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Amazon expands package return network with new Goodwill partnership in Seattle area
November 19, 2025
Amazon’s new package return kiosk is advertised at a Goodwill store in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Amazon is rolling out return kiosks at Goodwill stores across the Seattle area, giving customers a new way to drop off packages. It’s the latest step in Amazon’s push to...
Layoffs at PNNL impact 68 employees at national lab sites across Pacific Northwest
November 19, 2025
(PNNL Photo) Battelle Memorial Institute, the government contractor operating Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is laying off 68 workers based primarily in Washington state. The layoffs were disclosed in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the...
Seattle startup Desk raises cash to automate real estate contract work with ‘better-than-human’ AI
November 19, 2025
Desk co-founders Gideon Sylvan (left) and Stewart Renehan. (Desk Photos) AI won’t replace real estate agents completely. But it will accelerate how they do their work. That’s part of the bet behind Seattle startup Desk, which has raised $800,000 to help real estate agents offload contract...
Uncommon Thinkers: Brian Pinkard looks for impact, from flipping rocks to destroying ‘forever chemicals’
November 19, 2025
Brian Pinkard on the summit of Washington’s Mount Shuksan in the summer of 2025. (Tyler Gottschalk Photo) Editor’s note: This series profiles six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive...
Icertis acquires legal tech startup Dioptra to boost contract automation tools
November 19, 2025
Bellevue, Wash.-based Icertis has acquired Y Combinator grad Dioptra to accelerate its push toward AI-driven contract automation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dioptra adds tools for automated playbook creation, risk reviews, and redlining — capabilities aimed at speeding contract...
Allen Family Philanthropies giving nearly $7M to Seattle Center nonprofits to boost arts access
November 19, 2025
Audience members during a KEXP Concerts at the Mural at Seattle Center. (Amber Knecht Photo) A group of Seattle nonprofits aiming to boost exposure to and participation in the arts among young people will receive nearly $7 million in funding from Allen Family Philanthropies. The organizations...
Read AI steps into the real world with new system for capturing everyday work chatter
November 19, 2025
Read AI’s apps, including its new Android app, now include the ability to record impromptu in-person meetings. (Read AI Images) Read AI, which made its mark analyzing online meetings and messages, is expanding its focus beyond the video call and the email inbox to the physical world, in a sign...
19 startups selected for WTIA’s 13th Founder Cohort Accelerator Program
November 18, 2025
The kickoff for the 13th WTIA Founder Cohort. (WTIA Photo) The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced a batch of 19 startups that will be taking place in the nonprofit’s 13th WTIA Founder Cohort Accelerator Program on Tuesday. Part of the WTIA Startup Program, the Founder...
Washington state cities turn off license plate reader cameras amid ruling on data access
November 18, 2025
Cameras made by Flock Safety are used to automatically capture images of license plates on passing vehicles. (Flock Safety Photo) Cameras that automatically capture images of vehicle license plates are being turned off by police in jurisdictions across Washington state, in part after a court...
UJET acquires Seattle conversational analytics startup Spiral to boost AI customer service tools
November 18, 2025
Sprial CEO Elena Zhizhimontova. (LinkedIn Photo) UJET, a San Francisco-based company that sells AI-powered contact center technology, has acquired Spiral, a Seattle startup that helps businesses analyze customer conversations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Spiral will operate as...
University of Washington lands $10M from billionaire Charles Simonyi to tackle AI in the classroom
November 18, 2025
Lisa and Charles Simonyi are giving $10 million to the University of Washington to launch AI@UW. (UW Photo) The University of Washington today announced a $10 million gift from Microsoft pioneer Charles Simonyi and his wife, Lisa Simonyi, to launch AI@UW, a campus-wide initiative supporting...
Does your AI have an ID? Microsoft looks to document the digital workforce with new ‘Agent 365’
November 18, 2025
A registration line at a 2024 Microsoft developer conference. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Satya Nadella recently foreshadowed a major shift in the company’s business — saying the tech giant will increasingly build its products and infrastructure not just for human users, but for...
Microsoft to invest $5B in Anthropic, as Claude maker commits $30B to Azure in new Nvidia alliance
November 18, 2025
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discuss the new partnership. The frenzy of AI deals and cloud partnerships reached another zenith Tuesday morning as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic announced a surprise alliance that includes a $5 billion...
This Seattle startup is rethinking spreadsheets for CPG brands — and giving away its product for free
November 18, 2025
Peasy co-founders Bryan Mitchiner (left) and Ryan Conti. (Peasy Photos) A new Seattle-based startup called Peasy has raised a $2 million pre-seed round to challenge the status quo for independent consumer-goods brands — and it’s doing it by giving software away for free. The company, founded...
Zap Energy exceeds Mariana Trench-level pressures in pursuit of limitless clean power
November 18, 2025
Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 reactor hit new milestones for creating pressure 10-times higher than the Mariana Trench. (Zap Photo) Zap Energy shared news that its fusion device has generated a pressure that’s roughly 10,000 times the atmospheric pressure at sea level, or 10 times the pressure at the...
Seattle startup Meadow AI emerges from stealth with $6M to help physical retailers monitor operations
November 17, 2025
The team at Meadow AI, from left: Dragos Velicanu, co-founder & CTO; David Chapman, head of design; Bradley Riley, customer success & operations; Abbas Guvenilir, co-founder & COO (back); Max Jai Sim, co-founder & CEO; Scott Liu, co-founder & CPO. (Meadow AI Photo) Seattle-based Meadow AI is...
Scientists create a supercomputer simulation that can reveal how the brain works, neuron by neuron
November 17, 2025
This color-coded representation of a mouse cortex simulates the activity of brain cells. (Video via Allen Institute) Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held...
Ford partners with Amazon to sell certified pre-owned cars on tech giant’s marketplace
November 17, 2025
(Ford Photo) Amazon is making more moves in the auto industry with a new partnership with Ford, allowing customers to buy certified preowned vehicles from the Detroit automaker directly on Amazon.com. Shoppers in Los Angeles, Seattle and Dallas can browse certified Ford inventory from...
Amazon’s surprise indie hit: Kiro launches broadly in bid to reshape AI-powered software development
November 17, 2025
Kiro’s ghost mascot assists an action-figure developer on a miniature set during a stop-motion video shoot in Seattle, part of an unconventional social marketing campaign for Amazon’s AI-powered software development tool. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Can the software development hero conquer...
Last chance for GeekWire Gala early bird tickets — join Seattle’s biggest holiday party
November 17, 2025
The GeekWire Gala at Showbox SoDo in Seattle last year. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The holiday party season is about to ramp up and you won’t want to miss the tech community’s biggest celebration — the GeekWire Gala. Early bird ticket prices for the event end this Thursday so make sure...
PowerLattice, a new semiconductor startup backed by former Intel CEO, raises $25M
November 17, 2025
PowerLattice founders, from left: Gang Ren, Dr. Peng Zou, and Sujith Dermal. (PowerLattice / Walden Kirsch Photo) PowerLattice, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup aiming to reduce energy demands of AI computing, emerged from stealth mode this week and announced a $25 million Series A...
Jeff Bezos takes co-CEO role at secretive AI startup Project Prometheus
November 17, 2025
Jeff Bezos in New York City on Sept. 20, 2021 to announce $1 billion in grants from the Bezos Earth Fund. (Bezos Earth Fund Photo) Jeff Bezos is a startup CEO again. The Amazon founder is co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, according to The...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 9, 2025
November 16, 2025
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 Nov. 9, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Real revenue, actual value, and a little froth: Read AI CEO David Shim on the emerging AI economy
November 15, 2025
Read AI CEO David Shim discusses the state of the AI economy in a conversation with GeekWire co-founder John Cook during a recent Accenture dinner event for the “Agents of Transformation” series. (GeekWire Photo / Holly Grambihler) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent...
Tech Moves: J&J exec joins logistics startup Auger; WTIA adds public policy leader; and more
November 14, 2025
Yuqing Sun. (LinkedIn Photo) Auger, a startup building logistics and supply chain software, announced Yuqing Sun as its chief data and AI enablement officer. Sun joins the Bellevue, Wash.-based company from Johnson & Johnson where she has worked for nearly 20 years in a variety of supply chain,...
The rise and fall of Rad Power Bikes: From breakout success to the brink of shutdown
November 14, 2025
Rad Power Bikes HQ this week in Seattle. The company’s office in the Ballard neighborhood also includes a retail store and service shop on the first floor. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) What happened to Rad Power Bikes? That’s the question on many minds in Seattle and...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launches twin probes on trip to Mars — and scores a booster touchdown
November 13, 2025
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket rises from its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin Photo via Dave Limp / X) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent twin orbiters on the first leg of their journey to Mars today, marking a successful sequel to January’s first liftoff of the company’s heavy-lift New...
Former startup CFO convicted of wire fraud for moving $35M in company funds to crypto side business
November 13, 2025
Nevin Shetty. (Fabric Photo) The former chief financial officer of onetime Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric has been convicted of four counts of wire fraud for taking and misusing around $35 million from his former employer. Nevin Shetty, 41, of Mercer Island, Wash., was found guilty on Nov....
Seattle’s long history of hardware heartbreak: Big raises, high hopes, hard landings
November 13, 2025
Image created by ChatGPT based on the text of this column. Editor’s Note: GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook created this column by recording themselves discussing the topic, asking AI to draft a piece based on their conversation, and then reviewing and editing the copy before...
Analysis: Valve’s new Steam Hardware projects are a potential challenge to Microsoft and Meta
November 13, 2025
The Steam Machine, 2026 edition. (Valve Photo) In the wake of the success of the Steam Deck, a portable gaming PC aimed at a casual audience, it was inevitable that Valve Software would dip its hands back into the hardware market. It just wasn’t expected quite this soon, or that Valve would pick...
Cisco to acquire Seattle-area AI startup NeuralFabric, expanding push into enterprise generative AI
November 13, 2025
Cisco plans to acquire NeuralFabric, a Seattle-area startup founded by a group of Microsoft veterans that makes back-end software for companies to build and run their own generative AI models. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Silicon Valley enterprise tech mainstay said the deal will...
‘Project Kuiper’ no more: Amazon renames satellite internet venture ‘Leo’ on path to commercial debut
November 13, 2025
(Amazon Image) Amazon is rebranding its ambitious effort to expand global access to high-speed internet: Project Kuiper will now be known as Amazon Leo. The Seattle-based tech giant announced Thursday that it was renaming its satellite broadband project in the midst of deploying the equipment...
Inside Microsoft’s new ‘Experience Center One’: What we learned at the edge of the AI frontier
November 13, 2025
An interactive portal at Microsoft’s new Experience Center One grounds visitors in scenes of nature. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series and 2026 event, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the people, companies, and ideas...
Allen Institute taps AWS, Google to spur ‘aha moments’ in neuroscience with new brain research platform
November 13, 2025
Different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted with high specificity by one of the new genetic tools developed at the Allen Institute. (Allen Institute Image) The Allen Institute in Seattle has released the Brain Knowledge Platform, a research aid described...
Redfin partners with Sierra on new AI-powered conversational search for homebuyers
November 13, 2025
A conversation with the new Redfin chatbot for home shoppers. (Screenshot via Redfin) Real estate brokerage platform Redfin released a conversational chatbot to help house hunters search for homes using natural language. The tool lets users describe what they want and refine...
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