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Who should run Nvidia? Our picks for Jensen Huang’s successor, whether the board likes it or not
November 14, 2026
Jensen Huang, top left, and 11 executives mentioned in this story as possible successors. Top row, from left: Huang, Rene Haas, Colette Kress and Ian Buck. Middle: Lisa Su, Thomas Kurian, Peter DeSantis and Dave Treadwell. Bottom: Amy Hood, Matt Garman, Judson Althoff and Nick Parker. (Company and...
‘I hope this email finds you’: Microsoft declares outage over as the world digs out of its inbox
November 14, 2026
Microsoft says it has restored service after a Microsoft 365 outage cut off email in more than 70 countries. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Steven Sinofsky was relieved this week to finally give up a title he never wanted. “Somewhat happy to say I am no longer responsible for the worst...
Nvidia’s CEO meltdown, who could replace Jensen Huang, and our latest AI tips and tricks
November 14, 2026
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we react to the sudden downfall of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose resignation Nvidia announced Thursday after reports of extramarital affairs, including one with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. We discuss the governance gaps at the world’s most...
Gov. Ferguson seeks $10M to help develop Eastern Wash. clean-energy hub
November 14, 2026
Gov. Bob Ferguson proposes $10 million for infrastructure construction at the Northwest Advanced Clean Energy Park at an event at the Local 598 Union Hall in Richland, Wash. (Governor’s Office Photo) Gov. Bob Ferguson is proposing $10 million to fund basic infrastructure needed for the Northwest...
Officials blame aging FAA telecom gear as U.S. airspace reopens, see no link to Microsoft or AI
November 14, 2026
Updated with officials’ explanation of the cause and the reopening of U.S. airspace. The nationwide ground stop that halted U.S. commercial air travel Friday was not caused by the Microsoft 365 outage that began a day earlier, federal officials said at an evening news conference, blaming...
Blue Origin puts its space station plans on hold to concentrate on moon missions instead
November 13, 2026
Artwork shows an early conception for the Orbital Reef space station, a project led by Blue Origin. (Blue Origin Media) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has decided not to seek further NASA funding for its Orbital Reef space station project in order to tighten its focus on lunar...
Araceli raises $4.5M for drug discovery tools aimed at reducing animal testing
November 13, 2026
Araceli Biosciences’ imaging platform, which includes an automated microscope plus software that produces images of cells and measures their individual features such as size, shape and protein location. The device can rapidly analyze high volumes of cells. (Araceli Photo) Araceli Biosciences, a...
Uncommon Thinkers: Alexis Harroun aims for space with a new engine — and stays grounded
November 13, 2026
Juno Propulsion co-founder and CEO Alexis Harroun is working on rotating detonation engines at her startup. (Juno Propulsion Photo) Editor’s note: This series profiles five Seattle-area “Uncommon Thinkers,” who will be recognized Dec. 10 at the GeekWire Gala in partnership with Greater Seattle...
‘A huge pain in the ass’: Microsoft 365 starts to recover after a day of global email turmoil
November 13, 2026
Microsoft says delayed email is close to cleared after an outage that cut off Outlook for much of Thursday. (Unsplash Photo / Ed Hardie) Updated at 4 p.m. PT Nov. 13 with additional Microsoft statements. If emails sent by Outlook users on Thursday are just now landing in your inbox, no, you...
OfferUp co-founder sees ‘mini power plants’ in buildings full of EVs
November 12, 2026
Nick Huzar, co-founder and CEO of Juicer Energy, speaking at an event hosted by GeekWire and Bank of America at the Bellevue showroom of Ferrari of Seattle on Nov. 10, 2026. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Nick Huzar co-founded Juicer Energy in 2023 to make electric vehicle charging more...
Amazon tops Forbes’ list of America’s best companies, edging out Apple for No. 1
November 12, 2026
Office towers and the Spheres on Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon is the best company in America, according to Forbes. The Seattle tech giant took the No. 1 spot on the publication’s 2027 “America’s Best Companies” list, moving up from No....
XML pioneer Jean Paoli’s startup Docugami acquired by Inveniam after open-source partnership
November 12, 2026
Docugami CEO Jean Paoli is joining Inveniam as chief product and technology officer. Docugami, the Seattle-area startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, has been acquired by Inveniam, a Detroit-area company that uses blockchain to help investors verify the data behind assets such as commercial...
Nvidia’s interim CEO spent 13 years behind the scenes at Microsoft
November 12, 2026
Colette Kress, Nvidia’s CFO since 2013, will keep that role while serving as interim CEO. (Nvidia Photo) Colette Kress, named Nvidia’s interim CEO on Thursday after Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation, spent 13 years at Microsoft earlier in her career, including four as chief financial officer of...
Nvidia founder’s wife faces spotlight that MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates know well
November 12, 2026
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang during a Microsoft Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on Oct. 7. (Ken Yeung Photo for GeekWire) As the fallout from Jensen Huang’s affair came to a head with his resignation as Nvidia CEO on Thursday, attention has turned in part to his wife, Lori Huang, who...
‘Water for life, not data’: Amazon data center plan draws Eastern Washington protests
November 12, 2026
Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon’s plans to build a data center campus near the Columbia River in Eastern Washington drew pushback Monday at a meeting of the Walla Walla County commissioners. Some attendees held handmade and printed signs reading “Amazon lies,”...
Constellation Space launches its platform for managing fleets of satellites with AI tools
November 12, 2026
Constellation Space’s software platform uses machine learning to optimize satellite data transfer. (Constellation Space Illustration) Seattle-based Constellation Space is rolling out its flagship software platform, which uses machine learning to streamline operations for fleets of satellites and...
‘We’re still here’: Technology Access Foundation keeps opening doors for students of color, 30 years later
November 12, 2026
TAF co-founders Trish Millines Dziko, left, and Jill Hull Dziko receive flowers from Sherry Williams, TAF’s executive director of operations, at the organization’s 30th anniversary celebration in Seattle in October. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editor’s note: Microsoft, which underwrites...
Seattle’s Allen Institute helps create a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for brain cells to unlock clues to disease
November 12, 2026
The structures of the basal ganglia illuminated as part of the Human Mammalian Brain Atlas, a three-dimensional reference atlas to facilitate brain research and collaboration among organizations and scientists. (Allen Institute Photo / Ashwin Bhandiwad) A coalition of 56 institutions across nine...
Ex-Seattle startup DeltaGen acquired by new AI company backed by Veeam co-founder
November 12, 2026
From left: DeltaGen co-founder Michal Studnicka, Worker co-founder and CEO John Roberts, Worker CFO Nick Byrd, DeltaGen co-founder Matus Ondreicka, and DeltaGen co-founder Rene Bystron. (Worker Photo) DeltaGen, an AI startup that got its start in Seattle before moving to San Francisco this year,...
AI voice company WellSaid retools for agents while keeping its commitment to human actors
November 11, 2026
WellSaid CEO Benjamin Dorr says the AI voice company is now profitable. (WellSaid Photo) WellSaid, the AI voice company that spun out of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2019, is reinventing itself for the era of AI agents. The company this week launched WellSaid...
Lila Bio lands $3.65M grant to fight pulmonary hypertension with AI-designed proteins
November 11, 2026
Lila Biologics co-founders CEO Jake Kraft, left, and Chief Scientist Anindya Roy. (Lila Photo) Lila Bio, a startup spun out of Nobel laureate David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington, has received a $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a treatment for...
Rand Fishkin’s Seattle game studio serves up first trailer for ‘The Snackbar at the End of the World’
November 11, 2026
The chef in “The Snackbar at the End of the World.” (Snackbar Studio Image) If the eventual release of “The Snackbar at the End of the World” is a full-on meal for video game fans, news this week of the game’s first trailer should at least suffice as an appetizer. Seattle-based Snackbar...
AWS gives developers a free local stand-in for its cloud, built from scratch by AI agents
November 11, 2026
AWS Emulator began as a weekend experiment, when an engineer prompted the Kiro coding agent to build a passable version of Amazon SQS in 15 minutes. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) AWS says its engineers didn’t write or review a single line of code in its newest developer tool, and the...
Tech Moves: Wizards of the Coasts names president; new execs at Skydance, Pulumi, Marchex and Syndio
November 11, 2026
Dan Ayoub. (LinkedIn Photo) — Dan Ayoub, the past head of Dungeons & Dragons, has been named president of Wizards of the Coast & Hasbro Digital Games. Ayoub joined the Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast in 2022 and counts himself among the longtime players of D&D and Magic: The...
Seattle VC firm Ascend closes $17M fund to back ‘Third Act’ startups in physical AI and hardware
November 11, 2026
From left: Ascend partner and chief of staff Jen Haller, founding general partner Kirby Winfield, and principal Nate Bek. (Ascend Photo) Venture firm Ascend has closed a $17 million third fund and landed its first institutional investor, in what founder Kirby Winfield calls the toughest...
Seattle mayor lifts pause and will expand police surveillance cameras with new safeguards
November 10, 2026
A view toward Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle from Lumen Field. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle will expand its police surveillance camera network to three more neighborhoods, Mayor Katie Wilson said Tuesday, ending a pause she put in place in March over privacy and civil...
Microsoft awards $20K grants to 25 Seattle-area nonprofits amid state budget crunch and tax debate
November 10, 2026
Representatives of the 25 nonprofits receiving Microsoft’s first Community-First Grants pose for a photo Monday with company leaders in Redmond with Seattle Mariners star Cal Raleigh and the team’s mascots. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The Lighthouse for the Blind is adding braille displays to...
Fintech giant Plaid opening Seattle engineering office, with plans to double local headcount
November 10, 2026
A South Lake Union view from Plaid’s Seattle office at 1000 Dexter Ave. N. (Plaid Photo) Plaid is opening an engineering office in Seattle’s Westlake neighborhood in January and plans to double its local workforce to about 80 people by next summer. The San Francisco-based fintech company says...
Data center developers brace for new reality as election backlash sinks in
November 10, 2026
A Sabey Data Center facility in Quincy, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Data center developers already knew they had a public relations problem. This month’s midterm elections showed how much of a political problem it has become. Voters approved data center restrictions in 44 of 45...
Allen Family Philanthropies gives $10M to hundreds of small arts groups across Washington state
November 10, 2026
“Lives Carried Forward,” a show by artist Yidan Guo, at Gallery at the Park in Richland, Wash. (Allied Arts Association Photo) Allen Family Philanthropies and Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund awarded $10 million to 745 small arts and culture organizations across Washington state, and renewed the grant...
PitchBook to give early-stage startups free access, using their data to feed a new tool for VCs
November 10, 2026
PitchBook is giving early-stage startups free access to its data, in exchange for some of their own. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) PitchBook announced a new program to give early-stage startups free use of its private-market data, if they share their financials and other company details. The...
Amazon’s Ring tries again with a $250 flying home security drone and a $1,000 patrol robot
November 10, 2026
Ring Drone Cam, left, and Ring Rover Cam. (Ring Images) Amazon’s Ring unveiled a $249.99 flying indoor security drone and a $999.99 mobile patrol robot for businesses, bringing back two ideas that stalled in earlier incarnations. The Ring Drone Cam and Ring Rover Cam,...
New tax incentives give Washington’s sustainable aviation fuel industry a boost
November 09, 2026
Twelve’s AirPlant One is turning captured carbon dioxide into a low-carbon aviation fuel. (Twelve Photo) Washington has cleared a milestone in its effort to become a hub for lower-carbon jet fuel, unlocking tax incentives aimed at attracting production to the state. Gov. Bob Ferguson...
From paper routes to fighter jets: Shield AI’s bet on Seattle is a homecoming for its co-founders
November 09, 2026
Shield AI co-founders Brandon Tseng, left, and Ryan Tseng. (Shield AI Photo) As a kid on Mercer Island, Brandon Tseng delivered The Seattle Times and the Mercer Island Reporter for extra cash. Now he and his older brother, Ryan Tseng, are making news of their own in the Seattle region. Shield...
Trevor Noah on AI
November 08, 2026
Trevor Noah, Rana el Kaliouby and Oren Etzioni discuss AI onstage at Boston’s Museum of Science on Oct. 19. (Nicolaus Czarnecki Photography for the Museum of Science, Boston) On Oct. 19, Trevor Noah launched Luminaries, a science conversation series at Boston’s Museum of Science. I joined him...
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