Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster descends to a landing in Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put its New…
Nearly two years after its initial release, Hogwarts Legacy has continued its train of post-launch support with the addition of fully supported mods on PC. Prior to this update, mods…
While the U.S. and Canada duke it out over tariffs between the two countries, a tech company based out of Toronto is announcing a major round of funding led by…
The NBA is experimenting with a digital brain for basketballs. The system is the brainchild of SportIQ, a Finnish startup that develops smart basketballs. Inside each ball’s valve, SportIQ embeds…
SoftBank isn’t just part of the group investing $500 billion into Project Stargate to build American AI infrastructure capacity for OpenAI. It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI,…
Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company." Source
Laton Ventures, a gaming and apps focused venture capital firm founded by Görkem Türk, has closed its first fund with $50 million.Read More Source
Meme Team President Donald Trump's dubious meme coin just keeps sliding. Trump's "official" crypto venture has lost about thirty percent of its value over the last seven days, and is…
The AI industry is getting more intense as companies aggressively focus on bringing forward cutting-edge technology and making the next breakthrough. While OpenAI has established itself firmly in the field…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek embarrassed OpenAI last week, demonstrating that its cutting-edge AI chatbots can be recreated at a tiny fraction of the cost by using clever workarounds. The app's…
Last Friday, AI startup OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand — “OpenAI” — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Normally, this wouldn’t…
In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on its…
Global games investment rose 38% from $3.1 billion to $4.3 billion in 2024, according to a report by game venture capital firm Hiro Capital.Read More Source
SemiAnalysis says that DeepSeek and its venture capitalist partner spent some $1.6 billion dollar on AI hardware from Nvidia, says SemiAnalysis. Source
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 Jan. 26, 2025. Sign…
The founder of a San Francisco-based AI startup called On Platform was arrested last week after prosecutors charged that he and his wife had blown millions of dollars worth of…
Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted…
The emergence of Chinese AI startup DeeSeek upended Silicon Valley earlier this week, punching a massive $1 trillion hole through the tech industry. The company's highly efficient yet high-performing "reasoning'…
The Tomb adds more Zombie Intel for players to collect, so prepare to head into the cursed catacombs and venture deep through a world of darkness, as the Zombie Intel…
The Chinese startup that shook the world last week has added an image generator to its AI arsenal. Source