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Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge
May 04, 2026
Microsoft’s unofficial Ninja Cat mascot rides the OpenClaw lobster. (Image via Omar Shahine’s blog) Bob. Clippy. Cortana. Copilot. Microsoft has been trying to unlock the personal-assistant puzzle for decades. Now a fledgling team inside the company that’s been experimenting with OpenClaw — an...
Building belonging: How GeekWire’s STEM Educator of the Year uses Legos to bridge the tech gap
May 04, 2026
Project LEDO founder Fidel Ferrer, second from left, working with Lego robotics students in his program. (Project LEDO Photo) Through Lego robotics and a STEM curriculum, Project LEDO serves as both an inspiration and a safety net for low-income kids and students of color in Portland, Ore., and...
Interlune wins $6.9M NASA contract to create system to extract helium-3 and hydrogen from moon dirt
May 04, 2026
Interlune test engineer Alex Lewandowski and mechanical engineer Jessica Wu check test equipment for the mass spectrometer system in the Regolith Lab at the company’s Seattle headquarters. (Interlune Photo) NASA has awarded a $6.9 million contract to Seattle-based Interlune for the development...
Amazon turns its logistics empire into a new business, taking on UPS and FedEx in freight and shipping
May 04, 2026
Amazon is opening its logistics network to outside businesses through a new offering called Amazon Supply Chain Services. (Amazon Photo) Amazon launched a new business that opens its entire logistics network to outside companies — sending shares of UPS and FedEx tumbling and marking the latest...
AI best practices: If at first you don’t succeed, prompt, prompt again
May 03, 2026
An AI prompt screen, as reimagined by Google Gemini. [Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series by Oren Etzioni about AI usage and best practices. See also “AI Coach or AI Ghostwriter? The Choice Is Yours,” and “How to read with AI.”] A friend asked ChatGPT for input on a professional...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 26, 2026
May 03, 2026
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 26, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a Seattle VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal
May 02, 2026
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: What it was like inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how hard it is to find anyone neutral about Musk these days. Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured...
Seattle mayor’s ‘bye’ to millionaires who leave state over taxes is no laughing matter to some in tech
May 01, 2026
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson makes a waving gesture while commenting on millionaires threatening to leave Washington state during her appearance at Seattle University earlier this month. (Screenshot via YouTube / Seattle Channel) Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being greeted with a bit of backlash...
Calculated joy: Why GeekWire’s STEM Educator of the Year built a museum to fix math trauma
May 01, 2026
Tracy Drinkwater engaging with visitors at the Seattle Universal Math Museum, which she founded. (SUMM Photo) Tracy Drinkwater bristles when people — sometimes proudly — declare they “can’t do math.” No one, she notes, would similarly boast about being bad at reading or history. But she...
Microsoft and Amazon join Pentagon’s push to build AI-first military with classified network deals
May 01, 2026
The U.S. Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (BigStock Photo) Microsoft and Amazon joined other leading artificial intelligence companies in signing deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon networks, the Defense Department announced Friday, accelerating a push to build what the military...
‘Exclusion compounds’: Women in tech push to shape AI before it’s too late
May 01, 2026
Panelists during a session at the Women in Tech Regatta in Seattle on Wednesday. From left, moderator Sarah Studer of the University of Washington, Maria Martin of Nordstrom, Nandita Krishnan of Adobe, and Anya Edelstein of Highspot. (WiT Regatta Photo) Women have long been left out of the...
Tired of talk that goes nowhere? This Seattle startup is using AI to turn civic debate into action
May 01, 2026
Merrill Keating, left, and Doña Keating are the mother-daughter co-founders of AI startup Convexus. (Photo courtesy of Merrill Keating) While much of the debate around artificial intelligence centers on the technology’s threat to jobs and society, one Seattle-area startup is turning that anxiety...
Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook, Seahawks owners? Tech moguls’ reported interest quickly spiked
April 30, 2026
Apple’s Tim Cook, left, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. (Apple, Meta Photos) Seattle Seahawks fans envisioning another tech billionaire as the new owner of the NFL team have a couple Silicon Valley-based names to consider. Or not. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been...
Geeks Give Back: AI House and UW’s Center for an Informed Public to be honored at GeekWire Awards
April 30, 2026
Top: Center for an Informed Public co-founder Kate Starbird speaking at a University of Washington lecture. Bottom: AI House managing director Jifan Zhang and an AI House event. (CIP and GeekWire Photos) Each year, the GeekWire Awards celebrate the geeky endeavors making a meaningful impact...
Microsoft puts a price on its voluntary retirement program
April 30, 2026
The night sky over Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will take a $900 million charge in its current quarter for its one-time voluntary retirement program, the company disclosed in its earnings report Wednesday. Just to put that in...
AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off
April 29, 2026
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon’s results past Wall Street’s expectations and validating, at least for now, the company’s controversial $200 billion capital spending plan. Overall, Amazon posted sales...
Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate
April 29, 2026
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. The company’s...
Opinion: AI is not a product — it’s an environment
April 29, 2026
(BigStock Image) Editor’s note: Bill Hilf is the former CEO of Vulcan/Vale Group, current board chair of Ai2 and American Prairie, and the author of the new sci-fi novel,”The Disruption,” which explores the topics of AI and natural ecosystems. He spoke about the book on the GeekWire Podcast, and...
Tech Moves: Former Microsoft VP to lead Inteum; Veeam, mpathic add execs; past Tune CEO’s new role
April 29, 2026
Angus Norton. (LinkedIn Photo) — Former Microsoft and Amazon exec Angus Norton is now CEO of Inteum, an IP management platform for university technology transfer offices. Norton joins the Kirkland, Wash.-based company from Bodhi Venture Labs, an executive services firm focused on product...
How a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startup
April 29, 2026
Flying Fish Partners’ Geoff Harris, Frank Chang and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo) The venture world is still digesting the eye-popping debut of London-based Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from DeepMind legend David Silver, which announced $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion...
Zap Energy’s nuclear double play: Fusion startup adds traditional fission to its lineup, in industry first
April 29, 2026
Zap Energy’s fusion device creates a purplish glow from its hydrogen plasma. (Zap Photo) Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms together to...
Game devs unionize to improve working conditions on ‘Magic: The Gathering – Arena’ team
April 28, 2026
(Official UWOTC-CWA image) The team developing a video game based on Magic: The Gathering announced on Tuesday that they’ve unionized, describing the move as part of an attempt to improve working conditions at Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast and create better games. United Wizards of...
OpenAI’s models land on Amazon Bedrock, one day after Microsoft exclusivity ends
April 28, 2026
AWS CEO Matt Garman at the event Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI’s new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI’s models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was...
AWS turns Amazon’s hiring and supply chain expertise into new AI products for other businesses
April 28, 2026
Amazon Connect Talent shows recruiters anonymized candidate scores rather than names or resumes. (Amazon Image) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon manages more than 400 million products in its supply chain and hired 250,000 seasonal workers last peak season. Now its cloud division is packaging up what the...
Truveta launches AI research tool to get quick insights from big database of U.S. clinical data
April 28, 2026
Screenshots of Truveta Intelligence, showing the query interface and sample results analyzing GLP-1 drug uptake trends. (Truveta Images) Truveta wants to give healthcare researchers something that has long eluded them: the ability to ask a question about real-world patient data and get an answer...
Seattle’s Sniffies lands $100M investment from Match Group in major bet on sex-positive tech
April 28, 2026
Sniffies about page. (Screenshot) Sniffies, a Seattle-based meetup platform for gay, bisexual and sexually curious men, has landed a $100 million investment from Match Group. The deal gives Match a significant minority ownership stake in the Grindr competitor, along with an option to acquire the...
T-Mobile enlists Starlink satellites for new ‘SuperBroadband’ business internet service
April 28, 2026
Mike Katz, T-Mobile’s chief business and product officer, speaks at an event last year highlighting the company’s longstanding satellite partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) T-Mobile is boosting its footprint as a business internet provider, expanding further beyond...
Amazon earnings preview: Big AI deals meet a $200B spending binge
April 28, 2026
Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday amid accelerating cloud growth and a record capital spending plan. (GeekWire File Photo) Follow-up: AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday with more signs than ever that...
Inside the courthouse as Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft goes to trial
April 27, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly...
Microsoft and OpenAI revamp partnership, with trial in Elon Musk suit set to begin
April 27, 2026
A crowd of lawyers and reporters waits outside the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland for the start of jury selection Monday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership...
Oprah goes Prime: Amazon secures multi-year rights to talk show queen’s video podcasts
April 27, 2026
Oprah Winfrey’s video podcast will be available across Amazon platforms. (Wondery Photo) Amazon has landed talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and her video podcasts for its suite of streaming services. “Long before the term ‘creator’ existed, Oprah was building a direct and deeply personal...
Late-night name drop: Seattle startup Tin Can achieves cultural milestone
April 27, 2026
Tin Can co-founder and CEO Chet Kittleson. (Tin Can Photo) Jimmy Kimmel was riffing on presidential social media habits last week when he offered a suggestion that doubled as an unscripted product endorsement. “I wonder if they’ve considered getting him one of those Tin Can phones like the...
Microsoft earnings preview: After a $357B wipeout, tech giant gets another chance
April 27, 2026
Follow-up: Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate The last time Microsoft reported earnings, it seemed to do everything right, at least by the traditional metrics. Revenue was up 17%, profits soared 24%, and the company’s closely...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 19, 2026
April 26, 2026
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 19, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
An AI hater’s guide to keeping LLMs as far from your workflow as possible in 2026
April 26, 2026
Clippy almost deserves an apology, now that we’ve seen what came next. (Original cartoon: Amadeo Garcia III for GeekWire) Longtime GeekWire readers might recognize my byline from my frequent coverage of the PNW’s video game industry, as well as occasionally dipping into the arts. I am also not a...
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