Helion funding round grows to $500M amid uncertainty over fusion startup’s Microsoft timeline

An aerial view of Orion, Helion Energy's planned fusion plant being built in Malaga, Wash. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy on ...

Providence to receive $1.1B from Nike co-founder to build women’s health hospital in Oregon

Providence will receive $1.1 billion from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny — one of the largest gifts ever ...

Interlune raises $5M for initiatives that go beyond mining the moon

SAFE offering provides cash for lunar infrastructure development in advance of Seattle-based space startup's next priced ...

Seattle’s Nuance Labs raises $50M to give AI models human expression and nuance

Founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, the research lab is ...

America’s machinists are retiring, and two startup founders in their 20s want to salvage what they know

Neuramill is building software that captures how experienced machinists decide to make a part, then applies that knowledge to ...

Goldman Sachs plants flag in Bellevue, opening hub for more than 125 AI and cloud engineers

Goldman Sachs is expanding its Seattle-area technology footprint with a new Bellevue engineering hub that will house more ...

Sen. Maria Cantwell warns of autonomous AI ‘swarms’ as she calls for federal guardrails

Highlighting recent security breaches and industry alarms, Washington state's senior senator says Congress has "lost three ...

Uncommon Thinkers 2026: Last call for nominations for Seattle’s boldest innovators

Nominations for GeekWire’s 2026 Uncommon Thinkers Awards close Friday. Nominate a Seattle-area innovator who is challenging ...

Agility’s new Digit 5 robot lifts 50 pounds, works 20+ hours a day and operates alongside people

Agility Robotics, which is preparing to go public through a SPAC merger, unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid robot it says can work safely alongside people in warehouses and factories. The company says the ...

Julie Harris

Julie Harris has been appointed vice president of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group at the Seattle-based Allen Institute.

Open-Source AI: Industry Growing Up or the End of the Open Model Era?

This spring, Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5-Omni – a powerful multimodal model. The flagship versions? API-only. The lightweight ...

Terry Myerson retires as Truveta CEO, with co-founders stepping in to lead $1B health data startup

Truveta co-founders Jay Nanduri and Ryan Ahern will serve as interim co-CEOs of the health data company, which Myerson helped build from a pandemic-era idea into a business with 500 employees and 30 ...