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THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES
How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned
404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has roots in a Seattle non-profit group. Read More
We’ve entered Seattle’s Third Act
A year after GeekWire asked where Seattle's superstar AI startups were, two local venture capitalists offer an answer: they're here, but they build rockets, geothermal plants and autonomous off-road vehicles rather than software. A guest opinion from Ascend's Nate Bek and Plug and Play's Ben Eisinger. Read More
Qualtrics cuts jobs in Seattle, Utah and overseas as it absorbs $6.75B acquisition
Qualtrics laid off employees across Seattle, Provo and international offices Wednesday, three months after closing its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta. The company declined to disclose how many jobs were cut, but a WARN notice reviewed by GeekWire indicates at least 50 cuts were made at its Seattle headquarters. Read More
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Anduril exits Seattle shipyard following canceled Navy program and omission from new warship list
After the U.S. Navy abruptly canceled a key unmanned warship program, defense giant Anduril quietly vacated its shipyard site on Seattle's Lake Washington Ship Canal—even as its broader regional footprint continues to surge toward 1,000 local engineers. Read More
Internal memo: Eight execs out at Expedia Group in AI-driven shakeup
Expedia Group is parting ways with at least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents as it reorganizes its product and technology organization around AI, according to an internal memo obtained by GeekWire. The memo from the company's product and technology chiefs also names five leaders who were promoted. Read More
GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform
GitHub was down for more than three hours Monday morning, breaking the website, code review tools, automated build systems and Copilot. It's the latest reliability problem for a platform whose capacity planning has been outrun by AI coding tools. Read More
Tech Moves: AWS data leader jumps to Oracle; Seattle Children’s names new CIO; Zillow’s new legal chief
An AWS director who ran the launch of Oracle Database@AWS has joined Oracle. Also in this edition: Seattle Children's names a Stanford informatics leader as CIO, Zillow fills a newly created chief legal and policy role and a former Convoy executive is Uber Freight's new product chief. Read More
Inside Anduril’s AI warfighting buildup: Defense giant sees a path to 1,000 Seattle-area engineers
GeekWire toured Anduril's unmarked Bellevue office, where the defense company is building augmented reality glasses, digital night vision and edge computing hardware for the U.S. military. Senior vice president Tom Keane says the regional engineering workforce could easily grow from 560 people to 1,000 in the not-too-distant future. Read More
Go inside Endurance Energy, the Seattle startup tapping underwater volcanoes for geothermal power
Endurance Energy is running full-tilt in its cavernous new Seattle facility as it prepares to deploy a 100-kilowatt generator to an oceanic volcano off the coast of Oregon. The company is betting that the technology can one day electrify entire cities. We got a look inside. Read More
North America’s biggest book sorter just opened in the Seattle area
The King County Library System opened a $5.2 million sorting installation in Renton that handles the 25,000 items moving through its 50 libraries each day. Robotic arms destack totes every 15 seconds and route materials into 186 delivery chutes. Read More
BuyWander moves HQ from Spokane to Seattle area as retail-returns startup grows team to 325 people
BuyWander, the Spokane-born retail returns marketplace, has moved its headquarters to the Seattle area and grown to 325 employees as it expands nationally, adding four executives including two former Amazon leaders. Read More
Former Microsoft product manager launches bid to end clock change in Washington state, Congress or not
Scott Thurlow spent 32 years at Microsoft dreading the twice-yearly time change, and the "meeting chaos" it brought across time zones and countries. Weeks after retiring, he launched a campaign to end Washington's clock changes without waiting for Congress, with a 2028 ballot initiative as the backup if lawmakers won't act. Read More
Amazon drone delivery set to expand nationally, reaching nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year
Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service is finally going national. It's a milestone nearly 13 years in the making: Jeff Bezos unveiled the program on 60 Minutes in December 2013, to widespread skepticism. Both the technology and the regulations took far longer than expected. Read More
Protesters dressed as rogue AI agents target OpenAI in Bellevue with balloons and hot pink vests
A national campaign against AI expansion made its Seattle-area stop Friday at OpenAI's Bellevue office, where demonstrators in hot pink "AI agent" vests entered the lobby with balloons and a chorus of "Happy Rogue Day to OpenAI." The protest drew national attention. Read More
Filings show Amazon’s stake in electric trucking company that just struck a deal for 500 Tesla Semis
Einride's first earnings report as a public company shows Amazon holding warrants for about 12% of the Swedish electric trucking company, vesting as Amazon buys freight services. Einride also announced a deal to deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers. Read More
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