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Bungie scores an unexpected success with ‘Marathon’ revival

Bungie scores an unexpected success with ‘Marathon’ revival

26 mars 2026

(Bungie screenshot) By all indications, Bungie’s revival of its Marathon franchise should not have worked out. Despite a CEO’s departure, an indefinite delay, several controversies, and targeting a saturated genre, Marathon came out earlier this month and has become one of this year’s unexpected...

Want to watch the Seattle Mariners? Here are the TV and streaming options as Opening Day arrives

Want to watch the Seattle Mariners? Here are the TV and streaming options as Opening Day arrives

26 mars 2026

Seattle Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert is expected to open the season tonight against Cleveland. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Seattle Mariners open the 2026 season tonight at T-Mobile Park against the Cleveland Guardians. And perhaps the biggest question on the minds of fans, apart from...

Forget new power plants — Seattle startup Edo wants to turn your office building into one

Forget new power plants — Seattle startup Edo wants to turn your office building into one

26 mars 2026

An Edo employee connecting to a commercial building’s operating system. (Edo Photo / Patrick Martinez) A surge in electricity demand from data centers and AI use, compounded by more frequent extreme weather and wildfires, is finally putting Seattle startup Edo‘s 5-year-old mission in the...

Everyone is a builder: Microsoft and OpenAI execs on the new era of AI-powered personal software

Everyone is a builder: Microsoft and OpenAI execs on the new era of AI-powered personal software

25 mars 2026

Vijaye Raji, OpenAI’s CTO of applications and former CEO at Statsig, speaks at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event in Seattle on March 24. (GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) Vijaye Raji wanted to figure out how to keep up with the firehose of Slack messages. After a couple prompts, he had a...

Startups pitch big AI ideas during mini-competition at GeekWire’s ‘Agents of Transformation’

Startups pitch big AI ideas during mini-competition at GeekWire’s ‘Agents of Transformation’

25 mars 2026

Manfred Markevitch, co-founder and CEO of GemaTEG, pitches alongside judges, from left, Bryan Hale of Anthos Capital, Yifan Zhang of AI House, and T.A. McCann of Pioneer Square Labs during GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event in Seattle on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Big Tech...

GeekWire Awards: Breakthrough tech for healthcare and data centers highlight Innovation of the Year

GeekWire Awards: Breakthrough tech for healthcare and data centers highlight Innovation of the Year

25 mars 2026

The finalists for Innovation of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards. Clockwise from top: Starcloud; RevealDx; Alpenglow Biosciences; VerAvanti; and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (GeekWire / Company Photos) From the research lab to the healthcare clinic and all the way above Earth — the...

Amazon and FedEx, together again, this time for e-commerce returns

Amazon and FedEx, together again, this time for e-commerce returns

25 mars 2026

An Amazon Prime delivery van and a FedEx Ground van on a Seattle street. The two companies are expanding their rekindled partnership into returns. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon and FedEx are expanding their partnership after starting to patch things up last year. The companies...

Beyond the chatbot: At GeekWire summit, AI leaders say the era of autonomous agents is already here

Beyond the chatbot: At GeekWire summit, AI leaders say the era of autonomous agents is already here

25 mars 2026

GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation AI summit drew a full house to Block 41 in Seattle on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The debate over whether AI will transform industries is over. At GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation summit in Seattle on Tuesday, the founders, executives and...

Aetheon raises $1.2M to translate lived experiences into job-ready skills

Aetheon raises $1.2M to translate lived experiences into job-ready skills

25 mars 2026

From left, Aetheon co-founders: Gina Jeneroux, Marie Gill, and Mark Wayman. (LinkedIn and Aetheon Photos) Aetheon, a new startup that helps job candidates map their real world capabilities into work opportunities, has raised $1.24 million as part of its seed round. Founded last year, the...

Job candidates are starting to negotiate AI token budgets, changing the dynamics of hiring

Job candidates are starting to negotiate AI token budgets, changing the dynamics of hiring

25 mars 2026

Charles Lamanna (left), Microsoft’s executive vice president of Business Applications & Agents, interviewed by GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event at Block 41 in Seattle on March 24. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Technical job candidates...

Epic Games layoffs impact 82 workers at Seattle-area office as part of broader cuts

Epic Games layoffs impact 82 workers at Seattle-area office as part of broader cuts

24 mars 2026

(Epic Games Photo) Epic Games, the gaming giant behind Fortnite, is laying off 82 employees at its Bellevue, Wash.-based office, according to a WARN notice filed with Washington state regulators. Epic announced Tuesday that it is laying off 1,000 employees across the company, or about 20% of...

Brinc unveils Guardian, a Starlink-connected drone that could ‘replace the police helicopter’

Brinc unveils Guardian, a Starlink-connected drone that could ‘replace the police helicopter’

24 mars 2026

Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, with the company’s new Guardian public safety drone in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones founder and CEO Blake Resnick has a big vision for what the company’s largest-ever drone can accomplish. “To replace the police...

Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startup’s rapid growth

Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startup’s rapid growth

24 mars 2026

The main floor of the new Brinc Drones factory and headquarters location in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of public safety drones for first responders, is moving its headquarters and factory space to a massive...

Tech Moves: More changes at Xbox; Remitly taps new accounting chief; Atlassian CTO steps down

Tech Moves: More changes at Xbox; Remitly taps new accounting chief; Atlassian CTO steps down

24 mars 2026

Lori Wright. (Photo via LinkedIn) — There’s more shake-up within Microsoft’s gaming unit as Lori Wright announced she is leaving “in the coming weeks.” Wright spent nine years at Microsoft, most recently leading global partnerships and business development and marketing for Xbox. “I leave...

Big ideas, early traction: AI founders pitch VCs at Seattle-area startup showcase

Big ideas, early traction: AI founders pitch VCs at Seattle-area startup showcase

24 mars 2026

Panelists Hang Huang (InsForge), Brooke Borseth (FUSE), and Nate Bek (Ascend) with moderator Ke Du, offer the perspective from investors at the Seattle AI Startup Showcase. (Photo courtesy B.E.L.L.E) Imagine you’re a property manager, and a washing machine breaks in one of your units. You text a...

The guardian angel of groceries: Katherine Sizov’s tech-led quest to modernize our food system

The guardian angel of groceries: Katherine Sizov’s tech-led quest to modernize our food system

24 mars 2026

Katherine Sizov, CEO and co-founder of Strella, was recognized this year as a 30 Under 30 leader by Forbes. (Photo courtesy of Sizov) Almost a decade ago, a shocking statistic put Katherine Sizov on a new career path. Sizov was doing neuroscience research at the NIH but knew the role wasn’t...

Ai2 releases open-source web agent to rival closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

Ai2 releases open-source web agent to rival closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

24 mars 2026

The Allen Institute for AI is releasing an open-source web agent that can navigate and complete tasks in a browser — letting developers look under the hood to understand what’s happening in ways not possible with closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The nonprofit...

Microsoft, Lime and others helping to celebrate opening of new light rail line from Seattle to Eastside

Microsoft, Lime and others helping to celebrate opening of new light rail line from Seattle to Eastside

24 mars 2026

The Link light rail 2 Line heads east toward Lake Washigton with downtown Seattle and Lumen Field in the background. (Sound Transit Photo) Sound Transit’s Link light rail will carry passengers across Lake Washington for the first time on Saturday with the opening of the Crosslake Connection, and...

Microsoft hires former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi and key researchers for Suleyman’s AI team

Microsoft hires former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi and key researchers for Suleyman’s AI team

23 mars 2026

Ali Farhadi speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle, May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali...

GeekWire’s AI summit is Tuesday: What to know if you’re attending our ‘Agents of Transformation’ event

GeekWire’s AI summit is Tuesday: What to know if you’re attending our ‘Agents of Transformation’ event

23 mars 2026

There’s still time to grab a last-minute ticket for GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation, a half-day summit in Seattle on Tuesday that will explore how agentic AI is redefining work, creativity, and leadership. Keep reading for details about our speaker lineup, the schedule, logistical...

Opinion: The AI white collar displacement debate — doom or delay?

Opinion: The AI white collar displacement debate — doom or delay?

23 mars 2026

Editor’s note: GeekWire publishes guest opinions to foster informed discussion and highlight a diversity of perspectives on issues shaping the tech and startup community. If you’re interested in submitting a guest column, email us at tips@geekwire.com. Submissions are reviewed by our editorial team...

Report: Helion is working on a massive fusion power deal with OpenAI

Report: Helion is working on a massive fusion power deal with OpenAI

23 mars 2026

Helion Energy’s Polaris fusion demonstration reactor operating with tritium and deuterium fuel. (Helion Photo) The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is negotiating a deal to supply OpenAI with massive amounts of energy, Axios reported Monday. The deal under discussion would have...

10 startups chosen for Plug and Play’s third Seattle-area accelerator cohort

10 startups chosen for Plug and Play’s third Seattle-area accelerator cohort

23 mars 2026

Startup founders who pitched for a chance to join the latest Plug and Play Cohort. (Photo courtesy of Plug and Play) Plug and Play has selected the 10 startups that will take part in its third Seattle-area accelerator cohort as the program marks its one-year anniversary in the region. The...

Sci-fi epic ‘Project Hail Mary’ gives Amazon MGM Studios its best opening ever with $80.6M

Sci-fi epic ‘Project Hail Mary’ gives Amazon MGM Studios its best opening ever with $80.6M

23 mars 2026

Ryan Gosling set out to save the planet, and he may just save Amazon’s movie-making credibility. “Project Hail Mary,” the sci-fi epic that stars Gosling as a scientist sent on a mission to save Earth from extinction, grossed $80.6 million in its opening weekend, marking the biggest box...

AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era

AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era

22 mars 2026

Jeff Bezos framed this copy of a 2006 BusinessWeek cover, reflecting Wall Street’s skepticism about AWS. (Jeff Bezos via X, May 2022) In the early days of Amazon Web Services, technical evangelist Jeff Barr was putting in long hours on the road, pitching a novel concept: rent computing power for...

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 15, 2026

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 15, 2026

22 mars 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 March 15, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...

51,600 more satellites? Blue Origin adds another twist to the data center space race with Project Sunrise

51,600 more satellites? Blue Origin adds another twist to the data center space race with Project Sunrise

21 mars 2026

An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (OneWeb Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is asking the Federal Communications Commission for authority to send up to 51,600 data center satellites into low Earth orbit, signaling its entry into an...

Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds

Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds

21 mars 2026

An artist’s conception of Amazon’s Leo satellite constellation. The satellite internet initiative sits in the same division as Amazon’s new phone project, raising the question of whether Amazon could eventually provide its own wireless connectivity. (Amazon Illustration) When Reuters reported...

Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

21 mars 2026

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after the Fire Phone debacle, according to Reuters. We dig into the connection to a past GeekWire scoop: former Microsoft Xbox leader J Allard joined Amazon’s devices team...

Report: Amazon is making another phone, this time for the AI era

Report: Amazon is making another phone, this time for the AI era

20 mars 2026

Different this time? Jeff Bezos unveils the Amazon Fire Phone in June 2014. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is working on another phone. That’s the jaw-dropper from Reuters this morning, reporting that the company is developing a new smartphone codenamed “Transformer” within its...

Seattle’s biotech scene is world-class — Life Science Washington is teaching it how to brag

Seattle’s biotech scene is world-class — Life Science Washington is teaching it how to brag

20 mars 2026

Marc Cummings, president and CEO of Life Science Washington, speaking at a one-day forum focused on AI-driven biotech that was held in Seattle in October 2025. (Life Science Washington Photo) Seattle is already a top global hub for AI-driven biotechnology. It just doesn’t know how to say...

Tech Moves: Carbon Robotics’ new CFO; Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix; Nordstrom gets VP of AI

Tech Moves: Carbon Robotics’ new CFO; Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix; Nordstrom gets VP of AI

20 mars 2026

Kevan Kryslter, CFO of Carbon Robotics. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Agtech company Carbon Robotics appointed Kevan Krysler as chief financial officer. The Seattle startup, known for zapping weeds with lasers, reports it has surpassed $100 million in annual revenue. Carbon has also been name-checked...

Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the wheel of Treasure Truck

Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the wheel of Treasure Truck

20 mars 2026

Amazon’s beloved Treasure Truck finally ran out of road in 2022, after about a seven-year run. But Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores and an early champion of the deals-on-wheels concept, once worried that Marshawn Lynch was going to crash the party just as it got rolling. In...

Sidewalk scooter riders, beware: AI-powered ‘Lime Vision’ will soon call you out

Sidewalk scooter riders, beware: AI-powered ‘Lime Vision’ will soon call you out

20 mars 2026

A Lime e-scooter rider cruises past on the sidewalk in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, home to Amazon HQ. New tech on the scooters coming this summer will generate audible and app alerts warning riders to move to a safer riding area. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Lime scooters in...

Bluesky discloses $100M Series B round raised last year

Bluesky discloses $100M Series B round raised last year

19 mars 2026

Decentralized social network Bluesky revealed on Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True Ventures. The round closed in April 2025. Bluesky previously...

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