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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 12, 2025
octubre 19, 2025
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 Oct. 12, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
The next PC platform shift? Ed Bott on Microsoft’s big Windows AI bet
octubre 18, 2025
What happens to Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC initiative as it aims to make every computer an AI PC? That’s one of our topics on this week’s GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Veteran technology journalist Ed Bott has “seen things,” after more than 30 years of covering Microsoft and...
Seattle shakes again as Mariners grand slam triggers another big burst of seismic activity
octubre 18, 2025
Seattle Mariners fans go crazy inside T-Mobile Park on Friday after third baseman Geno Suarez hit a grand slam in a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. (GeekWire Photo / Holly Grambihler) The crowd at T-Mobile Park has been waiting all week to move the earth again for the Seattle Mariners. They...
‘Doctor in your pocket’: Xealth CEO Mike McSherry on selling to Samsung and the future of digital healthcare
octubre 18, 2025
Xealth CEO Mike McSherry. (Xealth Photo) When Mike McSherry set out to build a digital health startup, the veteran entrepreneur wanted to create a company that would become ubiquitous in healthcare. Xealth didn’t quite reach that ambitious goal. But its digital health software platform did...
Seattle studio One More Game scraps initial project and reboots itself for new alien world co-op
octubre 17, 2025
(SWAPMEAT Image) The team at Seattle-based game developer One More Game is finally sharing its first title with players, six years after the company initially started. Shortly after landing a $22 million funding round in 2022 from investors including Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz, One...
Fooda acquires Seattle office lunch delivery startup Peach
octubre 17, 2025
(Peach Photo) Chicago-based office lunch delivery company Fooda has acquired Peach, a Seattle startup that also built software to facilitate meal deliveries for workers. Peach CEO Nishant Singh confirmed that the deal closed in July. It’s part of a recent wave of food delivery acquisitions,...
Tech Moves: Amazon AI VP departs for CoreWeave; F5 adds tech exec
octubre 17, 2025
Jon Jones. (LinkedIn Photo) — Jon Jones, a former Amazon Web Services vice president, is now chief revenue officer for CoreWeave, the New Jersey-based AI computing company that went public earlier this year. Jones joined AWS in 2017 and left the position of VP of global startups and venture...
Amazon HQ building will become new home for longtime Seattle ceramics nonprofit
octubre 17, 2025
Longtime ceramics nonprofit Pottery Northwest is moving to a new home at the base of an Amazon HQ tower in Seattle. (Pottery Northwest Image) Pottery Northwest, a longtime ceramics nonprofit in Seattle, is moving to a new home at the base of an Amazon headquarters tower next year. The...
Seattle startup bets on sodium batteries as cheaper, safer alternative to lithium
octubre 17, 2025
Emerald Battery Labs co-founders from left: David Bell, Kjell Schroder and Aric Stocks. (Emerald Photo) While most battery startups chase lithium, a new Seattle company is betting on an abundant alternative: sodium. Emerald Battery Labs is developing materials for sodium-ion batteries...
Startup Radar: Seattle founders use AI to tackle healthcare insurance, math education, cloud ops
octubre 17, 2025
From top left, clockwise: Decipher Healthcare CEO Pete Francis; Aspir CEO Nicole Doyle; MathGPT co-founder Nour Gajial; StratoCloud CEO Thiru Bhat; and SolyCrys AI CEO Gwen Chen. Seattle’s early-stage founders are applying AI across industries — from education and healthcare to marketing and...
City of Seattle providing $1.5M to company helping to electrify truck fleets at port
octubre 16, 2025
Zeem helps transition commercial trucking fleets to electrification. (Zeem Photo) The City of Seattle is providing $1.5 million in truck purchasing incentives to Zeem Solutions, a Los Angeles-based company that is helping to electrify fleets serving the Port of Seattle. Zeem has partnered...
F5 stock drops 12% as report links major breach to state-based hackers in China
octubre 16, 2025
The F5 Tower in Seattle. (F5 Photo) Shares of F5 fell more than 12% in Thursday trading after the company disclosed a major breach linked to nation-state hackers. The Seattle-based company reported the breach in a SEC filing early Wednesday, saying the attacker maintained “long-term,...
Helion lands permit for constructing reactor building at Washington site that aims to be first fusion plant
octubre 16, 2025
Construction in July 2025 on the planned Helion power plant Orion in Central Washington. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy has secured a Conditional Use Permit from a Central Washington county to start the next phase of development for what it hopes will be the world’s first commercial fusion plant....
Seattle startup Brook.ai raises $28M to expand remote care platform
octubre 16, 2025
Brook.ai CEO Oren Nissim. (LinkedIn Photo) Brook.ai, a Seattle-area health technology startup that uses AI to help clinical teams to deliver remote care, raised a $28 million Series B round led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside. Founded in 2015, Brooks’ platform combines data...
Microsoft’s new AI features aim to give Windows a voice and mind of its own
octubre 16, 2025
Windows machines await a past keynote demo. Microsoft on Thursday announced new AI features that bring voice and automation to Windows. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) “Are you talking to your computer?” That line from a new Microsoft Windows ad, spoken by a confused bystander, will...
A first look at the Amazon-backed, next-generation nuclear facility planned for Washington state
octubre 16, 2025
Renderings of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, a planned nuclear plant near Richland, Wash., that is a partnership of Amazon, X-energy and Energy Northwest. (X-energy Illustration) A project to build one of the nation’s first next-generation nuclear facilities has just announced its name —...
PC or console? Microsoft’s new handheld gaming device raises questions about Xbox strategy
octubre 15, 2025
(Xbox Image) On the eve of the system’s release, tech reviewers across the internet are sharing their thoughts on the new ROG Xbox Ally, Microsoft’s long-anticipated foray into the portable gaming market. Announced back in June at the annual Xbox Showcase, the ROG Xbox Ally isn’t exactly what...
Seattle University President Eduardo Peñalver stepping down to lead Georgetown University
octubre 15, 2025
Eduardo Peñalver, president of Seattle University. (Yosef Kalinko Photo via Seattle U.) Seattle University President Eduardo Peñalver — credited with “a legacy of growth and innovation” — is leaving to become president of Georgetown University, the two Catholic Jesuit institutions announced...
OfferUp hit with new round of layoffs as marketplace plans to simplify its offerings
octubre 15, 2025
OfferUp CEO Todd Dunlap. (OfferUp Photo) Seattle-area used goods marketplace OfferUp is conducting another round of layoffs as it seeks to simplify its business and get back to focusing on the local user-to-user experience. In a memo to staff on Wednesday (in full below), CEO Todd Dunlap...
Electric Era’s new EV charging devices use AI to chat, answer questions and tell jokes
octubre 15, 2025
Electric Era released its new interactive EV chargers, called RetailEdge. (Electric Era Photo) Seattle startup Electric Era today unveiled a sleek, interactive EV charging device that uses artificial intelligence to converse with drivers as they’re juicing up their vehicles. The company...
F5 discloses major security breach linked to nation-state hackers
octubre 15, 2025
The F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. (F5 Photo) Cybersecurity and networking company F5 disclosed that a “highly sophisticated” nation-state threat actor infiltrated its internal systems this summer, stealing portions of the company’s BIG-IP source code and details about software...
Seattle Mariners social media success driven by ‘group chat’ vibe and prepping for the unpredictable
octubre 15, 2025
Images from the Seattle Mariners Instagram account, capturing the hype, viral moments, personalities and action on the field as the team makes a run in the Major League Baseball Playoffs this month. (@mariners via Instagram) There’s no better time to check the social media accounts of your...
Seattle startup led by brothers launches AI platform that lets workers query company data
octubre 15, 2025
From left: Maxwell and Connor Folley, co-founders of Alkemi. (Alkemi Photo) Seattle entrepreneur Connor Folley has teamed up with his brother Maxwell Folley to build out Alkemi, an AI platform that aims to let employees query their organization’s data in plain English — without technical skills...
LinkedIn’s list of top 50 U.S. startups includes three emerging companies from Seattle area
octubre 15, 2025
From left: Logos on LinkedIn for Seattle-area startups Chainguard, Common Room and Truveta. (Images via LinkedIn) LinkedIn released its annual list of the top 50 startups in the U.S. on Wednesday, and three Seattle-area companies made the cut. No. 18, Chainguard: The cybersecurity company...
New frontier for Seattle startups: Space, fusion, and battery companies buoy region’s VC activity
octubre 14, 2025
Left: Inside Group14’s manufacturing factory in Woodinville, Wash. Top right: An artist’s conception shows the upper stage of Stoke Space’s Nova rocket in orbit. Bottom right: Foundation work being done at the Helion Energy reactor site in Central Washington. (Photos via Group14, Stoke Space, and...
Tech Moves: Microsoft taps former British PM as advisor; Airtable hires OpenAI leader as new CTO; Oumi adds exec
octubre 14, 2025
Airtable CEO Howie Liu, left, and CTO David Azose. (Airtable Photo) — Seattle area tech executive David Azose is now chief technology officer for San Francisco’s Airtable. Azose joins the database and workflow automation company from OpenAI, where he was head of engineering for ChatGPT’s...
Seattle recruiting tech startup Humanly acquires 3 companies to expand AI hiring platform
octubre 14, 2025
Prem Kumar, CEO of Humanly, during an episode of the GeekWire series “Elevator Pitch.” in 2022. (GeekWire File Photo) Seattle-based startup Humanly is buying three recruiting technology companies — Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork — as it aims to build a comprehensive hiring platform that...
Co-working company Kiln opening first Washington state location in tech-heavy Seattle neighborhood
octubre 13, 2025
A Kiln co-working space in Gilbert, Ariz. (Kiln Photo) Kiln, a co-working and flex-office community with locations in multiple western U.S. states, is opening its first space in Washington state next year. The company confirmed a new lease of 32,276 feet in Seattle’s Fremont Lake Union Center...
Civic leaders pitch ambitious Seattle-Tacoma electric ferry plan as World Cup deadline looms
octubre 13, 2025
The Artemis EF-12 Escape on the water near San Francisco. (Artemis Photo) A pilot electric ferry service between Seattle and nearby Tacoma could debut next summer to serve the surge of World Cup tourists expected in the region — but questions about funding, ferry terminal locations and total...
Column: Why headlines about AI displacing jobs don’t match reality
octubre 13, 2025
(BigStock Image) There are two narratives unfolding in the press, in VC/founder circles, and in the boardroom. One is about AI automation and job displacement. The other is about layoffs, hiring freezes, and a shortage of entry-level positions. As expected, we assume these are intertwined....
Slalom vet Gretchen Peri joins WaTech to modernize how Washington state serves residents
octubre 13, 2025
Gretchen Peri. (WaTech Photo) Gretchen Peri has been involved in helping governments around the world find better ways to use technology for more than two decades. For the last 14 years, she led the Global Public & Social Impact practice at Slalom Consulting. She is now bringing her...
Seattle vs. Toronto: As Mariners and Blue Jays battle on the field, which city has the better tech hub?
octubre 12, 2025
Both Toronto and Seattle have futuristic landmarks that define their skylines: CN Tower in Toronto (left) and the Space Needle in Seattle. (GeekWire Photos) Seattle and Toronto are squaring off on the baseball diamond this week in the American League Championship Series. But how do the two...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 5, 2025
octubre 12, 2025
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 Oct. 5, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
‘Seis the moment’: Earthquake monitors measure shaking during Mariners’ epic playoff win in Seattle
octubre 11, 2025
A “Good Vibes Meter” shows the decibel levels inside T-Mobile Park during Game 5 of the American League Division Series in Seattle. Scientists from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network were also measuring seismic energy during the Mariners’ 3-2 win over Detroit. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor...
Vibe-coding a new reality: Chris Pirillo on the rise of AI-powered apps, features, and founders
octubre 11, 2025
Next on Chris Pirillo’s vibe coding to-do list: fixing the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive. (Photo courtesy Chris Pirillo) What if you could build a fully functional app just by describing what you want it to do? That’s the power of vibe coding, using AI to turn plain language into software,...
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