Microsoft President Brad Smith during an event with President Biden on Wednesday in Wisconsin. (Screen grab via @POTUS) Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s job-creation efforts in the key...
From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. (Lexion Photo) Six years later, the floor inside a conference room at the AI2 Incubator in Seattle still shows signs of Gaurav Oberoi’s dedication to solving customer problems. This is...
The 2023 GeekWire Awards at Showbox SoDo in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The GeekWire Awards are back, and we’re looking forward to partying with Seattle’s tech community Thursday at Showbox SoDo. If you’re planning on attending the special event, read the FAQ below for key...
Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. (Photos courtesy of Predict.law) Predict.law, a stealthy new Seattle-area legal-tech startup, is using artificial intelligence to help attorneys and their law firms better predict the outcome of...
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire File Photo) Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he’s expecting a “positive outcome” from a potential vote this week in Seattle to move forward with a proposal that would revise recently implemented minimum pay requirements for...
Microsoft Graphic Microsoft released a new version of a study that has documented the transformation of work over the past few years, from the implications of remote and hybrid work to the rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace. Among the findings this year: AI usage has nearly...
A color-coded image based on Copernicus Sentinel satellite data shows the extent of the Antarctic ozone hole in September 2023. (ESA / DLR Graphic) NASA has selected four proposals for climate science missions, including an effort led by a University of Washington researcher, to go forward for...
An Amazon electric heavy-duty truck in San Bernardino, Calif. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is bulking up its fleet of electric vehicles beyond the delivery vans that many customers are accustomed to seeing in their neighborhoods. The company announced Tuesday that it has begun rolling out nearly 50...
Brad Gray. (LinkedIn Photo) Brad Gray is stepping down from NanoString after 14 years leading the Seattle biotech company as CEO. NanoString this week completed its acquisition to life sciences research and diagnostic giant Bruker, which bought the company’s assets for approximately $392.6...
FullContext co-founders Gordan Hempton (left) and Wes Hather. (LinkedIn Photos) A new Seattle startup led by the co-founders of sales software giant Outreach is using AI to automate initial customer interactions and provide personalized product demos for B2B companies. Gordon Hempton and Wes...
Technology Alliance CEO Laura Ruderman speaks during the 2024 State of Technology Luncheon in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) [Editor’s Note: This commentary was adapted from Technology Alliance CEO Laura Ruderman’s remarks at the organization’s annual State of Technology Luncheon on...
An artist’s conception shows the Otter Pup satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration) Months after Starfish Space said it was giving up on its plan to test its satellite docking system in orbit, due to a thruster failure, the Tukwila, Wash.-based startup managed to coax one last rendezvous out of...
Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder in action. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Seattle ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics has a new investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, to fuel the company’s AI-powered farming solutions. The amount of the funding was not disclosed. Carbon Robotics has...
Boeing’s Starliner space taxi sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, ready for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (ULA Photo) The first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi was postponed today due to concerns about a valve on the upper stage of United Launch...
Gaurav Oberoi, Lexion CEO, speaks during the 2023 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its...
Doulaye Kone, interim director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shows off a high-tech toilet featured in the “A Better Way to Go” exhibit. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) “Everyone poops,” declares the classic children’s book used by parents,...
Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon and is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. The University of...
Former longtime Starbucks chief Howard Schultz offered a number of suggestions to help the Seattle company rebound. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Howard Schultz has some suggestions to help boost Starbucks’ business. The Seattle coffee giant saw shares sink more than 12% last week...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $100 million to a new joint partnership that will support innovation and research that address global health challenges. The three-year initiative will focus on solutions geared to people in low and middle-income countries, and includes three...
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 April 28, 2024. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Fairway Bikes’ electric bike features a detachable battery with a 20-mile range and golf-related accessories. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) There are a few ways to get around a golf course. You can walk; you can use a pull cart; or you can drive a 2-passenger motorized cart. Now a new...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed in “The Everything War,” the new book by Dana Mattioli of the Wall Street Journal. We also revisit last week’s episode with Mattioli and share some of the reactions to...
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), left, speaks at the Technology Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle on May 3, 2024, with Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (center) and veteran Seattle tech leader Dave Cotter, right, who moderated the discussion. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor...
Driving home from the Technology Alliance annual lunch in Seattle today, we were momentarily distracted by the big orange billboard for Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot, overlooking Highway 99 / Aurora Avenue. Sure, tech billboards are commonplace in the Bay Area, but they’re a little more...
Maybe the escaped zebra is reading GeekWire, or building and posting another meme about himself. (Image generated with DALL-E prompt “Zebra working on a laptop.”) At the risk of beating a not-dead, just-missing zebra, here’s another story about the story that won’t quit this week. In case...
A wall in the new University of Washington CoMotion offices includes logos for some of the 285 companies that have spun out of the program. (GeekWire Photos / Lisa Stiffler) The University of Washington this week held an open house to celebrate the new headquarters of CoMotion, the UW...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) This is the text of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s internal memo sent to employees Friday, May 3, about the company’s new security initiatives, expanding on Microsoft Security leader Charlie Bell’s...
Charlie Bell, executive vice president of Microsoft security, speaks at the GeekWire Summit in 2022. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches,...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is rolled out from the company’s Florida factory for tests. (Blue Origin Photo) The first Friday in May is National Space Day, which makes today a fitting time to announce a contest that will give eight students an opportunity to tour Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket...
Summit for Under-Represented Founders keynote speaker Aina Abiodun, president of VertueLab, speaks at an event held April 29 at Venture Mechanics’ Bellevue, Wash., venue. (Venture Mechanics Photo) When Techstars suddenly pulled up stakes from Seattle earlier this year, Ron Wiener saw an...
And artist’s rendering of “Super Nintendo World” at Universal Orlando Resort. (Universal Image) Video game fans will be able to step inside the worlds of Super Mario and Donkey Kong in a new “Super Nintendo World” theme park experience opening in Orlando, Fla., next year. The Nintendo...
From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Xiao; and Mason CTO John Thimsen. (Mason Photo) Mason, a Seattle startup that offers a hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new...
Members of the Creative Destruction Lab team in Seattle. Back row, from left: Macey McGovern (Seattle), Dhwani Patel (Seattle), Emer Dooley (Seattle), Ramzy Huneidi (Seattle), Carter McDonald (Vancouver). Front row: Lauren Cheung (Seattle), Amy Lippman (Seattle), Jon Haun (Vancouver), Jimmy Ye...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s comments about unions during this 2022 interview on CNBC were among the public statements cited in a complaint against the company with the National Labor Relations Board. It was legal for Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to say that unionization would make it tougher for...
This visualization shows the solar system trajectories of asteroids discovered by ADAM and THOR. (Credit: B612 Asteroid Institute / Univ. of Wash. DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace Project) A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified...