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Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages
21 février 2026
Amazon Web Services issued an unusual public rebuttal to a Financial Times report about outages. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Seven hours at the top of Techmeme was apparently too much for Amazon to take. The tech giant’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, issued an unusually pointed...
Analysis: The best thing that the new Xbox CEO can do is … nothing
21 fvrier 2026
Asha Sharma and Matt Booty, the new leadership team for Microsoft Gaming. (Microsoft Photo) During Phil Spencer’s tenure as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, he brought dozens of the games industry’s best developers and most beloved franchises under a single roof. As a result, his successor Asha...
Mariners open Spring Training with a win — and a loss in first Automated Ball-Strike challenge
21 fvrier 2026
A view of the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System’s call of a ball as it appeared during the Seattle Mariners game on Friday. (Screen grab via Mariners.TV) The Seattle Mariners opened their Spring Training schedule with a win and a loss on Friday, beating the San Diego Padres 7-4 but losing...
Xbox chief Phil Spencer retiring after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma named new gaming CEO
20 fvrier 2026
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, at the Xbox E3 Briefing at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles in 2019. (Microsoft Photo) Phil Spencer, the Xbox leader who spent 38 years at Microsoft and helped reshape the gaming industry through big acquisitions and a bet on cloud gaming, is retiring...
Tech Moves: Code.org has a new leader; Synapse vet joins Amazon; ex-Tableau CEO lands at Code Metal
20 fvrier 2026
Karim Meghji, president and CEO of Code.org. (Code.org Photo) — Karim Meghji is taking over the the role of president and CEO at Code.org, the Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit. Meghji, the former CTO at Seattle digital remittance company Remitly, joined Code.org in 2022 to...
Microsoft’s new RTO policy starts Feb. 23, bringing Seattle-area workers back 3 days a week
20 fvrier 2026
A keychain in the Microsoft company store awaits one of the company’s returning commuters. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Remember that return-to-office mandate Microsoft announced last fall? It’s almost here. Monday, Feb. 23 — yes, next week! — will mark the start of the company’s new policy...
NASA completes a smooth rehearsal for historic Artemis 2 moon launch
20 fvrier 2026
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (NASA Photo / Aubrey Gemignani) NASA counted down to T-minus 29 seconds during a smooth rehearsal for a historic launch that could send astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than half a century. The...
From a mall booth to a $3B fintech: Matt Oppenheimer’s startup lessons from a 15-year journey with Remitly
20 fvrier 2026
Matt Oppenheimer led Remitly for nearly 15 years as co-founder and CEO. He announced this week that he’s moving into the chairman role. (Remitly Photo) Build with intentionality. Lead with authenticity. Prioritize customers over your ego. And focus on the problem you’re solving — with...
Ballmer? Bezos? Sir Mix-a-Lot? Seahawks sale draws more hot takes on potential owners and price
20 fvrier 2026
The Seattle Seahawks have been officially for sale for a day, but the speculation about who could be the next owner of the team has been in high gear for years. National media personalities are now playing catch-up. “The Rich Eisen Show” on ESPN / Disney+ weighed in Thursday (above) with a...
Seattle transit’s new ‘tap-to-pay’ feature goes live next week as region gears up for World Cup
19 fvrier 2026
Seattle-area transit riders will soon be able to tap their physical credit cards or smartphone to pay for fares. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) The ubiquitous tap-to-pay technology now common in grocery stores and coffee shops is coming to Seattle-area buses and trains next week. Starting...
PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet
19 fvrier 2026
Paul Brainerd at a Brainerd Foundation retreat in Montana. (Brainerd Foundation Photo) In the summer of 1984, Paul Brainerd and four engineers packed into his old Saab and drove south on Interstate 5 from the Seattle area. They had been laid off after Kodak bought their employer, Atex, a company...
TerraClear launches autonomous farm robot to capture images for tackling rocks, weeds and more
19 fvrier 2026
TerraClear’s autonomous field robot the TerraScout. (TerraClear Photo) TerraClear’s mission to help farmers map and tackle tough field problems such as rocks and weeds has evolved with the launch of a new machine: an autonomous robot called TerraScout. The startup, based in Issaquah, Wash.,...
New hacker house in Seattle area brings startup founders together under one creative roof
19 fvrier 2026
Bili House is a hacker house located on the water in Bellevue, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Bili House) A large house overlooking Meydenbauer Bay in Bellevue, Wash., could be the home of the Seattle-region’s next big AI startup. At the very least, it’s a place where ideas are being hatched by tech...
Seattle startup Adronite raises $5M to help enterprises understand their codebases
19 fvrier 2026
Adronite CEO Edward Rothschild. (Adronite Photo) Seattle startup Adronite raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, as it looks to expand its AI-powered platform designed to give large organizations visibility into sprawling and complex codebases. The funding...
Remitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer steps down, hands reins of fintech company to former Amazon exec
18 fvrier 2026
Remitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer helped launch the company back in 2011, helping grow the firm into a global remittance platform. (Remitly Photo) Remitly co-founder Matt Oppenheimer is stepping down as CEO after nearly 15 years growing the Seattle-based digital remittance company into a profitable,...
Seahawks parade drone incident underscores security concerns ahead of World Cup in Seattle
18 fvrier 2026
Fans gather at Lumen Field on Feb. 11 ahead of a parade through Seattle to celebrate the Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory. (GeekWire Photo / James Cook) A pilot is facing charges after flying a drone into Lumen Field in Seattle during last week’s Seahawks Super Bowl victory celebration — an incident...
Seattle Seahawks are for sale as Paul Allen estate seeks buyer shortly after Super Bowl win
18 fvrier 2026
Paul Allen is credited with saving the Seahawks for the city of Seattle when he purchased the team in 1997. He was inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor at Lumen Field in October 2019. (GeekWire File Photo) The Seattle Seahawks are officially for sale. A week after parading through the city...
Tech Moves: Sana hires CFO; Aptevo names new CEO; Violett founder departs; and more
18 fvrier 2026
— Brian Piper, a longtime biotech leader, is the new CFO at Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology. Piper was previously CFO at Antares Therapeutics, Scorpion Therapeutics, and Prelude Therapeutics. Piper was also given an executive vice president title at Sana, a cell and gene therapy...
Seattle startup Griptape acquired by creative software firm Foundry
18 fvrier 2026
Griptape CEO and co-founder Kyle Roche. (LinkedIn Photo) Griptape, a Seattle-based startup founded in 2023 by former Amazon Web Services executives, has been acquired by Foundry, a London-based company whose software is used in visual effects and animation across Hollywood. Terms of the deal...
Airbnb offering $750 to attract new hosts during World Cup in Seattle this summer
18 fvrier 2026
The Seattle skyline looking north from Lumen Field, which will play host to FIFA World Cup matches. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Airbnb is incentivizing people to open up their homes this summer to FIFA World Cup visitors, offering $750 to new hosts in Seattle and other cities hosting...
Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform
18 fvrier 2026
Duckbill co-founders Corey Quinn, left, and CEO Mike Julian. (Duckbill Photo) “We’ve raised a pile of money, and we’re building a product.” That’s the characteristically deadpan announcement Wednesday morning from Corey Quinn, the cloud cost consultant who has built a second career,...
AWS accelerator initiatives will offer $100M in credits to federal agencies for cloud and AI services
18 fvrier 2026
Cloud computing and AI can come into play in advanced manufacturing and shipbuilding for the U.S. military. (NIWC Pacific Illustration) Amazon Web Services has launched two credit programs worth up to $100 million to help federal agencies leverage AWS cloud services and generative AI...
San Francisco-based Binti opens office on Seattle’s Lake Union ‘to tap into city’s great talent pool’
18 fvrier 2026
The waterfront view from Binti’s new Seattle office overlooking Lake Union and the Aurora Bridge. (Binti Photo) Binti, a San Francisco-based startup that develops software tools for child welfare agencies, opened a new office on Seattle’s Lake Union. In the shadow of the Aurora Bridge...
Former Avalara exec leads new Seattle-area startup inspired by Washington’s estate tax
17 fvrier 2026
Legata CEO Alesia Pinney. (Legata Photo) After a decade helping Avalara scale its tax software business, Alesia Pinney is taking aim at a different kind of tax headache. Pinney is CEO and co-founder of Legata, a Seattle-area startup helping affluent households create estate plans. She...
Don’t take success for granted: Seattle Chamber CEO Joe Nguyen on tech’s evolving storyline
17 fvrier 2026
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Joe Nguyen. (Legislative Support Services Photo) When Joe Nguyen left his role as director of the Washington State Department of Commerce at the end of last year, it wasn’t because he was done fighting for the state’s economic...
Temporal raises $300M, hits $5B valuation as Seattle-area infrastructure startup rides AI wave
17 fvrier 2026
Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CEO, and Maxim Fateev, CTO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round at a $5 billion valuation, positioning the company as a key infrastructure provider for the emerging wave of AI agents moving into real-world...
GeekWire’s AI summit to feature key leaders from Amazon, Microsoft, and more, on March 24 in Seattle
17 fvrier 2026
From left, Charles Lamanna of Microsoft, Theresa Piasta of Outreach, Swami Sivasubramanian of AWS, and Kiana Ehsani of Vercept will be among the speakers at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation summit on March 24 in Seattle. GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation summit is a little more than a month...
Seattle startup Certivo raises $4M to automate supply chain compliance with AI
17 fvrier 2026
Certivo CEO Kunal Chopra. (Certivo Photo) Seattle startup Certivo raised $4 million in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform aimed at automating supply chain compliance. Boston-based Suffolk Technologies, which specializes in construction technology investments, led the round....
Zillow teams up with ‘World of Warcraft’ to exhibit virtual homes inside popular game
17 fvrier 2026
(Zillow Image) Real estate company Zillow has partnered with the company behind the long-running online game World of Warcraft in order to showcase players’ creativity by exhibiting their virtual homes. A new microsite, “Zillow for Warcraft,” allows users to explore an assortment of designs...
Proposed income tax on high earners advances in Washington state
17 fvrier 2026
Washington state’s Legislative Building in Olympia. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) The so-called “millionaires tax” was approved by Washington’s Senate on Monday, advancing a measure that would create a 9.9% tax applied to taxable, personal annual income that exceeds $1 million. Gov. Bob...
‘We’re experimenting aggressively’: How Expedia sees AI reshaping travel — and its own business
16 fvrier 2026
Expedia’s headquarters in Seattle, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia is responding to the AI era by making sure it’s testing new ways to reach travelers — and also using it aggressively inside its own business. In its newly filed 10-K annual report, the Seattle-based company...
Spokane startup Blaze Barrier heats up with new funding for quick-deploy wildfire defense system
16 fvrier 2026
Members of the Blaze Barrier team, from left: Jacob Schuler, founder and CEO; Jennifer Fanto, chief operating officer; and Cody Schuler, head of production and safety. (Blaze Barrier Photo) Jacob Schuler is not a firefighter. But in 2021 he heard from a friend who was first on scene to a barn in...
Washington state has embraced data centers – but now it’s looking to set terms of engagement
16 fvrier 2026
Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce when she started getting calls from tech companies eager to build facilities...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 8, 2026
15 fvrier 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 Feb. 8, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
GeekWire Podcast in Fremont: Seahawks, AI, and Seattle’s future
14 fvrier 2026
The crowd at Fremont Brewing for a live recording of the GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire Photo / Curt Milton) We took the GeekWire Podcast on the road this week, but not very far — recording the show in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, the “Center of the Universe,” just a few blocks from our own...
