Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot Digit carries a tote. (Agility Robotics Photo) Salem, Ore.-based Agility Robotics, whose two-legged Digit robots have been tested inside Amazon warehouses, is set to become the first publicly traded U.S. company dedicated solely to humanoid robots, beating its...
Aerial view of Microsoft data center campus in Wisconsin. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to levels when it opened its...
The superyacht Zen arrives in the Ballard Locks in Seattle on Tuesday evening. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) It’s 100 feet shorter and $100 million cheaper than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht, but another billionaire’s ship had no trouble drawing attention in Seattle on...
Team DuggAI, from left: Ashish Naik, Shaurya Duggal and Kruthik Ankam, hoist the championship trophy at the 2026 TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Global Pitch Competition in Bellevue, Wash. (TYE Photo) A team of Seattle-area high school students won the 2026 TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Global...
Seattle Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch, center, rides a Lime Glider in downtown Seattle during the march to the match ahead of the USA vs. Australia FIFA World Cup contest on Friday, June 19. (Seattle Department of Transportation Photo) Lime went full Beastmode for last Friday’s FIFA World Cup...
Brendan Burns, Microsoft technical fellow and a co-founder of Kubernetes. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is promising relief to engineers who get woken up at 3 a.m. for outages and other cloud glitches: an agent informed by its years of experience running Azure, designed to diagnose whatever’s...
Mike Jackson. (LinkedIn Photo) — Mike Jackson has been promoted to chief digital safety officer at Microsoft, a role within the company’s Trusted Technology Group that includes oversight of children’s safety, tech responsibility and international regulatory work. In a LinkedIn post, he called...
A prototype of Codey, a humanoid social robot developed by Seattle-area startup Mind Children Robotics. (Mind Children Photos) At a recent robotics event in New York, a young girl hid behind her mother when she first saw Codey. The robot broke the ice by complimenting the girl’s shirt, and 45...
The Steam Machine 2026: a full gaming PC in a six-inch black cube. (Valve Software press image) Valve Software abruptly opened reservations for its latest Steam Machine on Monday, but due to the ongoing PC component shortage, did so at a significantly higher price than expected. The company,...
Fervo Energy’s Cape Station geothermal energy plant in Utah should start producing power this year. (Fervo Photo) The idea is so simple: generating power from the heat trapped beneath the Earth’s crust. It’s clean, renewable and potentially abundant. The challenge is how to map what lies beneath...
Sam Altman at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco in 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon’s latest film drama isn’t a movie that it’s producing or streaming, but rather the situation surrounding a project it has dropped. Amazon MGM Studios has backed away from “Artificial,” a nearly...
Sila CEO and co-founder Gene Berdichevsky, left, and Chris Dougher, Sila’s VP of operations, at the startup’s Moses Lake facility. (Sila Photo) Sila raised its first round of funding in September 2011 — the same month solar power manufacturer Solyndra went bankrupt, sullying the sustainability...
Pregame ceremonies in Seattle on June 19, 2026, before the U.S.-Australia World Cup Group D match. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) In soccer, a single blown offside call can decide who advances and who goes home. But what can you do? Referees are only human. Well, the 2026 World Cup has put...
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 June 14, 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: Anthropic takes its most powerful models offline after a U.S. order, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly contributing to the concerns that helped trigger it. We talk about what it was like to use one of those models, Claude Fable, while it was available, and...
Protesters outside the Spheres on Amazon’s Seattle campus Thursday evening. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Carrying bullhorns and signs depicting Amazon executives as war criminals, about two dozen people protested outside the Amazon Spheres in Seattle on Thursday evening, calling on the company...
GeekWire File Photo An employee group filed a civil rights complaint against Amazon with the City of Seattle on Thursday on behalf of three engineers who allege that the company is wrongly investigating them for testifying before the Seattle City Council in favor of regulating data centers....
A Yoodli.ai cardboard sign is visible at right during Fox’s FIFA World Cup broadcast on Thursday from Seattle, featuring, from left, Rob Stone, Stu Holden, Clint Dempsey, and Alexi Lalas. (Screen grab via Fox Sports) When a startup town turns into a soccer town attracting worldwide attention,...
Apacendo Health co-founders Chong Sun, left, and Jonathan Lin. (Apacendo Health Photo) Each year, more than 130,000 people reach kidney failure. It’s the most advanced and expensive stage of a disease that affects 37 million Americans, 90% of whom don’t know they have it. The tools being used...
Brian Hall (LinkedIn Photo) — Former Microsoft, Amazon and Google exec Brian Hall is now chief marketing officer for Mistral — and he’s bullish on the move. “I think this could be the most interesting marketing job in the world,” Hall said on LinkedIn. Mistral is a Paris-based enterprise AI...
The managing directors of Seattle’s AI House, from left: Yifan Zhang, Jacob Colker, and Sri Chandrasekar. (AI House Photo) AI2 Incubator has spent the past 12 years building AI companies in Seattle. Now it’s taking the name of the community it built around that work, rebranding today as AI House...
Gradial co-founders, from left: Anish Chadalavada, Deip Kumar, Doug Tallmadge, and Anup Chamrajnagar. (Gradial Photo) Seattle startup Gradial continued its hot funding streak, raising another $65 million for its agentic AI platform that automates enterprise marketing. The Series C round was...
Dan Lewis, co-founder and former CEO of Convoy, is launching a stealth AI startup after leaving Microsoft. (GeekWire File Photo) Dan Lewis, co-founder and former CEO of the online freight marketplace Convoy, has left Microsoft to start a new company focused on one of the most expensive problems...
Devplan co-founders Chris Bee, CEO, left, and Anton Safonov, CTO. (Devplan Photo) Devplan, a Seattle startup trying to automate away the meetings and status reports that eat up a product team’s week, is coming out of stealth Thursday with $2.5 million in seed funding. The company, founded by...
Is video-game industry leader Gabe Newell getting ready to vacate the Seattle area for sunny South Florida like some of his billionaire contemporaries? Reports of a luxury property purchase raise the question. According to The Wall Street Journal, Newell, CEO and co-founder of Valve Corp.,...
Vedana’s lealdership team, from left: Dr. Rob Lenz, board chair; Leon Garcia, co-founder and chief scientific officer; Anurag Agarwal, co-founder and CEO; and Dr. Ernesto Aycardi, chief medical officer. (Vedana Photo) Vedana Therapeutics, a Seattle-based startup aiming to prevent migraine...
Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of agentic AI, shows the Amazon Quick knowledge graph at the AWS Summit in New York. (Screenshot via live stream) Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users, capable of everything from fixing security...
The Solius Pro hangs on a wall, scans a user’s skin and directs appropriate UVB light therapy. (Solius Photo) A Seattle-area startup that once asked people to step inside a glowing kiosk for light therapy is now bringing that same technology into the home. Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based...
Magda Balazinska, director of the UW Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, at an event last year. (GeekWire Photo) As students, teachers and employers wrestle with the demands of an increasingly AI-powered world, the University of Washington has a new proposition: an interdisciplinary...
Robbie Cape, then CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards in 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Robbie Cape has been hinting for months that something was coming. Now he’s ready to say what it is. The...
The flags of Belgium, left, and Egypt are represented in the night sky near the Space Needle in Seattle after the teams tied 1-1 in a FIFA World Cup match on Monday. (Roman Yuferev Photo) Egypt and Belgium played to a 1-1 draw in a FIFA World Cup matchup in Seattle on Monday. Fans who looked to...
TerraPower’s lab tests the equipment and processes for next-generation nuclear reactors. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) TerraPower, the Bellevue, Wash.-based nuclear energy company, announced Tuesday the opening of a subsidiary office in the United Kingdom as it pursues its first...
Elon Musk celebrates the SpaceX IPO last week. (Nasdaq Photo) Shares of SpaceX surged Tuesday morning, pushing the Elon Musk-led company above Amazon and into a neck-and-neck race with Microsoft for the title of the world’s fourth-most valuable public company, less than a week after its...
An aerial view of Orion, Helion Energy’s planned fusion plant being built in Malaga, Wash. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy announced Tuesday that it’s the first company in the world to receive regulatory licenses for a fusion power facility. The Everett, Wash.-based startup broke ground last year...
Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of agentic AI, on stage at AWS re:Invent in December. (Amazon Photo / Noah Berger) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents. See coverage of our related...