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See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of June 7, 2026. Read More

The anti-AI-content movement will likely go where the anti-GMO movement went: a loud opening act, a long taper, and a quiet ending in which the product is everywhere. Read More

Researchers say the mechanics of having sex in space would be easier to manage than the biology of pregnancy and fetal development in a reduced-gravity, high-radiation environment. Read More

Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a UW alum, returned to campus Friday with an optimistic but clear-eyed message about AI for Allen School graduates — many of them headed into the industry to help shape the future of technology. Read More

John Cook and Charles Fitzgerald call into the podcast from an abandoned Westinghouse factory in Cleveland to debrief on a Rust Belt city's comeback and what Seattle can learn from it. Plus: the new data center moratorium, and why Fitzgerald is sitting out the SpaceX IPO. Read More

Microsoft has spent years subsidizing Xbox rather than profiting from it, CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged this week, as he addressed… Read More

Microsoft technical fellow and Azure Core CTO Marcus Fontura is departing; Xealth named its first CRO; and Slalom recruited a PNW lead from Accenture. Read More

Oregon-based nickel-zinc battery manufacturer ZincFive is headed to the Nasdaq via a $600M SPAC merger with SparkLabs Group to fund increased manufacturing to meet growing demand. Read More

Nobel laureate Mary Brunkow will be the featured speaker at Saturday's 151st commencement. She's a scientist, not a tech executive — and unlike other graduation speakers this season, she's not planning to sell students on AI. Read More

Seattle AI veteran Oren Etzioni argues that SpaceX's record-setting IPO valuation prices in three unproven bets at once — and that the Tesla playbook doesn't apply at this starting point. Read More

With $54M and a SpaceX playbook, Seattle's Endurance races to tap deep-sea volcanic power Read More

The Seattle-based customer data startup announced this week that co-founders Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani will serve as co-CEOs, taking over leadership of the company less than two years after Amperity hired former Salesforce executive Tony Alika Owens to lead the business. Read More

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a roughly $41 billion valuation. The co-CEOs discussed the company's plans in their first joint interview. Read More

In a sprawling facility south of downtown in Georgetown — a space that serves as the base of operations for the company's presence in the Seattle region — Lime is rolling out new devices, doing regular maintenance on its existing fleet, and preparing a suite of services designed to handle many thousands of riders. Read More

Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to the world of cloud infrastructure as co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched company backed by more than $10 billion. Read More

Amazon is working to rewrite the narrative around data center's environmental toll as local communities begin shutting the door on rapid AI expansion. Read More

A rising tide lifts all spaceships: Starcloud, Gravitics and other Northwest space ventures look forward to taking advantage of what SpaceX and Starship will have to offer. Read More

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft's gaming business will end the fiscal year at about a 3% profit margin, saying years of heavy spending without revenue growth "cannot continue" — as Bloomberg and The Verge reported major job cuts coming next month. Read More

The list of potential buyers for the Seattle Seahawks is starting to look like an NFL Pro Bowl roster of billionaires, venture capitalists and global business leaders. Read More

Alpha School, an AI-powered private school chain that has students complete core academics in two hours a day, plans to open a campus in Kirkland this fall and will run summer programs on Microsoft's Redmond campus. Read More