Seattle Tech Week notebook: AI, startups, and the best insights and takeaways we heard

GeekWire's Todd Bishop reports from Seattle Tech Week 2026, where more than 250 events made artificial intelligence the ...

What’s his angle? Teen frustrated by plastic protractor reimagines the classic classroom tool

Wenxin Fang of Redmond, Wash., launched a hardware startup to create the ZeroPivot Protractor, a sleek, precision-machined aluminum replacement for the tool that gave him problems in math class.

Amazon’s next big business, Satya Nadella’s DIY app, and a VC’s rallying cry for Seattle tech

Microsoft and Amazon both beat cloud expectations this week, and Microsoft's headcount fell for the first time since 2016. Also on the show: Satya Nadella builds a dashboard out of a Morgan Stanley ...

The Quality Engine: How TSMC Became the Benchmark for Chipmaking Precision

Every advanced smartphone, AI accelerator, and data-center processor shipped today traces back to a small number of factories ...
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Intrepid Oregon Fund launches with $4M from the state to invest in climate and tech startups

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Apr 25, 2024 at 12:00 pm April 24, 2024 at 11:07 pm Portland Seed Fund’s Angela Jackson (left) and Steve ...
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LevelTen lands $65M from Microsoft, Google to expand clean energy marketplace services

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Jul 16, 2024 at 3:00 am July 16, 2024 at 7:00 am Wind turbines in the Pacific Northwest.
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Seattle solar servicing company Omnidian to pay $7M for a slice of bankrupt Sunnova’s business

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Jul 10, 2025 at 8:41 am July 10, 2025 at 10:26 am A solar energy installation. Photo by American ...

Protein design

Synthetic genomes and gene editing are big things today, but the next big things in biotechnology could be proteins that are… Read More Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline ...

Microsoft R&D jobs drop for second straight year as total headcount falls for first time in a decade

Microsoft's annual report shows the company employed 223,000 people as of June 30, down 5,000 from a year earlier and its first annual decline since 2016. Product R&D roles accounted for most of the ...

Moving faster than planned, AI drug developer Accipiter Bio quietly tops up seed round with $10.5M

Seattle biotech startup Accipiter Bio has raised an additional $10.5 million from existing investors to accelerate its work ...

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