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From OK grades to Dartmouth Hall of Fame: Remitly’s Matt Oppenheimer on his ‘strengths and shadows’
September 11, 2026
Matt Oppenheimer, second from right, at his Dartmouth College Entrepreneur Hall of Fame induction ceremony in San Francisco on Thursday. The Remitly co-founder is joined by school friends and dignitaries, from left, Jeff Crowe, Andrea Reisman Johnson, Trevor Jensen, Maia Josebachvili, Dartmouth...
Raiders star Ashton Jeanty backs Nukleus, a tech platform for athletes and their advisors
September 11, 2026
Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty, an investor in Nukleus and a spokesperson for the platform. (Nukleus Photo / Ben Miller) Hector Rivas spent a decade building ThriftBooks into one of the country’s largest used-book sellers, before an unlikely second act: co-founding a sports agency...
‘You cannot fund compassion from an empty treasury:’ Seattle Chamber CEO frames economic growth as a civic imperative
September 10, 2026
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen speaks at the Westin Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire photo) Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen delivered a direct message to regional leaders at the organization’s 144th annual meeting on Thursday: Seattle’s progressive...
Top Seattle tech and business leaders demand 100-day public safety action plan from City Hall
September 10, 2026
Tents in a vacant lot in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A roster of top Seattle business leaders and regional CEOs is demanding urgent action from City Hall on public safety, calling on Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council to roll out a concrete 100-day...
Amazon expands its Quick AI assistant on mobile in challenge to Microsoft and Google
September 10, 2026
Amazon Quick’s new activity feed on mobile: the morning priority view, left, and the full feed. (Amazon Images) Amazon is adding the Activity Feed and other features from its Quick desktop app to the AI assistant’s mobile apps for iOS and Android. The Activity Feed is the signature feature of...
Spotlight: Startup vet launches Latch to liberate humanity ‘from doing work that owns us’
September 10, 2026
Latch co-founders Jared Kofron (left) and Stefan Kalb. (Photo via Latch) Seattle startup veteran Stefan Kalb is back with a fresh brand and an ambitious vision for enterprise automation in the AI era. Rebranded earlier this year from Super Labs, Kalb’s latest venture, Latch, is positioning...
Microsoft 2.5: EVP Pavan Davuluri wants to remake Windows for both human and agent users
September 10, 2026
Pavan Davuluri says Windows will keep serving human users while adding agentic workloads. (Microsoft Photo) GeekWire is profiling over the next few weeks some of the people and teams that are shaping the evolution of Microsoft in what we’re calling its “Microsoft 2.5” era. Just Don’t Call It...
Amazon updates its Luna gaming service to enable remote multiplayer sessions, add free games
September 10, 2026
(Amazon press image) The September update for Amazon’s cloud-based gaming service Luna comes with multiple new features, the most prominent of which is one that will allow up to 7 other players to remotely participate in the same gaming session. Since its aggressive relaunch earlier this...
Seattle biotech BrainChild Bio raises $116M to advance CAR T therapy for childhood brain cancer
September 10, 2026
Michael Jensen, left, and Steven Brugger are leading BrainChild Bio. (Photos via BrainChild Bio) Seattle biotech startup BrainChild Bio has raised $116 million to advance an experimental CAR T cell therapy for one of the deadliest forms of childhood brain cancer. The Series A financing will...
Seattle economic study finds strong tech assets, a risky concentration, and a tax that ‘penalizes’ hiring
September 10, 2026
A new report says Seattle’s economy “may not be in decline, but it is in danger.” (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) An independent study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city’s tax structure is unique among its peers in the way it “specifically penalizes the hiring of senior,...
Prime-time AI: Microsoft Copilot gets a share of the spotlight during Seahawks’ season opener
September 09, 2026
A Microsoft Surface tablet running Copilot at Lumen Field in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Microsoft Surface tablets on NFL sidelines — a game-day fixture since 2014 — got a close-up on national television Wednesday night, with NBC highlighting new AI-powered workflows...
Amazon’s new board member is a cybersecurity founder who sold his last company to Google for $5.4B
September 09, 2026
New Amazon board member Kevin Mandia is a cybersecurity veteran. (Photo via Amazon) Amazon named cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, adding new security expertise a few months after former NSA director Keith Alexander stepped down. Mandia founded Mandiant, the...
Opinion: It’s time for Seattle to believe in Seattle
September 09, 2026
Seattle’s foundation as a hub of technology, science and innovation runs deep. Its confidence should, too. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: Jacob Colker is co-founder and co-managing director of AI House.] Seattle is one of the most talented, creative and inventive places in...
General Motors to open downtown Seattle office to bring together remote technical talent
September 09, 2026
The West8 office building in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood. (Image via West8Seattle.com) General Motors is expanding its presence in the Seattle region with a new downtown office slated to open in early 2027. The automotive giant signed a lease for a 43,000-square-foot space at West8...
NLM Photonics adds key investors in quest to reduce the power needed to move data between chips
September 09, 2026
Test equipment measures a chip that uses NLM’s technology, showing how cleanly it carries high-speed data. (NLM Photonics Photo) NLM Photonics, a Seattle-based chip materials startup and University of Washington spinout, announced two new investors: Pangaea Ventures and Diamond Edge Ventures,...
General Robotics, led by Microsoft vets, says its AI has cut robot setup from a month to hours
September 09, 2026
A robot arm pours from a test tube into a beaker in General Robotics’ lab. The company used the task, and progressively harder versions of it, to test its Auto Engineering system. (General Robotics Photo) A Redmond, Wash., robotics software startup founded by former Microsoft researchers says...
With a headcount topping 800, Helion opens Seattle office in pursuit of fusion energy
September 08, 2026
Helion Energy’s new Seattle office. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy, in its hard-charging pursuit of fusion energy, has opened an office in downtown Seattle as its headcount swells to 800 employees. The company already occupies five buildings in Everett, Wash., where it’s headquartered, plus...
Tech Moves: T-Mobile appoints CFO; Microsoft and Blue Origin VPs depart; AZX and Caddi name leaders
September 08, 2026
Jessica Uhl. (T-Mobile Photo) — Telecom giant T-Mobile announced that Jessica Uhl will join as chief financial officer-designate later this month, and succeed Peter Osvaldik as CFO in February. Uhl served as CFO of Shell and worked for the global oil and energy giant for more than 17 years. She...
‘100% real, no AI’: Watch video from Code.org founder Hadi Partovi’s Viking-inspired wedding
September 08, 2026
Hadi Partovi, left and Becca Oystila during their wedding in a recreated/historic Viking village in Sweden. (Tommy Agriodimas Photo) Maybe Hadi Partovi could use his sword or hammer to slay AI slop. The co-founder of CodeAI, the computer science education platform that rebranded from Code.org...
Pallet shuts down after nine years of taking on homelessness with its durable micro-shelters
September 08, 2026
A village of Pallet tiny houses, with some customization by residents. (Pallet Photo) Nine years after setting out to tackle unsheltered homelessness with rapidly deployable, hard-panel micro-shelters, Everett, Wash.-based social purpose corporation Pallet is closing its business. In a post...
Stoke Space raises $1B to expand its footprint and upsize its fully reusable Nova rocket
September 08, 2026
Stoke Space’s Nova Pathfinder upper stage flight article No. 1 sits at the company’s factory in Kent, Wash. (Stoke Space Photo) Stoke Space says it has raised roughly $1 billion to get ready for the first launch of its fully reusable Nova rocket — and to scale up the rocket’s design for even...
All a circuit board! Tech engineer tracks trains, ferries and more in real time with a post-layoff project
September 07, 2026
Seattle Transit Live, a circuit board map of Seattle-area trains, ferries and more. (Michael Benedict Photo) When Sound Transit opened the light rail 2 Line across Lake Washington in March, software engineer Michael Benedict built a custom gift to mark the milestone for his transit-fanatic wife:...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 30, 2026
September 06, 2026
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 Aug. 30, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Cowboy Space leases a huge facility in the Seattle area to produce hardware for orbital data centers
September 05, 2026
An artist’s conception shows one of Cowboy Space’s data centers in Earth orbit. (Cowboy Space via LinkedIn) California-based Cowboy Space is leasing a 291,035-square-foot industrial facility in Kent, Wash., to support the production of hardware for its planned constellation of AI data center...
NBA’s Ballmer crackdown echoes Microsoft antitrust; SF vs. Seattle housing; and a Seahawks tech twist
September 05, 2026
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: The NBA suspends former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a year and hits the Clippers with $30 million in fines and five lost draft picks over allegedly sham endorsement deals for Kawhi Leonard, drawing comparisons to the Microsoft antitrust era. A new...
Seattle Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging they trained their AI on its journalism
September 04, 2026
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Friday, accusing the tech companies of using their journalism to train AI products without permission. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle...
WSU President Betsy Cantwell builds custom AI agents — but won’t ask them to predict the Apple Cup
September 04, 2026
Betsy Cantwell, president of Washington State University, poses alongside an appropriately colored painting at Seattle’s Washington Athletic Club. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) WSU President Betsy Cantwell is a full-on techie. She spent more than two decades in national laboratories...
‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ exhibit makes a weekend run in Seattle, with fan art and 35 years of history
September 04, 2026
Sonic on display at the 210 Gallery in Pioneer Square on Sept. 3, as part of a media preview event. (GeekWire Photo / Thomas Wilde) If you attended the Sunset Market in Seattle’s Pioneer Square on Thursday night, you might’ve noticed that one of the local galleries had been transformed into a...
Startup Spotlight: Food photographer uses 25-year archive to build an AI tool that eliminates costly reshoots
September 04, 2026
A hamburger photographed by SP Studio, left, and then tweaked by Scott Pitts in Pallat to add tomatoes. (Pallat Images) Longtime Seattle food photographer Scott Pitts spent 25 years capturing commercial imagery for major brands, and now he’s using that quarter-century archive to train Pallat....
Etzioni on AI: What kids tell chatbots, but not you
September 04, 2026
Teens are taking questions about their health, their moods and their friendships to chatbots — often without telling anyone. (GPT-5.6 Sol) Kids are heading back to school across the country with a tool in their pocket that will do their homework, answer the questions they’re too embarrassed to...
NASA’s chief talks up nuclear power during ‘Inspiration Tour’ of Northwest space ventures
September 03, 2026
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addresses hundreds of Rocketdyne employees during his stopover at the company’s facility in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman came to Rocketdyne’s facility here today to give a pep talk to the space...
New Seahawks co-owner with deep Seattle tech roots says, ‘I’m the 12th man … I want to represent that’
September 03, 2026
Sunny Gupta and the Seattle Seahawks mascot Blitz during a game at Lumen Field. (Photo courtesy of Sunny Gupta) Sunny Gupta has been a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan for almost 20 years, hosting tailgates and sitting in the exact same club-level seats with his family and friends since 2007. Now,...
Two familiar Seattle tech figures turn up on Seahawks co-owner list as sale is finalized
September 03, 2026
The Seahawks open the 2026 season at Lumen Field on Sept. 9 against the New England Patriots. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The sale of the Seattle Seahawks to the Khosla family officially closed on Thursday, completing a historic ownership transition for the NFL franchise. But a small...
Startup takes on AI hallucinations with $25M and an HQ rooted in a small Washington town
September 03, 2026
Kevin Owens, co-founder and CEO of Resect AI. (Resect AI Photo) Resect AI, an artificial intelligence startup led by a team of scientists and engineers in Washougal, Wash., launched out of stealth Thursday with $25 million in funding to commercialize an open-source technology designed to catch...
Tech Moves: Microsoft names execs; DAT, Oracle and Hiya departures; new Zillow policy lead
September 03, 2026
Aneesh Raman. (LinkedIn Photo) — Aneesh Raman has taken the role of chief economic opportunity officer at Microsoft. He previously held the same title at LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary where he worked for five years. The job is focused on “helping companies, including our own, build and...
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