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GeekWire test ride: Lime’s new bike packs a zippy punch into a compact, easier-to-use device
Mai 06, 2026
GeekWire’s Kurt Schlosser cruises the Burke-Gilman Trail in Seattle on a new LimeBike electric bicycle from Lime this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Lime’s newest electric bike is being billed mostly as an accessibility upgrade, but don’t let that undersell it — this thing is nimble,...
XBOW, the unicorn with a Seattle mailbox, raises another $35M for its autonomous hacking platform
Mai 06, 2026
The XBOW team photo from the company’s website shows employees gathered in Malta, where founder and CEO Oege de Moor is based. The company lists Seattle as its headquarters. (XBOW Photo) The headquarters address of one of Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startups isn’t a trendy office tower or a...
Tin Can launches program to help schools and neighborhoods go smartphone-free together
Mai 06, 2026
Tin Can landline phones in a variety of colors. (Tin Can Photo) Tin Can, the Seattle startup behind the screenless, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone for kids, is launching a new feature aimed at the groups that have been driving its rapid growth: schools, neighborhoods, and parent organizations...
Seattle-area tech vets buy a cricket team — in Boston — to further feed the sport’s talent pipeline
Mai 06, 2026
The new ownership group of the New England Eagles Minor League Cricket franchise, clockwise from top left: Vandana Thomas, Anand Subbaraj, Gaurav Seth, Satheesh Santhamurthi, and Manoj Naidu. (LinkedIn Photos) After more than a decade building cricket fields, sponsoring youth teams, and...
Early Amazon engineer and serial founders raise $15M to keep AI agents in the loop
Mai 06, 2026
SageOx co-founders, from left: Milkana Brace, Ajit Banerjee, and Ryan Snodgrass. (SageOx Photo) SageOx, a Seattle startup building tools for teams where humans and AI coding agents work side by side, has announced $15 million in seed funding. The company launched in January. The round was led...
PSL’s T.A. McCann is running a startup again, as the CEO of Lev — an ‘AI co-founder’ for startups
Mai 06, 2026
T.A. McCann inside Pioneer Square Labs’ Seattle offices. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Serial entrepreneur and investor T.A. McCann has started companies at the front edge of every major tech wave for three decades, from the web and cloud services to mobile and social apps. Maybe it...
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief nixes Gaming Copilot for mobile and console, shakes up leadership
Mai 05, 2026
Asha Sharma was named Xbox CEO in February after leading Microsoft’s CoreAI group. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is pulling the plug on its AI-powered Copilot assistant for Xbox, winding down the feature on mobile and canceling its planned launch on consoles. The pullback, announced Tuesday by...
Tech Moves: Amazon VP is now Chewy CTO; Smartsheet names CFO; Microsoft exec joins NetApp
Mai 05, 2026
Yunyan Wang. (LinkedIn Photo) — Yunyan Wang has left Amazon to become chief technology officer at Chewy, the leading online pet retailer. Wang spent more than 12 years at the Seattle-based tech giant, most recently as vice president of Commerce & Supply Chain Services. “(Wang’s) track record...
Seattle’s CopilotKit raises $27M, as some of the biggest names in tech adopt its AI agent protocol
Mai 05, 2026
CopilotKit co-founders Uli Barkai, head of growth, left, and CEO Atai Barkai. (CopilotKit Photo) CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in the former Techstars Seattle accelerator, has raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software applications. The...
Moment Energy lands $40M to scale EV battery repurposing at planned Texas gigafactory
Mai 05, 2026
Artist’s rendering of Moment Energy’s planned Austin, Texas, gigafactory. (Moment Energy Image) Moment Energy, a British Columbia-based startup repurposing used electric vehicle batteries, has announced a $40 million investment to help fund construction of a massive factory in Texas and more...
Microsoft’s new research finds an AI ‘paradox’ holding companies back
Mai 05, 2026
Caption: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the company’s Copilot initiatives. A new Microsoft study finds that the biggest barrier to AI at work isn’t the technology — it’s the organizations around it. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an...
Data centers at sea: Panthalassa nets $140M led by Peter Thiel for wave-powered AI
Mai 04, 2026
A Panthalassa wave energy system. (LinkedIn Photo) Wave energy had largely been bobbing around in the background of the U.S. clean energy sector — until now. On Monday, Oregon-based Panthalassa announced a $140 million round led by Peter Thiel. The new funding from the PayPal co-founder and...
Seattle schools’ new cellphone rules are in effect — what it means for different kids, and why now
Mai 04, 2026
(BigStock Photo) For years, the rules around cellphones in Seattle Public Schools depended largely on which school — or even which classroom — a student walked into. That ended today. The district enacted its first districtwide cellphone policy on Monday, setting a single standard for all...
Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 02, 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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
Mai 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...
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