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The Emerald City landed at No. 4 overall in the newly released Oxford Economics Global Cities Index 2026, which scored 1,000 major urban centers across economics, human capital, quality of life, environment, and governance. Read More
Seattle-based startup Nimbus Aerospace has completed successful test flights of its quarter-scale hybrid aircraft prototype in Oregon as it works toward a 2028 full-scale build.
Meg McCann didn't take the traditional path to leading a major marine science institution, moving from trial lawyer and state official to CEO of the Seattle Aquarium.
See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 20, 2026. Read More
AI House brought investors from Boston, New York, Colorado, the Bay Area and other cities to Seattle for a demo day where 25 early-stage startups pitched, many of them from outside the incubator's own portfolio. The goal was to bring more outside capital to local founders. Read More
Shankar Sundaram, a former Boeing engineer and enterprise sales leader, said the ultimate goal of East West Club is to create a "third place" in the city that's centered around genuine connection rather than corporate networking or status. Read More
Microsoft's revamped Copilot app adds AI coding, always-on agents and full versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint as the company competes with OpenAI and Anthropic and shifts more of its AI pricing to usage-based billing. Read More
A new state filing lists all 277 positions Microsoft eliminated in the Seattle region, one job title at a time. Art, game production, game design, technical art and audio design account for 77 of them, with software engineering the largest single category at 60. Read More
Microsoft is moving communications out of its marketing group and under Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, as CEO Satya Nadella calls for a fundamentally new approach that makes employees a bigger part of how the company tells its story. Read More
New reports this week from The New York Times and NBC's TODAY show detail how residents in Richardson, Texas, — a Dallas suburb near a major Amazon fulfillment facility — are bearing the brunt of Prime Air’s ambitious expansion. Read More
Founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers Breck Fresen and Nick End, Row Zero set out to build a spreadsheet capable of processing millions of rows at cloud scale without lagging or crashing. Read More
All systems go for Starfish's Otter space vehicle, which is designed to inspect inoperable satellites up close for NASA's SSPICY mission. Read More
Speaking at Climate Week NYC, Alaska Air Group sustainability chief Ryan Spies outlined how thin margins and complex physics are driving the carrier's strategic bets on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The fresh capital propels the Seattle startup into unicorn territory as it works to connect billions of everyday, off-the-shelf devices directly to space. Read More
Impacted positions span across technology, product, and corporate roles — including data scientists, software engineers, finance managers, and senior leadership. Read More
Mayor Katie Wilson's proposed budget closes a $175 million deficit through spending cuts and leaves the JumpStart payroll tax untouched, offering big tech employers a period of tax stability. Read More
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