GeekWire Graphic / Qualtrics logo Three months after closing its $6.75 billion purchase of Press Ganey Forsta, Qualtrics is cutting jobs across the combined company — a reduction that the experience-management technology company says reflects duplication between two organizations that were built...
GeekWire co-founder John Cook talks with Dan Clubbe of The Redmen TV about Jeff Bezos’ investment in Liverpool FC. (The Redmen TV Video) What does Jeff Bezos’ new ownership stake in English Premier League powerhouse Liverpool FC mean for the storied soccer club? I was invited by Dan Clubbe...
The Expedia Group logo at the company’s headquarters campus on the Seattle waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group is parting ways with at least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents in a major reorganization designed to reorient its product and technology groups...
GeekWire Illustration / TikTok Logo TikTok is laying off 75 workers in the Seattle region, focused largely on the company’s e-commerce business, according to a notice filed Tuesday with Washington state. Job titles listed in the notice are almost entirely TikTok Shop and Global E-Commerce...
An artist’s conception shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander on the moon’s surface during the lunar night, with Zeno Power Systems’ radioisotope heater unit highlighted with a blue glow on the left side of the lander’s top deck. (Firefly Aerospace Illustration) A nuclear-powered heater built by Zeno...
An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone flies over a suburban neighborhood in Arizona. (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s drones are finally going national. The company’s autonomous aerial vehicles are set to deliver packages to nearly 500 cities and towns across the country by the end of this year, zipping...
Reroot founder Genevieve Priebe, a fourth-generation member of a Montana farm family. (Photos courtesy of Genevieve Priebe) Genevieve Priebe took a business meeting this summer while bottle-feeding baby goats. A couple of years ago, she was advising executives at some of Seattle’s largest tech...
Members of the BuyWander team, including co-founders Brock Kowalchuk and Jordan Allen, celebrate with the company’s 10,000th customer in Spokane, Wash. in 2025. (BuyWander Photo) BuyWander, the Spokane, Wash.-born startup building an auction marketplace for returned and overstocked retail goods,...
Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers. (Tesla Photo) Amazon is quietly accumulating a stake in Einride, the Swedish electric trucking company that said Tuesday it will deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers. Einride’s SEC filings show Amazon...
The new Highspot by Seismic branding, which replaced the company’s standalone logo Tuesday. (Highspot by Seismic Image) Highspot’s merger with Seismic was completed Tuesday morning, ending the Seattle-based sales software company’s run as an independent business and folding one of the region’s...
The reporting tool in question. (BigStock Photo / hadrian) Amazon is reportedly cutting the spines off old books and scanning the pages at a Las Vegas facility, presumably to train AI models on text that exists almost nowhere else. The company won’t confirm that’s the reason. It gave us the...
Harlan Robins (Photo via Harell Data) Harlan Robins spent years as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, helping build massive datasets to decode the human immune system. But as artificial intelligence exploded across life sciences, he recognized a growing...
Consul General Prakash Gupta, left of the flagpole, joins elected officials, tech leaders and guests at the flag-raising for India’s 80th Independence Day in downtown Seattle on Aug. 15. (Consulate General of India Photo) Note: Former Microsoft and AWS exec Harini Gokul serves on the Medina...
GitHub was hit by a widespread outage Monday. (GitHub Logo / GeekWire Illustration) GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code-sharing platform with 225 million users, was down for more than three hours Monday morning, disrupting software development work around the world. The issue started at 6:40...
Scenes from Friday’s demonstration at City Center Plaza in Bellevue, which houses OpenAI’s offices. (Images via Troublemakers Community) Five months after OpenAI cut the ribbon on its office in Bellevue, Wash., the building has become the target of a national campaign against AI expansion, which...
Andrew Redd, CEO and founder of Endurance Energy, with company puppy Maple as the startup preps to launch its next prototype system for geothermal energy production. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Next month, Endurance Energy will send Adélie — a 100-kilowatt geothermal generator named for a...
Some of the habits and settings that separate AI power users from everyone else. (Illustration by GPT-5.6 Sol) Your first step toward becoming an AI Power User is to adopt a few hacks, most of which only take a minute to implement. My favorites are below. There’s a lot here, so you can pick...
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 Aug. 9, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What should Liverpool FC fans expect from Jeff Bezos as a member of the storied English Premier League club’s new minority ownership group? We consult the Amazon leadership principles for the answer. Plus, a tip and an SEC filing lead to a scoop on a former...
(GeekWire File Photo) Amazon indicated for the first time this week that any video broadcast via its livestreaming platform Twitch could be used to train generative AI, unless users take steps to avoid it, which has caused a significant backlash from both audiences and content creators. The...
An undisclosed pharma company signed a 21-year lease for the former Seagen property in Everett. Photo via Breakthrough Properties. A bio-manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., which was built by Seattle biotech giant Seagen but never opened under its Pfizer ownership, is getting a new lease...
Dave Levy. (LinkedIn Photo) — Dave Levy, vice president of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, has left Amazon for a role at Google, according to Nextgov/FCW. An AWS spokesperson confirmed his departure; Google did not respond to a request for comment. Levy, who is based in Arlington, Va., was with AWS...
Reid Miller in a selfie taken along the Seattle waterfront. (Photo courtesy of Reid Miller) Looking for love in Seattle took an unexpected turn when Reid Miller, a 26-year-old Amazon software engineer, decided to bypass dating apps. Instead of swiping on Tinder or Hinge, Miller’s friends...
InduPro’s ARRIS platform is designed to bring two proteins on the surface of a cell together, potentially allowing drugs to target cancer cells more precisely and opening up new ways to treat disease. InduPro, a 4-year-old biotech startup with operations in Seattle and Cambridge, Mass., this...
ScopeSys CEO Padma Kodukula Medical researchers need cutting-edge tools to create new treatments, and Vancouver, BC startup ScopeSys wants to provide them. Founded in 2017 and tracing its roots to research from University of British Columbia biophysicist Sabrina Leslie, ScopeSys uses physics...
Washington AG Nick Brown filed the lawsuit against Kalshi in March. (Photo courtesy of the Washington Attorney General’s Office) A judge in Seattle ordered Kalshi to shut down large parts of its prediction market in Washington state by Sept. 2 — less than three weeks from now — and denied the...
Blue Origin’s ground station network includes a radio antenna in Bermuda. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has successfully tested the first three ground stations for a global communications network that will support the company’s missions in Earth orbit and...
Anthropic will embed an invisible mark in text generated by new Claude models. (GeekWire Illustration) Claude models launched on or after Aug. 2 embed an invisible mark in everything they write. It’s woven into the text itself, so it travels when you copy and paste. You didn’t opt in, you can’t...
Lev CTO Jay Bartot, left, and founder and CEO T.A. McCann. (Lev Photo) Jay Bartot has spent most of his career building startups and advising other founders. Now he’s joining another veteran entrepreneur in a bet that technology can do a lot of that work. Lev, the Pioneer Square Labs spinout...
Jeff Dean, co-founder and CEO of Discovery Loop. (Photo via KDD.org) Jeff Dean has spent decades flexing his brain to solve some of computing’s hardest problems. Turns out the Google legend and UW computer science alum has been pushing his physical limits just as hard. In an exchange on X...
Microsoft introduced Mico last October as “your AI companion.” It’s now exiting Copilot’s core voice experience. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft has spent decades putting characters into its software and then sending them off into retirement. Now joining Bob, Clippy and Cortana in the great recycle...
The merger of Microsoft’s consumer and business Copilot apps lays the groundwork for the upcoming Copilot “Super App” that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has touted to developers and investors. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft is starting the process of combining its consumer and...
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold during the team’s training camp. (Seahawks Photo) If your summer sports head is spinning about the current state of the Seattle Mariners, perhaps it’d be better served focusing on “spin rate,” particularly as it relates to Seahawks quarterback Sam...
The Seattle metro area’s median home-sale price is $809,479, roughly double the national average. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) As prospective buyers face steep borrowing costs and a turbulent tech job market, home sales nationwide have fallen to their lowest point in nearly two years —...
Overland AI develops autonomous ground vehicles and systems used by the U.S. military. (Overland AI Photo) Silicon Valley companies have spent decades coming to Seattle for engineering talent. Now Seattle-based Overland AI is returning the favor. The autonomous ground vehicle maker announced...