Seattle's Avalanche Energy announced $29 million to support its push toward fusion power and to help launch a commercial-scale testing facility for fusion technologies. Read More
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology will keep working at third-party locations after the company discontinues Amazon One palm scanning in June, the company confirmed Monday. Customers will tap a card or phone instead. Read More
Forgive us if visions of deep Super Bowl passes have given way to talk of deep Seattle-area pockets as reports keep emerging about a potential sale of the team. Read More
Software development roles account for the largest share of the layoffs, with engineering management, program management, and technical product roles also hit hard. Read More
T-Mobile is laying off 393 employees spanning more than 200 different job titles, from analysts, engineers and technicians to directors and managers. Read More
Microsoft beat its own forecast. Revenue rose 17%. Cloud crossed $50 billion. So why did the stock fall 10%, erasing $357 billion in market value? We dig into the numbers behind the company's worst post-earnings drop in 13 years. Read More
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 25, 2026. Read More
Alan Boyle / GeekWire: Amazon asks the FCC for a 2-year extension until July 30, 2028, to deploy half of the 3,232 satellites for its Leo internet system, citing a rocket shortage — Amazon says it's been harder than expected to secure rides for its Amazon Leo broadband internet satellites, and now it's asking …
In bullish regulatory filing, SpaceX says huge satellite constellation would be a first step toward 'ensuring humanity's multiplanetary future amongst the stars.' Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We hit the road for a driving tour of the week’s news, making stops… Read More
When Gino Palileo moved to Seattle from the Philippines in 2015, his first job in his new city was at an ice cream shop at the waterfront ferry terminal. Watching the green and white ferries crisscross Elliott Bay was the beginning of a lasting appreciation for vessels. Read More
Amazon says it’s been harder than expected to secure rides for its Amazon Leo broadband internet satellites, and now it’s… Read More
In a statement Friday, the Kent, Wash.-based company said the move as aligning with U.S. government goals to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a long-term human presence there. Read More
Samir Bodas, co-founder of contract management software company Icertis, passed this week following a battle with cancer. He was 61. Friends and colleagues remember a leader who put culture and values at the center of one of the region's most successful startups. Read More
The Seattle-based real estate company said the cuts — which represent about 2% of Zillow's overall headcount — were part of the annual review process. Read More
Almost 60 years after America won the first space race, the moon is once again the focus of a competition… Read More
Seattle startup Electric Era landed $4.28 million in National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding to install five charging stations in Washington. Read More
An Amazon Leo VP announced his retirement, a former partner from Madrona is taking a "builder" role at Anthropic, and other Pacific Northwest personnel changes. Read More
Amazon's grocery experiment is ending this week. For bargain hunters, it's a clearance sale. For one Seattle neighborhood, it's a looming food desert. Read More
The streaming option, through the MLB app, will be offered at $99.99 per year or $19.99 per month. Read More
Seattle-based Interlune is raising additional investment to support its campaign to identify and extract resources on the moon that can… Read More
A cloud of economic uncertainty is hanging over the region following big job cuts at Amazon and elsewhere. Some are calling it the scariest time since 2009's Great Recession. Read More
Describe your mood, get a drink. Starbucks is building an AI "ordering companion" that translates cravings into customized recipes. We're calling it vibe coffee. Read More
The startup is betting on a "pay once, play anywhere" model — players buy a game one time and can play it across PC, console, and mobile devices. Read More
Arkero, a Seattle-area startup focused on using AI to help manage the day-to-day operations of sports organizations, raised $6 million… Read More
Seattle's Mast Reforestation has engineered a solution for disposing trees destroyed in wildfires, locking away their carbon and helping recover the damaged woods. Read More
LinkedIn crossed $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, putting Microsoft's 2016 acquisition on a $20 billion annual pace. Video ads on the professional network grew 30% as LinkedIn leans into short-form content. Read More
Microsoft’s big financial bet on artificial intelligence got even bigger in the December quarter, but it also showed continued signs… Read More
Amazon will lay off approximately 400 workers in Washington state as part of its decision to close all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores across the country, according to a notice filed with the state Employment Security Department on Wednesday. Read More
Ginger Armbruster found herself on the other side of a breach when she discovered a fraudster had used her leaked information to open a sham bank account. Read More
A variety of roles will be impacted, including product managers, software development engineers, user experience designers, data engineers, content designers, and others. Read More
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's blend of bigger staffing rosters and AI-powered tools appears to be easing the mobile order bottleneck that former CEO Howard Schultz called the company's "biggest Achilles heel." Read More
Several startup leaders voiced opposition during public testimony on Tuesday against a proposed bill that would expand the state's capital gains tax. Read More
Seattle-based Rover Group has acquired Meowtel, a cat-focused pet-sitting marketplace, as the company expands deeper into specialized care for pet owners. Read More
AZX, a startup building bespoke AI solutions, has raised $6 million and reports a 10-fold revenue spike over the past year. Read More
Amazon is laying off another 16,000 corporate employees globally, the company confirmed Wednesday morning, the second phase in a restructuring that now totals 30,000 positions — marking the largest workforce reduction in the company's history. Read More
Amazon is winding down its Amazon One palm recognition service as the company retreats from physical retail experiments. Read More
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins — Amazon is discontinuing its Amazon One palm recognition ID system for stores later this year, the company said in messages to users Tuesday night.
The closure of the Amazon Go and Fresh stores is the end of an era for the online giant. We trace how Amazon got here — and why the only stores left are the chain it acquired. Read More
The 20-year-old real estate company, under new parent Rocket Companies, released a teaser video for a Super Bowl ad that will feature Lady Gaga performing the Mister Rogers classic "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" Read More
Shares of F5 were up more than 13% in after-hours trading after the Seattle-based security giant beat fiscal first quarter… Read More
Some industry leaders and hobbyists are alarmed by potential restrictions on 3D printing and CNC milling. Read More
Microsoft is heading into its earnings report this week facing what one analyst calls a "prove it" moment, with investors looking for signs that its massive AI bet is translating into sustained cloud growth. Read More
Dr. Johnathan Lancaster is now president of Truveta, Veeam adds to its executive lineup, and Fortive expand its C-suite. Read More
Next-gen battery materials company Group14 last week furloughed an undisclosed number of employees at its unfinished facility in Moses Lake, Wash., as rival Sila expects to start production this spring. Read More
The Seattle nonprofit built its new open-source coding agent with 32 GPUs and five researchers, a fraction of the resources used by big tech companies. Read More
After a decade of experimentation and expansion, the company says it wasn't able to find the right model for its Amazon-branded grocery and convenience stores. Read More
A new proposal to expand the capital gains tax in Washington state is drawing concern from startup leaders who say it could undercut incentives for building companies in the region. Read More
South Florida-based Life Electric Vehicles was the winning bidder, and subject to court approval, will acquire all Rad inventory, intellectual property and more. Read More
Online posts indicate that the layoffs impacted workers around the Seattle region and other locations. Read More