Paxton leadership, from left: Michael Ulin, co-founder and CTO; Jen Paau, COO; and Tanguy Chau, co-founder and CEO. (Paxton Photo) Paxton, a Bend, Ore.-based legal tech startup, raised $22 million…
Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations for revenue and profits in its latest quarter. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft says it’s generating revenue from its artificial intelligence products and services at a…
Installation of a Modern Hydrogen methane pyrolysis device at NW Natural, a natural gas public utility in Portland, Ore. (Modern Hydrogen Photo) As President Trump is disrupting clean energy deployments,…
Smartsheet’s Praerit Garg. (LinkedIn Photo) Praerit Garg is excited about going to work, thanks to artificial intelligence, which he refers to as “a gift.” The president of product and innovation at…
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is developing a broadband satellite network to rival SpaceX Starlink. In this 2023 photo, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket lifts off with two prototype Amazon satellites.…
Amish Patel, left, and Susan Paley of Conduit Venture Labs. (Conduit Venture Labs Photos) Conduit Venture Labs, a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused…
Oumi co-founders Manos Koukoumidis, left, and Oussama Elachqar. (Oumi Photo) A new startup out of Seattle wants to open up the “black box” of foundational AI models in a bid…
Canvas leadership, from left, back row: Meena Srinivasan, fractional CFO; Sarah Bird, CEO; Zoe Silverman, head of people; Dianne Hallock, chief revenue officer. Front row: Anton Yakubenko, chief product officer;…
Redfin reports that downtown Seattle rents rose 2.5% year over year in December to a median $2,000. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The median asking rent for an apartment in…
Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report comes amid new questions about AI spending. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Reporting quarterly earnings Wednesday afternoon, it will be tough for Microsoft to avoid…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called earlier talks to acquire TikTok the strangest thing he had ever worked on. (GeekWire Photo Illustration) The potential for Microsoft to acquire TikTok is looping…
“Mitzi,” the lobby dragon of Wizards of the Coast, has been given more space of her own in the company’s new Renton, Wash., headquarters. The bones scattered around her pedestal…
Eclypsium co-founders Yuriy Bulygin (left) and Alex Bazhaniuk. (Eclypsium Photo) Eclypsium, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that helps Fortune 500 companies and government agencies strengthen the cybersecurity of their technical infrastructure…
Helion’s facility in Everett, Wash. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy announced a $425 million funding round that will help the Seattle-area fusion company chase the “Holy Grail” of clean energy. The…
(Phoenix Labs Image) Canadian video game developer Phoenix Labs, creator of Dauntless and Fae Farm, announced Monday that it’s laying off a majority of its staff. The news came via…
Ben Hallen, the Dempsey endowed professor in strategy and entrepreneurship at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. (UW Photo) We woke up this morning to AI-related…
Jason Buechel has been CEO of Whole Foods Market since 2022. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is adding some big items to the Whole Foods CEO’s cart. Jason Buechel will expand his…
Madrona partner Jon Turow. (Madrona Photo) Editor’s note: This post first appeared on Jon Turow’s Substack newsletter. The AI community is rightfully buzzing about the new model DeepSeek R1 and is racing to digest what it…
(GeekWire FIle Photo / Todd Bishop) In an apparent response to the attention on a hot new AI model out of China, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted online late Sunday…
Srinivasan Gopalan will take over a T-Mobile’s chief operating officer in March. (T-Mobile Photo) — T-Mobile announced Srinivasan Gopalan as its new chief operating officer beginning March 1. Gopalan is…