Google’s Kirkland Urban campus in Kirkland, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Google is laying off 52 employees in Washington state, according to a state filing released Wednesday. The job cuts include software engineers, engineering and product managers, mechatronics engineers,...
Google veterans leaving to launch Discovery Loop, from left: Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean, and Quoc Le. (Discovery Loop Photo) Speaking in June at the University of Washington Allen School commencement, AI pioneer Jeff Dean told computer science graduates how he “got the itch to...
Older ferries like this vessel sailing across Washington’s Puget Sound are scheduled to be upgraded or replaced with electric-hybrid ferries to cut greenhouse emissions. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The sun is setting on Washington state’s aging diesel-powered ferry fleet as work begins on...
Comedian and “Love Isn’t Blind” host Allison Goldberg, center in pink, during the touring live show. (Photo via Love Isn’t Blind) Can’t a tech bro catch a break? A live dating show that has made stops in Seattle sheds a little bit of light on how tech workers in the city are received,...
Zillow Group’s headquarters at 1301 Second Ave. in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo) Zillow Group’s layoffs will eliminate 91 jobs in Washington state, landing heavily on senior staff, according to a notice the company filed with the state Employment Security Department. The filing...
Prompted by GeekWire to create three separate children’s stories about animals — a bear, a bird and a cat — Google Gemini Storybook rendered three male characters. A new UW study dives much deeper into AI models’ gendering of animal characters. (Google Gemini Images) A bear is almost certainly a...
Investors and innovators at the kickoff happy hour at 2026 Pacific Northwest Climate Week. (GeekWire Photos / Laura Scott) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, All Episodes Most climate news these days is grim. But at a rooftop happy hour...
A Falcon 9 rocket arcs into the night sky during a February 2023 launch. Most of SpaceX’s launches carry Starlink satellites built at the company’s factory in Redmond, Wash. (SpaceX Photo, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) The satellites rolling off the line in Redmond, Wash., are paying for Elon...
GeekWire Illustration Seattle-based online real estate company Zillow Group laid off more than 500 employees Tuesday, about 7% of its global workforce, its second and largest round of cuts this year. The layoffs are about “ensuring we have a disciplined cost structure and getting more...
Teri Hatfield. (LinkedIn Photo) — Teri Hatfield was named chief revenue officer for Iterable, a customer engagement platform. The Seattle-area tech executive most recently served as executive vice president of sales and solutions at Salesforce and CRO of Tableau, which Salesforce acquired in...
Jyoti Shukla, chief product and technology officer at KEXP, inside the live room at the Seattle radio station. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle indie radio powerhouse KEXP has hired tech veteran Jyoti Shukla as its first chief product and technology officer, with an unusual mandate in...
GeekWire Illustration Microsoft and Amazon both saw their stocks surge again Monday, riding a post-earnings tech wave across the stock market that pushed Amazon past $3 trillion in value for the first time. The gains follow earnings reports last week in which both companies’ cloud platforms...
Magdalena Balazinska, left, outgoing director of the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and Dan Grossman, the school’s vice director and newly named interim director. (UW Photos) Top leadership is shifting at the University of Washington’s Paul G....
Viet Nguyen in his Seattle home office, with two of the civic sites he built using AI: Culliton2026.org on the monitor and a dashboard on the King County homelessness authority on the laptop. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The tradition of using new technology to shape political discourse goes...
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 July 26, 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: Microsoft and Amazon both reported quarterly numbers, and both stocks rose on cloud results that beat expectations. Is all that AI spending paying off? And in related news, Microsoft sees a rare annual headcount decline, hitting product R&D hardest. Plus:...
Seattle Tech Week attendees fill AI House at Pier 70, spilling onto the deck overlooking Elliott Bay. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) Attending as many Seattle Tech Week events as possible and talking with as many people as I could, I was struck by the number of people looking for work and the...
An illustration of a protein created by Accipiter Bio that has two active sites, shown in light and darker green, that can simultaneously bind two targets. (Accipiter Bio Image) Less than a year after emerging from stealth operations with $12.7 million and partnerships with pharmaceutical...
The number of product research and development roles at Microsoft declined for the second straight year, according to the company’s annual regulatory filing, offering a new indication of how the tech giant is reshaping its workforce in the AI era. Microsoft’s total headcount declined by...
Wenxin Fang of Redmond, Wash., holds the ZeroPivot Protractor that he designed and is selling through a new Kickstarter campaign. (Photo courtesy of Wenxin Fang) Wenxin Fang was 14 years old when he realized he was fed up with fighting with a flimsy piece of plastic in math class. As an...
A small slice of the new “Washington Tech Universe” map. See the full version here. How interconnected is Washington’s tech industry? Enough that a large share of the state’s companies can trace their lineage to Microsoft, the University of Washington, Amazon, and a handful of other...
(Wizards of the Coast press image) This year’s Gen Con is being held in Indianapolis July 30 through Aug. 2. In advance of the show, one of the biggest events on the calendar for North America’s tabletop gaming community, Wizards of the Coast invited press to take an early look at its scheduled...
AWS CMO Julia White, left, and CEO Matt Garman at an event in April. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services revenue grew 37% last quarter, its fastest pace since the end of 2021, but the company is spending so much on data centers and infrastructure to fuel that growth that its...
Jeremy Bernier, a plumber and U.S. Navy veteran, recently started retail delivery startup MODRA. Jeremy Bernier has spent years fixing clogged pipes. Now he’s trying to fix another everyday frustration: shopping local. The U.S. Navy veteran and owner of Nerd Plumbing and Drain has founded...
(August Interactive press image) A Seattle game studio is collaborating with NASA to create a new educational video game that challenges players to plan, collaborate, and invent their way to building a virtual lunar colony. Moonbase Y, currently under development at August Interactive, is a...
The first thing I do when Microsoft’s 10-K or 10-Q comes out is hit Ctrl-F and go waaaay down to the section called “Revenue, classified by significant product and service offerings.” It’s on Page 85 of the 10-K that came out Wednesday with its quarterly and annual results. From my...
Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy. (LinkedIn Photo) After nearly three decades at Microsoft, cybersecurity executive Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy has announced he is joining Salesforce as executive vice president of engineering. Parthasarathy is part of a wave of senior Microsoft security leaders...
K2 Space’s Gravitas satellite, shown here during final integration, was launched in March. (K2 Space Photo via PRNewswire) K2 Space, a California-based satellite company that recently set up an engineering hub in Seattle, has announced a $500 million funding round at a $6.8 billion...
One of the electric Volkswagen ID. BUZZ vehicles that will serve as a free shuttle for light rail riders arriving in downtown Bellevue, Wash. (Visit Seattle Photo) Stepping off the light rail in downtown Bellevue, Wash., is about to come with a free ride. Visit Bellevue announced this week...
The Remitly Global Card. (Remitly Image) Remitly, the Seattle digital remittance startup built on sending money across borders, is now offering a debit card and account meant to hold that money, too. The company on Thursday launched the Remitly Global Card, a Visa debit card and linked...
This full-scale prototype of Interlune’s lunar excavator was developed in partnership with Vermeer in 2025. Testing as shown was done with auxiliary components. (Interlune / Vermeer Photo) Seattle-based Interlune is expanding its partnership with Vermeer, an Iowa-based industrial equipment...
An artist’s conception shows a data center satellite that makes use of Sophia Space’s tile-based architecture. (Sophia Space Illustration) Sophia Space has secured a patent for a technology that could pave the way for solar-powered orbital data centers that passively radiate excess heat into...
Jacob Colker of AI House speaking at the Showbox Market in Seattle, where he later joined bandmates on drums. (Photo / AI House) AI House co-founder and managing director Jacob Colker may be Seattle’s number one cheerleader. In posts on LinkedIn, panel discussions and recent news stories, Colker...
Swami Sivasubramanian on stage at AWS re:Invent in 2023, with a keynote slide behind him. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon just broadened the role of Swami Sivasubramanian, the VP behind AWS’s agentic AI push, expanding and renaming his organization to include emerging technologies, and...
GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s Azure cloud business grew 43% last quarter, blowing past the company’s own forecast and surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time, providing fresh evidence of the potential for artificial intelligence to fuel new growth for the tech giant....