Nevin Shetty. (Fabric File Photo) The former chief financial officer for Seattle-area retail software company Fabric was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle Thursday to two years in prison for a wire fraud scheme that involved the misuse of $35 million from his former employer. Nevin...
A lounge area at OpenAI’s new Bellevue office. (Trevor Tondro Photo for OpenAI) OpenAI officially opened its new engineering office in downtown Bellevue, Wash., on Thursday, unveiling a retro-modern, wood-paneled space for its 250 employees in the region — with enough room in the tower to...
Pablo Casilimas (left), founding partner at OneSixOne Ventures, with Sudheesh Nair, co-founder and CEO of TinyFish. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The AI moment is not just another tech cycle — it’s one of the best openings founders have seen in years. That was the message from Sudheesh...
The CPRight team, from left: Shubham Bansal, Deeya Sharma, Prisha Hemani, and Atharv Dixit with their Holloman Health Innovation Challenge winnings at the University of Washington in Seattle this week. (UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship Photo / Matt Hagen) A team of students from the...
(Xbox Image) In the days leading up to one of the games industry’s bigger trade conferences, Microsoft has quietly unveiled the code name for its next-generation Xbox console: Project Helix. The name appeared without initial fanfare in a post on X on Thursday morning. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma,...
Bridget Perry. (LinkedIn Photo) — Amperity, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies collect and manage customer data, named Bridget Perry as chief marketing officer. Earlier in her career, Perry was a marketing director for Microsoft for nearly nine years and worked for more than eight...
The Sub Pop location on 7th Avenue in Seattle, with Amazon’s Spheres visible across the street. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Longtime Seattle independent record label Sub Pop Records is leaving Amazonia. The company announced via social media on Thursday that its retail store at 2130 7th...
Grayson Shor, far right, at a recent Pacific Northwest Battery Collaborative meet up at a Seattle brewery on Capitol Hill. Shor launched the organization to help the sector build connections. (PNWBC Photo) Grayson Shor, founder and executive director of the Pacific Northwest Battery...
Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes makes a variety of electric bicycle styles. (Rad Power Bikes Photo) Rad Power Bikes‘ run as an independent electric bike manufacturer is over, but the brand will live on following the closure of the Seattle-based company’s acquisition by Life Electric Vehicles...
Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Washington lawmakers are considering ending a sales tax break for data center owners when they replace equipment, a move that would take effect July 1, 2026, and apply statewide. While Senate Bill 6231 would retain the sales tax break...
Amazon Connect Health uses natural language to schedule appointments, accessing the health record system in real time. (Amazon Image) Amazon Web Services is expanding into AI for healthcare, launching a new agentic system that can handle patient calls, document clinical visits and automatically...
A worker waits for a Hercules drive to move another fabric shelving unit into place at a workstation inside Amazon’s AUS2 fulfillment center. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is laying off an undisclosed number of employees from its robotics division. Business Insider first reported...
From top left, clockwise: Tambo CEO Michael Magán, The Carry CEO Esther Sedgwick; Logcat CEO Varun Chitre; Rockhood CEO Monica Li; Color42 CEO Prince Bajracharya; Tarka CEO Dan Moore. From fitness equipment to voice AI agents to autonomous debugging, our latest Startup Radar spotlight features...
Construction of TerraPower’s full-scale demonstration nuclear plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. (TerraPower Photo) Bill Gates-backed TerraPower is the first in the nation to receive federal approval to build its next-generation nuclear power plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its...
A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft flown by SeaPort Airlines parked in Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday. (SeaPort Airlines Photo) A hop across Washington state will get a little easier next week with the start of daily flights between Seattle’s Boeing Field and Spokane’s Felts Field from regional airline...
Starbucks headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Starbucks plans to open a corporate office in Nashville, Tenn., impacting some Seattle-based jobs related to the coffee giant’s North American supply-chain operations. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces the launch of xAI’s Grok on Azure AI Foundry last year. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft’s move to partner with Elon Musk’s xAI while simultaneously being sued by the tech mogul has gone beyond mere irony to become potential courtroom evidence. In...
Rivian vehicles. (Amazon Photo) Washington lawmakers are racing to pass legislation to let Rivian and Lucid sell their EVs directly to consumers. The push follows years of dealership opposition — and Rivian’s threat to bypass legislators entirely with a November ballot initiative. The Senate...
(Photo by Felix Mooneeram on Unsplash) IPIC Theaters plans to permanently close its Redmond, Wash., movie theater on April 28, according to a WARN notice filed with Washington state regulators. The upscale movie theater chain notified state officials on Feb. 23 that all operations at the...
The Seattle skyline from Lake Union. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) It feels like every couple of days I stop in my tracks somewhere in Seattle and find myself questioning why on earth I’d want to live anywhere else. It also seems like I read every few days — on GeekWire — about the next...
The Legislative Building in Olympia, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) A Washington state bill requiring utilities and data center companies to create agreements that protect rate payers from increased power costs and brings transparency to the environmental impacts of the facilities has...
Dave Parker and Kathy Cox. (Photos courtesy of Trajectory Playbook) Seattle tech veteran Dave Parker‘s techniques for empowering early stage entrepreneurs has a new playbook. The longtime startup founder, leader and advisor, in partnership with strategist and educator Kathy Cox, announced the...
TheFounderVC team, from left: Paul Longhenry, Mia Lewin, and Shail Kaveti. Not pictured: Jay Bartot. (TFVC Photo) TheFounderVC (TFVC), a new early stage fund based in Seattle and San Francisco, announced the public launch Tuesday of its inaugural $5 million fund. The firm is focused on...
Ziff Davis has agreed to sell its Connectivity division — which includes Ookla, the Seattle-based network analytics company known for its flagship Speedtest app — to Accenture in a $1.2 billion deal announced Tuesday. Ziff Davis acquired Ookla in 2014. The company’s Connectivity division...
Amazon’s new dynamic canvas in Seller Central shows product expansion opportunities alongside the Seller Assistant chat interface. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is adding a new layer to its AI tools for online sellers, rolling out a feature that provides customized, interactive dashboards and scenario...
Doosan GridTech plans to lay off 18 employees connected to its Bellevue, Wash., office, according to a new notice filed with Washington state regulators. The job cuts are expected to begin May 1. Doosan GridTech, part of South Korea’s Doosan group, develops software for energy storage systems....
MicroVision plans to lay off 49 employees at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters in a series of job cuts starting in late April, according to a new regulatory filing with Washington state. The cuts are heavily concentrated in engineering and technical roles. Several senior-level positions —...
Agents of Transformation speakers, from left: Charles Lamanna of Microsoft; Deepak Singh of Amazon; and Angela Garinger of Outreach. Early bird ticket pricing ends this week for GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation, a half-day summit in Seattle that will explore how agentic AI is redefining...
One eye on AI: How much of the technology should a seventh grader be using and understanding? (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) I recently asked my 13-year-old daughter, a Seattle Public Schools seventh grader, how much she was currently learning about and/or using artificial intelligence. “Not...
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A photo sequence shows the total lunar eclipse of March 14, 2025. (Sky & Telescope Photo / Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson). Tonight’s full moon will turn into a red moon during the last total lunar eclipse we’ll be able to see for the next two years — but whether we’ll truly be able to see...
Elizabeth Scallon. (LinkedIn Photo) — Elizabeth Scallon, a longtime leader in Seattle’s startup ecosystem, has left HP after serving for nearly four years as director of technical and business incubation and strategy. “At HP, I had the privilege of diving deep into technologies ranging from...
Baiju Bhatt, founder and CEO of Aetherflux. (LinkedIn Photo) Aetherflux, a Bay Area-based space startup, is expanding to Seattle to open what it calls a “core center for satellite development.” In a post on LinkedIn last week, Aetherflux said its team is growing and the company is currently...
The Seattle skyline. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle tech leaders are warning that a new income tax proposal could stall the region’s momentum in artificial intelligence. In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Bob Ferguson, a group of AI researchers, founders, and investors argue that...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced a multi-year strategic partnership on Friday that includes a $50 billion investment from Amazon into the AI company. (GeekWire File Photos) Amazon’s OpenAI investment and cloud partnership made big headlines Friday, but the...