UW’s Allen School names Dan Grossman interim director as Magdalena Balazinska shifts gears

After nearly seven years at the helm of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Magda Balazinska's term ...

Amazon tops $3 trillion and Microsoft surges as Wall Street sets aside AI spending fears, for now

Amazon passed $3 trillion in market value for the first time Monday and Microsoft climbed 5%, extending a rally that followed ...

This civic activist used AI to assess how state Supreme Court candidates might rule on the millionaires’ tax

Viet Nguyen, a Seattle communications executive and former political campaign manager, used AI to build Culliton2026.org, a ...

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Viet Nguyen, a Seattle communications executive and former political campaign manager, used AI to build Culliton2026.org, a site that gauges how candidates for the Washington Supreme Court might rule ...

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Viet Nguyen, a Seattle communications executive and former political campaign manager, used AI to build Culliton2026.org, a site that gauges how candidates for the Washington Supreme Court might rule ...

Banking on Relationships: Why Small Businesses Need More Than Capital

When Joseph Casebeer launched Takamori Robot in 2025, he knew how to build robots, and had a passion for teaching and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...