave Siegfried, CEO of Official AI, a Seattle startup building a marketplace designed… Read More

Bell Canada acquiring Seattle-area internet provider Ziply Fiber in $3.6B deal

Kirkland, Wash.-based fiber internet service provider Ziply Fiber agreed to be acquired by Bell Canada, a subsidiary of Canadian telecom… Read More

Expedia chairman Barry Diller on potential deal with Uber and Washington Post’s ‘blunder’

Expedia chairman Barry Diller told CNBC on Monday that a rumored acquisition of Uber is “just not going to happen.”… Read More

No harsh mandates: Tech leaders on what’s working with their hybrid return-to-office policies

Return-to-office policies are often controversial and emotionally charged — but do they have to be? Two tech leaders recently shared… Read More

Report: Benioff in talks to sell Time; Salesforce CEO has called media ‘much harder’ than tech

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is in talks to sell Time to Greek media company Antenna Group, CNBC reported Friday, citing… Read More

Ultra Safe Nuclear files for bankruptcy in a procedure aimed at facilitating its sale

Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. says it has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition as part of a court-supervised process… Read More

Amazon corporate headcount drops year-over-year as tech giant aims for efficiency

Amazon continues to take a cautious hiring approach with its corporate workforce, following years of huge headcount growth. The company’s… Read More

OpenAI’s ChatGPT search engine challenges Google and Microsoft, and further upends the web

Artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI launched its own ChatGPT search engine on Thursday, positioning itself as a challenger to search titan… Read More

Rover acquires cat-sitting marketplace to further expand its growth across Europe

Rover has gotten its paws on another pet-sitting marketplace. The Seattle-based pet-care company announced the acquisition Thursday of Cat in… Read More

On first earnings call, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol details plan to ‘bring order’ to mobile ordering

Improving the mobile ordering experience at Starbucks is high on Brian Niccol’s to-do list as he takes the CEO reins… Read More

Remitly stock spikes 19% after first profitable quarter; revenue up 39%

Shares of Remitly surged in after-hours trading as the Seattle-based digital remittance company reported its first profitable quarter.

Microsoft beats expectations with nearly $25B in quarterly profits, as AI revenue boosts cloud growth

Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations across its key financial metrics for its first quarter of fiscal 2025, as artificial intelligence… Read More

Univ. of Washington selected for new federally funded Northwest innovation training hub

The University of Washington is part of a new federally selected Northwest Region Hub to support the commercialization and deployment… Read More