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GeekWire brings you the week's latest technology news, trends and insights, covering the world of technology from our home base in Seattle. Our regular news podcast features commentary and analysis from our editors and reporters, plus interviews with special guests.

  1. 1d ago

    Amazon's drones finally take off, inside Anduril's Seattle-area buildup, and an AirTag leads to a secret Amazon facility

    This week: Amazon's Prime Air drones are finally going national, nearly 13 years after Jeff Bezos unveiled the idea on 60 Minutes. GeekWire's John Cook goes inside Anduril's unmarked Bellevue office as the defense company builds toward 1,000 Seattle-area engineers. Plus: a reporter hides an AirTag in a rare book and tracks it to a secret Amazon book-scanning facility in Las Vegas. With John Cook and Todd Bishop; edited by Curt Milton. Related stories and links Mentioned at the top Want to know what Jeff Bezos brings to Liverpool FC? Study Amazon's Leadership Principles Amazon drone delivery Amazon drone delivery set to expand nationally, reaching nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year Amazon's big surprise: Working on autonomous flying delivery drones — GeekWire, December 2013 Jeff Bezos unveils the Prime Air prototype on 60 Minutes — YouTube Amazon Prime Air drone delivery expansion — Amazon Andy Jassy's 2025 letter to shareholders — Amazon Walmart, Wing expand drone delivery coverage — Supply Chain Dive The AirTag and the book-scanning facility How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned We tracked a shipment of rare books. It ended at an Amazon AI training facility — 404 Media AI companies are buying tons of old books because they're free of AI slop — 404 Media Trash Transparency Project — Basel Action Network America's e-waste: a GPS tracker tells all — PBS NewsHour Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors — Associated Press Anduril in the Seattle region Inside Anduril's AI warfighting buildup: Defense giant sees a path to 1,000 Seattle-area engineers Anduril exits Seattle shipyard following canceled Navy program and omission from new warship list Defense tech giant Anduril eyes new funding at $100B valuation as Seattle expansion draws protests — GeekWire, July 2026 AI weapons under scrutiny as activists plan weekend protest at Anduril's Seattle office — GeekWire, July 2026 Anduril lands $5B as defense giant builds autonomous warship operation in Seattle — GeekWire, May 2026 Defense giant Anduril is quietly building autonomous warships on Seattle's historic ship canal — GeekWire, April 2026 Military tech giant Anduril lands in Bellevue, doubling footprint in Seattle region — GeekWire, July 2025 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. Aug 15

    Bezos and Liverpool FC, a Meta vet's AI startup, Auger's Dallas move, and the demise of Microsoft's AI blob

    This week: What should Liverpool FC fans expect from Jeff Bezos as a member of the storied club's new minority ownership group? We consult the Amazon leadership principles for the answer. Plus, a tip and an SEC filing lead to a scoop on a former Meta AI director's new startup, the GeekWire Editorial Board convenes to decide whether Dave Clark's Auger stays on the GeekWire 200 after moving its HQ to Dallas, and Microsoft quietly semi-retires its AI blob. Bezos and Liverpool FC Group including Jeff Bezos buys minority stake in Liverpool FC, with option to become controlling owner — CNBC Liverpool: FSG sell minority stake to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos-backed consortium led by Amit Bhatia — Sky Sports Bezos, Bhatia buy a stake in Liverpool: What does it mean for the club and FSG? — ESPN Bezos, Bhatia, Saverin buy Liverpool stake at $7 billion valuation — Sportico The Redmen TV — independent Liverpool FC fan channel Noosphere and the Form D Ex-Meta AI research director raises $10.25M from Trilogy and Madrona for stealth physical AI startup Kevin T. Carlberg — founder's research site Auger and the GeekWire 200 This former Amazon exec is moving his startup's HQ to Texas, and he has a few notes for Seattle Dave and Leigh Anne Clark move Auger headquarters to Dallas — D Magazine GeekWire 200 Seattle Engineering Centers New map traces Washington state's tech 'universe' to a few key hubs, and shows what's at risk 'We can't become callous': KIRO hosts debate what a startup's departure to Texas says about Seattle's business climate — MyNorthwest Microsoft and Mico Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob Microsoft starts merging its Copilot consumer and business apps in advance of 'Super App' rollout With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. Aug 8

    Elon Musk's Starlink swagger, SpaceX vs. the cloud giants, and Seattle’s tech universe revisited

    This week: SpaceX reports its first quarter as a public company, and Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver a majority of the world's internet within a decade, leveraging production facilities in Redmond. Musk also explains the company's data center ambitions, calling terrestrial infrastructure a trivial problem next to reusable rockets.  Plus: we bring two Washington tech universe posters into the studio, 17 years apart. The 2009 original turns up gems including Boeing's unlikely connection to Classmates.com, a 1990s forerunner to Facebook. The 2009 poster also brings back memories of Teledesic, the Craig McCaw venture backed by Bill Gates that tried to beam internet from space decades before Starlink. Finally, the GeekWire Trivia Challenge returns, with a timely question about Google's origins. With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton. Related stories and links SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company SpaceX earnings: Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver most of the world's internet within a decade Elon Musk's Mars illusion — Dominic Gates on the gap between the Mars vision and the timeline Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on pad during test; Jeff Bezos vows to rebuild Blue Origin's rocket blowup hits NASA and Amazon Leo as well Mapping Washington's tech universe New map traces Washington state's tech 'universe' to a few key hubs, and shows what's at risk The Washington Tech Universe map from WTIA, and posters are available here Massive map shows how Seattle's tech ecosystem evolved over the last 30 years — the 2015 edition The original 2009 Puget Sound Tech Universe map. (Thanks to Ken Myer for digging this up!) GeekWire's Seattle engineering centers list GeekWire Trivia The startup idea that convinced a UW computer science legend to leave Google after 27 years What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  4. Aug 1

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

    This week: Microsoft and Amazon both reported quarterly numbers, and both stocks rose on cloud results that beat expectations. Is AI spending is paying off in real business? And in related news, Microsoft sees a rare annual headcount decline, hitting product R&D hardest.  Plus: Satya Nadella builds a Power BI dashboard out of an analyst's research report, and touts it on the earnings call to make a bigger point. Jeff Bezos names Amazon's chips business as the long-awaited fourth pillar. And AI House managing director Jacob Colker delivers a much-needed pep talk for Seattle tech, calling on the region to recognize and build on its strengths.  With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Related stories and links: Microsoft and Amazon earnings Microsoft Azure tops $100B in annual revenue as record AI spending cuts into cash flow AWS is 'booming,' but Amazon's free cash flow turns negative on record AI spending Microsoft R&D jobs drop for second straight year as total headcount falls for first time in a decade Which Microsoft businesses are growing and shrinking, according to obscure table in regulatory filing Amazon's fourth pillar Jeff Bezos says this business is becoming Amazon's next 'pillar' A rallying cry for Seattle tech Watch: A venture capitalist's passionate speech, a rallying cry, really, about Seattle Seattle's AI2 Incubator rebrands as AI House, and adds key investor as managing director 'I'm tired of that narrative': Seattle VC pushes back on tech exodus talk The Washington tech ecosystem New map traces Washington state's tech 'universe' to a few key hubs, and shows what's at risk After hiring AWS exec and raising $107M seed round, Virginia startup plants flag in Seattle area GeekWire's Seattle engineering centers list See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. Jul 29

    The greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil

    On this special mid-week episode, we're sharing a remarkable installment of GeekWire’s new podcast, Positive Charge, which is all about finding slivers of hope in climate and sustainability.  In their latest show, reporter Lisa Stiffler and producer Laura Scott find that hope in an unexpected place: an innovative alternative to traditional burial and cremation. It might not be the topic you were planning to delve into today, but we think you'll find it enlightening and inspiring. You can follow and subscribe for more at geekwire.com/positivecharge. John Cook and Todd Bishop will be back this weekend with the regular weekly show.  What if the greenest thing you ever do is die? This episode of Positive Charge digs into human composting — the process, also called natural organic reduction, that turns a body into clean soil instead of ash or embalmed remains. It's the end-of-life option Martha Stewart says she wants, and a Seattle entrepreneur is the reason it exists. Katrina Spade set out to build a climate-friendly alternative to cremation and burial while still a graduate student in architecture, drawing on a practice farmers have long used to compost livestock. Turning that idea into a business meant clearing two enormous hurdles: engineering a process that safely breaks a body down into soil in a matter of weeks, and rewriting laws that made the practice illegal in all 50 states. We go inside Recompose, her Seattle facility, where bodies rest in stainless steel vessels and naturally occurring microbes generate all the heat that does the work. Then the episode turns to the people signing up. Interest cuts across the political map, with as many customers coming from conservative Eastern Washington as from Seattle, and a surprising share of them are young. Tune in to hear why composting is catching on as death care, how the science actually works, and what it means to choose becoming soil. Sources and references Interviews: Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Recompose Micah Truman, founder and CEO of Return Home Elyssa Tappero, customer of Recompose and tsunami program manager for the Washington Emergency Management Division Additional sources: Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, chair of the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University Inside Recompose, where the human composting startup is ready to grow its formula beyond Seattle (GeekWire) 50+ & Unfiltered with Shawn Killinger, Episode 124 with Martha Stewart The environmental toll of cremating the dead (National Geographic) The Potential of Our Decay: Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape (Smithsonian) This episode was hosted by Lisa Stiffler and Laura Scott, and edited and produced by Laura Scott, with editorial assistance from Todd Bishop. Sponsored by Amazon Sustainability.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    The greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil

  6. Jul 25

    What's going on with Seattle startup funding, a Kalshi setback, Impinj's long game, and a smartphone detox

    This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Seattle startup funding drops 40% in the first half of the year while AI money floods everywhere else. We dig into the numbers and the implications for the region. Plus: a Seattle judge deals Kalshi a setback, Impinj marks a decade on the Nasdaq after a 26-year climb, and nearly 40 Seattleites trade their smartphones for flip phones for five weeks.  Related Stories Venture funding drops in Seattle area as AI boom reshapes startup world Helion raises $465M at $15.5B valuation as it aims to commercialize fusion UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S. engineering hub Anthropic expands in Seattle as AI boom offers hope for struggling office market Seattle judge deals blow to Kalshi, rejects prediction market's federal defense How Impinj has survived 26 years in a market that's 'just getting going' Ditch your smartphone for a flip phone for a month? With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  7. Jul 18

    Silicon Valley icon Vinod Khosla: What kind of Seattle Seahawks owner will he be?

    This week: Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla's family is leading a group that's buying the Seattle Seahawks for a record $9.6 billion. We dug into hours of his talks and interviews to answer the big questions: Who is this guy, why does he want an NFL team, and what does his track record tell us about the kind of owner he'll be? Plus, the blind spot that could get him into trouble. Featuring highlights from his 2015 talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Also: A mystery trove of aerospace artifacts is rescued from a Seattle-area electronics recycler, and we want to hear about your coolest tech history find. Send your comments, voice memos and photos to todd@geekwire.com. With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  8. Jul 11

    Microsoft's reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders

    On this week's show, we're out on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft's latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the surprising rise of hardware companies on the GeekWire 200. Then we sit down with four guests to talk about how AI is reshaping how they build:  Jana Schuster of StackIQ, whose AI-native platform helps companies find redundancy in their software spending — like Rocket Money, but for business — with a small team. Blake Resnick and David Benowitz of Brinc Drones, whose mechanical engineers are now vibe coding their own prototypes; Boaz Ashkenazy of Shift AI, who's setting up always-on agents and rethinking how we interact with AI tools. Finally, the GeekWire Trivia Challenge: how a longtime T-Mobile executive got his start in the wireless business, and the star-studded history of T-Mobile celebrity endorsers. Stories mentioned: Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs, about 2% globally, revamps salesforce and launches massive Xbox overhaul GeekWire 200 update: New unicorns and a hardware surge remake our list of top Pacific NW startups Former GitHub CEO's startup Entire unveils its answer to the crush of AI coding agents Chicago software company plants flag in Seattle area as new leadership team seeks AI talent T-Mobile exec Mike Katz exits after 28 years, as carrier reshuffles top ranks and taps ex-AT&T leader With Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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GeekWire brings you the week's latest technology news, trends and insights, covering the world of technology from our home base in Seattle. Our regular news podcast features commentary and analysis from our editors and reporters, plus interviews with special guests.

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