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‘No more’: Washington state sues Kalshi, alleging prediction market is illegal gambling
March 27, 2026
Screenshots of Kalshi ads and betting markets included in Washington state’s complaint. At right, an ad cited by the state shows a text conversation in which one person tells another they “found a way to bet on the NFL even though we live in Washington.” Washington Attorney...
Seattle data storage company putting R&D hub in Ireland
March 27, 2026
Seattle-based data management firm Qumulo is looking across the Atlantic for its next phase of growth. The company announced Friday the launch of a new European software research and development and customer success hub in Cork, Ireland, a move expected to create 50 jobs over the next three...
GeekWire Awards: 5 Workplace of the Year finalists lean on key values to build solid company culture
March 27, 2026
The finalists for Workplace of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards, clockwise from top left: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2); Humanly, led by CEO Prem Kumar; Caerbon Robotics, led by CEO Paul Mikesell; DAT Freight & Analytics; and the team at Yoodli. (GeekWire and company...
Tech Moves: Smartsheet adds to C-suite; Armoire gets ML lead; past Microsoft director launches startup
March 27, 2026
New Smartsheet executives, top row from left: Robson Grieve and Toyan Espeut. Bottom row: Pratima Arora and Kelsi McDonald Harris. (LinkedIn Photos) Enterprise software giant Smartsheet on Thursday announced four C-suite changes — two hires and two promotions. The Bellevue, Wash., company, which...
Two tech workers took it Offline, and opened a Seattle coffee shop that AI can’t replicate
March 27, 2026
Offline Coffee Co. co-founders Lucy Kong, left, and Krystal Graylin behind the counter at the cafe in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (Sarah Goh Photo) The meeting was running long, so someone said what they always say: “let’s take this offline.” For Krystal Graylin, that phrase — hollow...
GeekWire rides the world’s first floating-bridge train — Seattle tech commutes will never be the same
March 26, 2026
The view of Lake Washington and eastbound I-90 traffic out the window of Sound Transit’s Crosslake Connection Link light rail line as it heads west toward Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) As the train approached the bridge Thursday morning, it was hard to imagine what it...
Washington state needs a ‘coherent’ story to compete in AI, leaders agree
March 26, 2026
The Washington Technology Industry Association held its Tech in Focus roundtable on March 25, 2026, in Seattle. (Ken Yeung Photo) Washington state may have everything it needs to become a global AI hub. The problem is, it hasn’t figured out how to say so, and its political and tech leaders agree...
Bungie scores an unexpected success with ‘Marathon’ revival
March 26, 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
March 26, 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
March 26, 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
March 25, 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’
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 25, 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
March 24, 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
March 24, 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’
March 24, 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
March 24, 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
March 24, 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
March 24, 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
March 24, 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
March 24, 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
March 24, 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
March 23, 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
March 23, 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?
March 23, 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
March 23, 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
March 23, 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
March 22, 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
March 22, 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
March 22, 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
March 21, 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
March 21, 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...
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