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THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES
Tech Moves: Microsoft names exec; Remitly CPO/CTO departs; AWS veteran to head Synthesia in Seattle
Microsoft names chief digital safety officer; Remitly's chief product and technology officer departs; and an AWS leader joins Synthesia to oversee its new Seattle office.
Moment of ‘Zen’: Another billionaire’s superyacht turns heads in Seattle
“Zen,” a $200 million, 289-foot yacht reportedly owned by Chinese billionaire Wu Guangming, motored smoothly through the Ballard Locks and out to Puget Sound, drawing onlookers along the railings of the popular Seattle destination.
After hiring AWS exec and raising $107M seed round, Virginia startup plants flag in Seattle area
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Surprise: Valve’s new Steam Machine is here, but the price is the real shocker
Valve Software abruptly opened reservations for its latest Steam Machine on Monday, but due to the ongoing PC component shortage, did so at a significantly higher price than expected.
Building a ‘digital twin’ 10,000 feet underground: PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo team up on geothermal AI
As tech giants hunt for massive amounts of clean electricity, PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo Energy are partnering to develop a new public tool that aims to eliminate the guesswork of drilling into the Earth's molten depths.
Microsoft’s next big thing for the cloud: an agent that keeps its cool when everything falls apart
Microsoft is promising relief to engineers who get woken up at 3 a.m.
This 3-foot-tall robot wants to be your kid’s classroom buddy and your mom’s new friend
Mind Children Robotics, a Seattle-area startup co-founded by AGI researcher Ben Goertzel, is building Codey — a child-sized social robot priced under $10,000 and aimed at classrooms, hospitals and senior care.
Amazon MGM Studios drops film about Sam Altman months after tech giant’s $50B OpenAI deal
Amazon MGM Studios has backed away from "Artificial," a nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
‘Digit’ maker Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B deal — here’s what the filings say about its finances
Salem, Ore.-based Agility Robotics, whose two-legged Digit robots have been tested inside Amazon warehouses, is set to become the first publicly traded U.S.
Microsoft says its data centers use 90% less water than its earliest facilities as public concern grows
Microsoft cuts data center water intensity by 90% and hits a major replenishment milestone as tech giants face growing public backlash over resource consumption.
GeekWire 200 update: New unicorns and a hardware surge remake our list of top Pacific NW startups
The latest GeekWire 200, our quarterly ranking of the top Pacific Northwest startups, reflects a shift toward companies building physical products — rockets, fusion reactors, robots and space-based data centers.
Filing: Sony cuts 292 jobs at Bungie in Bellevue following end of ‘Destiny 2’ development
Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based creator of the Halo and Destiny video game franchises, was hit by new round of layoffs Wednesday as the Sony-owned studio undergoes a reorganization following the end of development on its long-running online shooter Destiny 2.
Seattle-area young entrepreneurs capture third-straight win in global TiE startup pitch contest
A team of Seattle-area high school students won the 2026 TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Global Pitch Competition earlier this month, notching a three-peat for the TYE Seattle chapter.
Amperity hit with layoffs as AI changes the shape of the customer data startup and how it operates
The company, which employs more than 200 globally, did not specify how may jobs were cut, only that "a number of talented people are leaving."
Transcript: Here’s what Bill Gates told lawmakers in his recent Epstein testimony
The U.S. House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released the transcript of a closed-door interview in which Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates answered lawmakers' questions, under oath, about his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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