Meta’s Dexter Station office in Seattle. (Meta Photo) Another round of layoffs at Meta will affect 168 employees in Washington state, according to a filing from the state Employment Security Department. “Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they’re in the...
(Rec Room Image) The despair among Rec Room players is real. Users of the popular social gaming platform expressed their disbelief and sadness over the demise of the Seattle-based company, which announced Monday that it is shutting down on June 1, and that some of its assets are being...
A Seattle startup founded by former Google and Microsoft engineers is betting that companies will increasingly want to build and own smaller, specialized AI models rather than relying on general-purpose alternatives from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Oumi, which launched its...
Lindsay-Rae McIntyre. (Alaska Airlines Photo) Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is the new chief people officer at Seattle-based Alaska Airlines. She joins the airline from Microsoft, where she most recently served as chief diversity officer and corporate VP of Talent and Learning. “There is a vast,...
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Brent Urke, program manager for L3Harris’ facility in Redmond, Wash., check out a model of the Orion spaceship that’s due to take four astronauts around the moon as early as this week. Cantwell is pointing to the model’s set of eight R-4D thrusters. An actual R-4D...
Amazon Leo and Delta Air Lines announced a deal Tuesday for satellite-powered in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2028. (Amazon Photo) Amazon Leo has landed its highest-profile customer yet, reaching a deal with Delta Air Lines to provide satellite-powered Wi-Fi on 500 aircraft starting in 2028. The...
Satya Nadella in November 2016, in his honeymoon period as Microsoft CEO. (GeekWire File Photo) [Editor’s Note: We’re excited to welcome Mary Jo Foley as a GeekWire contributor. Mary Jo has been one of the sharpest watchers of Microsoft for many years, currently as Editor in Chief at Directions...
Rec Room, the social gaming platform that reached more than 150 million players, is shutting down on June 1. (Rec Room Image) Snap Inc. confirmed late Monday that it has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., following the news that the Seattle-based company plans to shut down its longtime...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Portal Space Systems’ “Mini-Nova” technology demonstration payload and more than 100 other payloads into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (SpaceX Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems has made its first foray into Earth orbit, in the...
Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1, leaving the future of the company and its employees unclear. The company made the announcement Monday afternoon, saying it couldn’t find a path to profitability even...
AI video generator PixVerse is opening an office in Bellevue, Wash., and released its latest model, which it says “delivers complex scenes with coherent motion and consistent detail.” (PixVerse Image) PixVerse, the Singapore-based AI video generator, is establishing its first U.S. office in...
(Image via Claude) You are using AI to write and so is your boss, your intern, and virtually everyone else. That ship has sailed so arguing whether to board is a waste of breath. The real question is: how do you use AI? AI is a fork in the road disguised as a shortcut. Down one path, it’s...
Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon has purchased 1,300 acres of undeveloped land on the Oregon side of the Columbia River that could one day become a massive computing campus with up to 20 data center buildings, the Oregonian reports. The Seattle-based tech...
Sound Transit’s Link light rail crossing Lake Washington’s floating bridge. (Sound Transit Photo) Amazon and Microsoft are on board with the Crosslake Connection. With this weekend’s grand opening of Sound Transit’s Link light rail service over Lake Washington between Seattle and the...
Microsoft is using Anthropic’s Claude to review work by OpenAI’s GPT inside Copilot’s Researcher agent. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A new feature from Microsoft uses Anthropic’s Claude to assess and correct the work of OpenAI’s GPT, blending the tech giant’s new and old AI partnerships in the...
Image of a Starcloud deployment of its space-based data center. (Starcloud Photo) Starcloud, a startup building solar-powered data centers that operate in space, announced $170 million in new funding Monday, vaulting it to unicorn status with a $1.1 billion valuation. The Redmond, Wash.-based...
Ravi Vedula holds a photograph of himself and his childhood friends from their housing colony in Panjagutta, Hyderabad, taken more than 40 years ago. The boys went on to become leaders at Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Rivian, and other companies. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) One of Ravi Vedula‘s...
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 March 22, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
OpenAI CTO of Applications Vijaye Raji, left, and GeekWire’s Todd Bishop on stage at the GeekWire AI summit, Agents of Transformation, in Seattle on March 24. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Fresh off the big GeekWire AI summit, we unpack what they heard from...
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier T-Mobile confirmed it made an unspecified number of layoffs this week. A tipster told GeekWire the number was in the hundreds, which the company did not verify. “To move even faster in a dynamic market while continuing...
Screenshots of Kalshi ads and betting markets included in Washington state’s complaint. At right, an ad cited by the state shows a text conversation in which one person tells another they “found a way to bet on the NFL even though we live in Washington.” Updated below with...
Seattle-based data management firm Qumulo is looking across the Atlantic for its next phase of growth. The company announced Friday the launch of a new European software research and development and customer success hub in Cork, Ireland, a move expected to create 50 jobs over the next three...
The finalists for Workplace of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards, clockwise from top left: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2); Humanly, led by CEO Prem Kumar; Carbon Robotics, led by CEO Paul Mikesell; DAT Freight & Analytics; and the team at Yoodli. (GeekWire and company...
New Smartsheet executives, top row from left: Robson Grieve and Toyan Espeut. Bottom row: Pratima Arora and Kelsi McDonald Harris. (LinkedIn Photos) Enterprise software giant Smartsheet on Thursday announced four C-suite changes — two hires and two promotions. The Bellevue, Wash., company, which...
Offline Coffee Co. co-founders Lucy Kong, left, and Krystal Graylin behind the counter at the cafe in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (Sarah Goh Photo) The meeting was running long, so someone said what they always say: “let’s take this offline.” For Krystal Graylin, that phrase — hollow...
The view of Lake Washington and eastbound I-90 traffic out the window of Sound Transit’s Crosslake Connection Link light rail line as it heads west toward Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) As the train approached the bridge Thursday morning, it was hard to imagine what it...
The Washington Technology Industry Association held its Tech in Focus roundtable on March 25, 2026, in Seattle. (Ken Yeung Photo) Washington state may have everything it needs to become a global AI hub. The problem is, it hasn’t figured out how to say so, and its political and tech leaders agree...
(Bungie screenshot) By all indications, Bungie’s revival of its Marathon franchise should not have worked out. Despite a CEO’s departure, an indefinite delay, several controversies, and targeting a saturated genre, Marathon came out earlier this month and has become one of this year’s unexpected...
Seattle Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert is expected to open the season tonight against Cleveland. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Seattle Mariners open the 2026 season tonight at T-Mobile Park against the Cleveland Guardians. And perhaps the biggest question on the minds of fans, apart from...
An Edo employee connecting to a commercial building’s operating system. (Edo Photo / Patrick Martinez) A surge in electricity demand from data centers and AI use, compounded by more frequent extreme weather and wildfires, is finally putting Seattle startup Edo‘s 5-year-old mission in the...
Vijaye Raji, OpenAI’s CTO of applications and former CEO at Statsig, speaks at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event in Seattle on March 24. (GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) Vijaye Raji wanted to figure out how to keep up with the firehose of Slack messages. After a couple prompts, he had a...
Manfred Markevitch, co-founder and CEO of GemaTEG, pitches alongside judges, from left, Bryan Hale of Anthos Capital, Yifan Zhang of AI House, and T.A. McCann of Pioneer Square Labs during GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event in Seattle on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Big Tech...
The finalists for Innovation of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards. Clockwise from top: Starcloud; RevealDx; Alpenglow Biosciences; VerAvanti; and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (GeekWire / Company Photos) From the research lab to the healthcare clinic and all the way above Earth — the...
An Amazon Prime delivery van and a FedEx Ground van on a Seattle street. The two companies are expanding their rekindled partnership into returns. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon and FedEx are expanding their partnership after starting to patch things up last year. The companies...
GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation AI summit drew a full house to Block 41 in Seattle on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The debate over whether AI will transform industries is over. At GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation summit in Seattle on Tuesday, the founders, executives and...