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Data center resistance comes home to Seattle as council considers a one-year freeze

As Amazon and Microsoft pour billions into AI, Seattle residents push back against new data centers over worries about rising energy costs and environmental impacts. Read More

‘One of a kind’: Tributes pour in for S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, beloved tech mentor and friend

A consistent picture emerged: Somasegar was kind, generous with his time, humble, and a steadying presence. To many, those qualities mattered even more than the investments and decisions he made. Read More

Former Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a new gig — startup CEO

The company was started by apparel industry veterans Raj Shah and Akhil Shah, raising $540,000 with a 2016 Kickstarter campaign. Harrell will succeed Raj Shah, who will continue as chairman of the board. Read More

At Tech Alliance annual luncheon, a stark analysis and a call to action

A McKinsey analysis presented at the Technology Alliance's State of Technology luncheon warns that Washington's nation-leading economic growth is projected to slow to the national average, driven by negative domestic migration, rising costs, and heavy reliance on a handful of giant employers. Read More

Seattle, we’ve got an image problem

GeekWire co-founder John Cook argues that Seattle's increasingly anti-business national image threatens the city's standing as an innovation hub, exactly 30 years after Newsweek celebrated it as one of America's great boomtowns. Read More

A Beacon Hill Photographer Focuses on the Mental Health of the BIPOC Trans Community

Lab of UW Nobel winner cracks challenge of creating roomier protein cages to deliver genetic medicines

Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design have engineered larger, virus-like protein cages to one day deliver larger genetic payloads. Read More

Starfish Space shifts its sights to Australian satellite for orbital docking demonstration

Seattle-area startup maneuvers its Otter Pup 2 spacecraft into position almost a year after its launch. Read More

Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’

In a CNBC interview, Jeff Bezos offered the most detailed public description yet of Project Prometheus, calling the secretive startup an "artificial general engineer" building next-generation design tools for physical objects. Read More

Amazon Leo’s leaders provide an inside look at the satellite broadband network’s past and future

Find out how Jeff Bezos got the ball rolling in the competition with SpaceX's Starlink for space-based connectivity — and how Project Kuiper became Amazon Leo. Read More

S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups

Friends and colleagues remembered S. "Soma" Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft developer leader and Madrona managing director, as a generous mentor to developers and founders, and a fixture of Seattle's tech community. Read More

Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption

Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin, founder Rich Barton, chairman Barry Diller, and former CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tell the story of Expedia's 30-year evolution from a small project inside Microsoft to a global travel conglomerate navigating the age of AI agents. Read More