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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 26, 2025
November 02, 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. 26, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
ChatGPT as a soccer advisor: Seattle Reign FC uses AI to develop winning defensive strategy
November 01, 2025
Seattle Reign FC head coach Laura Harvey. (Reign FC Photo) Generative AI has made its way onto the professional soccer field. Laura Harvey, head coach of Seattle Reign FC, said this week that ChatGPT helped her come up with a new defensive strategy. Speaking on the Soccerish Podcast, Harvey...
Seattle’s tech paradox: Amazon’s layoffs collide with the AI boom — or is it a bubble?
November 01, 2025
Image created by Google Gemini based on the audio of this week’s GeekWire Podcast. This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Why is Amazon laying off 14,000 people in the middle of an AI boom — and is it really a boom at all? We dig into the contradiction at the heart of Seattle’s tech scene,...
Filing: Seattle-area vaccine company Inventprise laying off 76 employees
November 01, 2025
(Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash) Inventprise, a Redmond, Wash.–based biotechnology company developing vaccines for infectious diseases, is laying off 76 workers, according to a new filing from the Washington Employment Security Department. GeekWire has reached out to the company for...
Teen finds a way to simplify lost and found with an app that uses AI in the search process
November 01, 2025
Neil Kumar of Bellevue, Wash., one of the winners of the city’s Civic Innovation Challenge. (Photo courtesy of Neil Kumar) Neil Kumar has been known to leave a water bottle or a jacket at school or the gym, marking himself among the millions of Americans whose forgotten belongings end up in a...
Not so trivial: Seattle sports anchor scores three wins on ‘Jeopardy!’ and a ‘lifetime of memories’
October 31, 2025
Aaron Levine, sports director at FOX 13 in Seattle, during his appearance on “Jeopardy!” this week. (Sony Pictures Television Photo) In the midst of the Seattle Mariners’ win streak back in September, sports anchor Aaron Levine was going on a little run of his own, as a contestant on...
After another major outage, Alaska Airlines taps Accenture to audit technology systems
October 31, 2025
An Alaska Airlines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Alaska Airlines said Friday it has hired global consulting firm Accenture to conduct a full audit of its technology systems, part of a broader push to improve reliability after two major IT...
Tech Moves: iSpot and MoxiWorks name new executives; F5 and Trupanion make board changes
October 31, 2025
Julie Van Ullen. (iSpot Photo) — Julie Van Ullen is now president and chief revenue officer for iSpot, a Bellevue, Wash., company that measures the impact of advertising campaigns on TV and video streaming. Van Ullen serves on the board of directors for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB),...
‘Big Beautiful’ tax benefit: Amazon and other tech giants reap the rewards of new law, for now
October 31, 2025
Amazon is doubling down on AI investments under CEO Andy Jassy, who says recent job cuts were about reducing bureaucracy, not cutting costs. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon’s cash tax bill has dropped sharply this year under a new U.S. tax law that lets companies immediately deduct...
Out of Office: From startups to spices, VC finds ingredients for inspiration in his love of cooking
October 31, 2025
Vivek Ladsariya plating bread pudding with cardamom ice cream at a pop-up restaurant he ran with a friend when he lived in San Francisco. (Photo courtesy of Vivek Ladsariya) Out of Office is a new GeekWire series spotlighting the passions and hobbies that members of the Seattle-area tech...
Survey: Two-thirds of AI-native startups let AI write most of their code
October 31, 2025
(Photo by Radowan Nakif Rehan on Unsplash) [Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Marcelo Calbucci, a longtime Seattle tech and startup community leader.] This month, I ran a survey with early-stage founders from Seattle-based Foundations about their use of AI tools and agents. There were some...
Amazon’s Anthropic investment boosts its quarterly profits by $9.5B
October 30, 2025
Amazon just opened Project Rainier, one of the world’s largest AI compute clusters, in partnership with Anthropic. Amazon’s third-quarter profits rose 38% to $21.2 billion, but a big part of the jump had nothing to do with its core businesses of selling goods or cloud services. The company...
‘It’s culture’: Amazon CEO says massive corporate layoffs were about agility — not AI or cost-cutting
October 30, 2025
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at the GeekWire Summit in 2021. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs — wasn’t triggered by financial strain or artificial intelligence replacing workers, but rather a push to...
Zillow posts $676M in Q3 revenue as rentals and mortgage businesses power growth
October 30, 2025
(Zillow Photo) This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. Zillow continues to be an overachiever, at least with its financial performance. The home search giant’s revenue has consistently beat expectations for the past two years, and Q3 was no different: Revenue was $676 million...
Amazon stock soars 11% after topping Q3 estimates with $180B in revenue, $21B in profits
October 30, 2025
An Amazon Prime delivery van outside the company’s Seattle headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon beat estimates for its third-quarter earnings with $180.2 billion in revenue, up 13% year-over-year, and earnings per share of $1.95, up from $1.43 in the year-ago period....
The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest
October 30, 2025
A life sciences panel at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference Oct. 29, 2025 in Seattle. From left: Marc Cummings, Life Sciences Washington; Dr. Bonnie Nagel, Oregon Health Sciences University; Dr. Tom Lynch, Fred Hutch Cancer Center. (“PhotosbyKim” Photo) Leaders in the Pacific Northwest...
Inside the UW Allen School: Six ‘grand challenges’ shaping the future of computer science
October 30, 2025
Magdalena Balazinska, director of the UW Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, opens the school’s annual research showcase Wednesday in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is reframing what it...
Slowly but surely, high-speed rail backers believe Cascadia mega-project will become a reality
October 30, 2025
(Photo by 7 on Unsplash) Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — and to prepare for a long trip. With a lengthy and uncertain timeline...
Fresh off $225M raise, live shopping company Whatnot will boost Seattle headcount in Amazon’s backyard
October 30, 2025
(Whatnot Photo) Live-shopping startup Whatnot plans to grow its new Seattle outpost following a $225 million funding round announced this week. The company aims to hire more than 75 employees in the region over the next six months — tripling its current local headcount — across product,...
Microsoft beats expectations, reports nearly $35B in Q1 capital spending amid Azure outage
October 29, 2025
GeekWire File Photo Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and profits ahead of analysts’ expectations on Wednesday, with Azure revenue growth climbing to 40%. The earnings report came as the company continued to deal with the lingering effects of a widespread cloud outage that...
Microsoft’s Azure reports cloud outage, disrupting global customers including Alaska Airlines
October 29, 2025
Microsoft logo. (GeekWire Photo) An outage on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services Wednesday morning disrupted operations for customers worldwide including Alaska Airlines, Xbox users and Microsoft 365 subscribers. The incident came just ahead of Microsoft’s quarterly earnings call today and...
Amazon layoffs hit software engineers hardest in Washington
October 29, 2025
Amazon’s headquarters towers and The Spheres in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Software development engineers make up the largest group of employees affected by Amazon’s latest round of layoffs in its home state. GeekWire reported Tuesday on a new filing from the Washington...
Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip
October 29, 2025
Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith at the 2025 Cascade Innovation Corridor Conference. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) It’s rare for a tech executive to cue up a video mocking themselves — but that’s just what Microsoft President Brad Smith did on Tuesday...
Beta’s unique electric airplane flies into Seattle to wow state officials and aviation experts
October 29, 2025
The ALIA CX300 electric airplane from Beta Technologies on approach at Boeing Field in Seattle. (Steve Rice Photo) More than 117 years after Seattle residents first saw a flying machine in the sky, a unique aircraft over Jet City can still turn heads. That happened this week with the arrival...
With earnings on tap, Microsoft touches $4 trillion again after reaching OpenAI deal
October 29, 2025
Microsoft reports earnings Wednesday afternoon for the September quarter. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) With a new OpenAI partnership in hand, Microsoft is going into its earnings report Wednesday afternoon with a resolution to one of the biggest questions about its business. The...
Worth a mention: Seattle tech vets take on Google Alerts with Alertmouse, a startup to track who’s talking about you
October 29, 2025
The co-founders of Alertmouse, from left: Nathan Kriege, Rand Fishkin and Adam Doppelt, along with Britt Klontz, founder of PR firm Vada Communications, who helped beta test the product. (LinkedIn Photos) A trio of veteran entrepreneurs have joined forces to create a new Seattle startup — and...
Radical’s full-size prototype for a stratospheric drone makes first flight
October 29, 2025
A prototype for Radical’s Evenstar stratospheric solar-powered airplane flies over its Oregon test range. (Radical Photo) Seattle-based Radical says it has put a full-size prototype for a solar-powered drone through its first flight, marking one low-altitude step in the startup’s campaign to...
Seattle startup TestSprite raises $6.7M to become ‘testing backbone’ for AI-generated code
October 29, 2025
TestSprite founders Yunhao Jiao (left) and Rui Li. (TestSprite Photo) In the era of AI-generated software, developers still need to make sure their code is clean. That’s where TestSprite wants to help. The Seattle startup announced $6.7 million in seed funding to expand its platform that...
Filing: Amazon cuts more than 2,300 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs
October 28, 2025
GeekWire File Photo Amazon will lay off 2,303 corporate employees in Washington state, primarily in its Seattle and Bellevue offices, according to a filing with the state Employment Security Department that provides the first geographic breakdown of the company’s 14,000 global job cuts. A...
Amazon layoffs reaction: ‘Thought I was a top performer but guess I’m expendable’
October 28, 2025
Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Reaction to a huge round of layoffs rippled across Amazon and beyond on Tuesday as the Seattle-based tech giant confirmed that it was slashing 14,000 corporate and tech jobs. We’ve rounded up some of what’s being said...
Bill Gates urges world to ‘refocus’ climate goals, pushes back on emissions targets
October 28, 2025
Cipher executive editor Amy Harder and Bill Gates at the Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle on Oct. 19, 2022. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Less than two weeks ahead of the United Nations climate conference, Bill Gates posted a memo on his personal blog encouraging folks to just calm down...
Ferguson’s AI balancing act: Washington governor wants to harness innovation while minimizing harms
October 28, 2025
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson speaks at Seattle AI Week, at the AI House on Pier 70 along the city’s waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson is threading the needle when it comes to artificial intelligence. Ferguson made a brief appearance at the opening...
Helion gives behind-the-scenes tour of secretive 60-foot fusion prototype as it races to deployment
October 28, 2025
Stacks of pallets containing power units that deliver massive pulses of energy to Helion’s Polaris fusion generator. (Helion Photo) EVERETT, Wash. — In an industrial stretch of Everett is a boxy, windowless building called Ursa. Inside that building is a vault built from concrete blocks up to 5...
A tale of two Seattles in the age of AI: Harsh realities and new hope for the tech community
October 28, 2025
The opening panel at Seattle AI Week 2025, from left: Randa Minkarah, WTIA chief operating executive; Joe Nguyen, Washington commerce director; Rep. Cindy Ryu; Nathan Lambert, Allen Institute for AI; and Brittany Jarnot, Salesforce. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Seattle is looking to celebrate...
Microsoft gets 27% stake in OpenAI, and a $250B Azure commitment
October 28, 2025
Sam Altman and OpenAI announced a new deal with Microsoft, setting revised terms for future AI development. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft and OpenAI announced the long-awaited details of their new partnership agreement Tuesday morning — with concessions on both sides that keep...
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