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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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- Nvidia’s CEO meltdown, who could replace Jensen Huang, and our latest AI tips and tricks · 38 minOn this week’s show, Todd and John react to the sudden downfall of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who resigned Thursday after reports of extramarital affairs, including one with a…
- Voters reject AI data centers, Shield AI's $5.3B Echodyne deal, and a startup's rare double exit · 29 minThis week: Shield AI, the defense tech company building its X-BAT autonomous fighter jet south of Seattle, agrees to acquire Kirkland-based radar maker Echodyne in a deal valued…
- Microsoft's big buyout, Amazon's trillion-dollar future, and an AI wearable reviews our show · 47 minThis week: Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, including some executives. We discuss what's behind the offer, why buyout…
- Exit interview: Microsoft’s comms chief on CEOs, reporters, what he got wrong, and stories that stuck · 1 h 9 minThis week: Microsoft’s longtime communications chief, Frank X. Shaw, looks back on nearly three decades of telling the company’s story as he prepares to leave at the end of the…
- Amazon’s new AI wearable, Booking's return to Expedia's backyard, and LinkedIn’s not-so-Seattle startup list · 36 minWe start this week's GeekWire Podcast by opening the listener mailbag, highlighting some recent comments and emails that set a new standard for critical feedback, in different…
- White House vs. Microsoft, AI fighter jets, and a visit to a startup founder's Seattle recording studio · 52 minThis week, we take the GeekWire Podcast to Front Burner Studios near Pike Place Market, where our host is studio co-owner Seth Paul, who's also co-founder and CEO of the Seattle…
- Seattle and San Francisco: Big tech, political backlash and the AI boom · 1 h 16 minThis week, GeekWire co-founder John Cook joins University of Washington historian Margaret O'Mara, author of "The Code," and San Francisco journalist Jonathan Weber, author of…
- Live show: Amazon, Meta and the fight over the future of AI; Plus, is Seattle still the place to build? · 52 minThis week: Amazon is blocking Meta's new Muse AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, saying the agent doesn't identify itself and violates the site's conditions of use. We…
- AI meets real estate, with Zillow's engineering SVP Toby Roberts · 46 minOn this week's show, recorded live at Atmosphere Seattle on the shores of Lake Union, Zillow Senior Vice President of Engineering Toby Roberts joins us to talk about what AI is…
- Study warns Seattle over-relies on Big Tech; Seattle Times v. Microsoft; Apple's iPhone Duo echoes the past · 43 minThis week: A study commissioned by the City of Seattle warns that the city is not in decline but is in danger, finding that 10 companies, nine of them in tech, pay three-quarters…
- NBA's Ballmer crackdown echoes Microsoft antitrust, SF vs. Seattle housing, and a Seahawks tech twist · 36 minThis week: The NBA suspends former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a year and hits the Clippers with $30 million in fines and five lost draft picks over allegedly sham…
- Bill Gates in his own words: How he's using AI, and why he's worried about the future · 50 minThis week: Bill Gates published a new essay warning that the AI industry is crossing the safety lines it set for itself, and that nobody is preparing for what's coming. At 70…
- Amazon's drones finally take off, inside Anduril's Seattle-area buildup, and an AirTag leads to a secret Amazon facility · 39 minThis 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…
- Bezos and Liverpool FC, a Meta vet's AI startup, Auger's Dallas move, and the demise of Microsoft's AI blob · 37 minThis 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…
- Elon Musk's Starlink swagger, SpaceX vs. the cloud giants, and Seattle’s tech universe revisited · 29 minThis 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…
- Amazon's next big business, Satya Nadella's DIY app, and a VC's rallying cry for Seattle tech · 36 minThis 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…
- The greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil · 35 minOn 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…
- What's going on with Seattle startup funding, a Kalshi setback, Impinj's long game, and a smartphone detox · 38 minThis 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…
- Silicon Valley icon Vinod Khosla: What kind of Seattle Seahawks owner will he be? · 34 minThis 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…
- Microsoft's reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders · 41 minOn 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 —…
- Fusion energy: Wishing upon a star in a jar — Introducing 'Positive Charge' from GeekWire · 38 minThis week on the show, we're sharing the debut of Positive Charge, a new GeekWire podcast from reporter Lisa Stiffler and producer Laura Scott about the innovations that could…
- From the dot-com boom to AI security: F5 at 30, with CEO François Locoh-Donou · 38 minThis week: F5 turns 30 years old this year, and the Seattle company has reinvented itself repeatedly to get here — starting, improbably, as a group of University of Washington…
- Anthropic, Amazon, and the Fable shutdown; AI-powered school arrives; World Cup tech · 33 minAnthropic takes its most powerful models offline after a U.S. order, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly contributing to the concerns that helped trigger it. Todd and John dig…
- Following through in Cleveland: A GeekWire trip report, plus data center ‘theater’ and the SpaceX IPO · 29 minIn February, Seattle angel investor Charles Fitzgerald warned the region not to become the next Cleveland, prompting Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb to join the podcast and make the…
- Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley · 43 minMicrosoft's Build conference was a firehose: in-house AI models, agent-first devices, new coding tools, and a Copilot "super app" that got teased but never shown. Todd Bishop and…
- Zuckerberg's yacht, Meta's layoffs, a robot pizza flameout, and a reality check on AI expenses · 29 minThis week on the show: Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses nearly 1,400 local layoffs, robot pizza startup Picnic flames out and sells to…
- 'Lean Startup' author Eric Ries calls for a shift to 'mission primacy' in new book 'Incorruptible' · 18 minOn this special episode, Eric Ries, author of the 2011 bestseller "The Lean Startup," discusses his new book, "Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies…
- SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink's impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer · 51 minThis week on a supersized Memorial Day Weekend edition of the GeekWire Podcast: A massive IPO filing from SpaceX includes new details about Elon Musk's Starlink business and its…
- AI is not your strategy: Author and business advisor Brian Evergreen explains why vision comes first · 24 minBrian Evergreen worked in AI at Microsoft from 2016 to 2023, including a role helping Fortune 500 executives develop their AI strategies. He kept seeing the same pattern: most of…
- What we learned about Microsoft in the OpenAI trial, and is Seattle squandering its edge? · 32 minThis week: As the Musk v. OpenAI trial heads to the jury, we dig into what Microsoft's internal board memos and executive testimony revealed about the origins of the company's…
- Inside the 2026 GeekWire Awards: Innovators reshaping how we work, build, and learn · 49 minThis week on the show: Conversations with finalists and special guests at the annual GeekWire Awards about AI, innovation, startups, and the forces reshaping their industries…
- Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a small VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal · 42 minThis week on the show: Todd reports from inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how…
- AI, fungi, and the future of enterprise tech: Industry vet Bill Hilf on his debut novel 'The Disruption' · 51 minBill Hilf has spent decades enterprise tech, open-source technologies, and AI, from IBM and Microsoft to running Paul Allen's portfolio as the CEO of Vulcan. He now chairs the…
- Bonus: Microsoft's surprise retirement offer — breaking it down on KIRO Newsradio · 16 minMicrosoft is offering a voluntary retirement program for the first time in its history, with thousands of U.S. employees eligible. GeekWire's Todd Bishop joins KIRO Newsradio…
- The tough new realities for startups, Amazon's next big strategic bets, and Allbirds' crazy AI pivot · 45 minThis week on the GeekWire Podcast, a week of Seattle-area startup news shows how the AI era is reshaping the regional tech scene. Q1 venture numbers reveal bigger checks going to…
- Riding the rails — over a floating bridge: GeekWire Podcast takes the train across the lake to Microsoft · 43 minThis week on the GeekWire Podcast: we take the show on the road — or rather, on the rails — recording on Sound Transit's 2 Line as we ride the world's first light rail on a…
- Rec Room shutdown, robot umps, FedEx meets Amazon, and OpenAI's odd media buy · 37 minRec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming platform once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down — and Snap is picking up some of the pieces. Todd broke the news, fielded calls…
- GeekWire AI summit takeaways: Token budgets, watermelon metrics, and the $5k weekend coder · 42 minFresh off the big GeekWire AI summit this week, Todd and John unpack what they heard from Microsoft EVP Charles Lamanna, OpenAI applications CTO Vijaye Raji, and other speakers…
- Microsoft’s Copilot shakeup, Amazon’s new phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn · 46 minAmazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named "Transformer," more than a decade after the Fire Phone debacle, according to Reuters. We dig into the connection to a past…
- How AI is changing the business and art of video, from 'chaos machine' to creative catalyst · 60 minBrice Budke (President) and Zeek Earl (Executive Creative Director) run two Seattle studios: Shep, a video agency that works with tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft, and…
- On location at OpenAI in Bellevue, with CTO of Applications Vijaye Raji · 37 minOpenAI just opened its largest office outside San Francisco, in downtown Bellevue, Wash. GeekWire was there on day one to tour the space. Chatting inside the OpenAI game room, we…
- Anthropic acquires Vercept, the AI job crisis scenario, and Microsoft's past Epstein connections · 38 minAnthropic acquired Seattle startup Vercept on Wednesday, raising familiar questions about the impact of early exits on the broader Seattle startup ecosystem, and the question of…
- We tested Amazon's speedy delivery live on the podcast: Here's what it says about the future of retail · 44 minAmazon promises 30-minute delivery with its new Amazon Now service. We put it to the test — live on the show — with help from Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz, co-founders of…
- GeekWire Podcast, Live from Fremont: Seahawks, AI, and Seattle's Future · 54 minWe're live this week in the "Center of the Universe" in Seattle for a special recording of the GeekWire Podcast, presented by the Fremont Chamber of Commerce at Fremont Brewing…
- Cleveland's Mayor, Seattle's Future: What happens when a city's economy shifts · 19 minGeekWire brought Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Seattle tech veteran Charles Fitzgerald together on the phone Thursday after a guest column warning Seattle not to repeat…
- Amazon's big bet, a 'MySpace for bots', and a conversation with AI veteran Oren Etzioni · 43 minUpcoming GeekWire Podcast Live Event: Join us from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb 12 at Fremont Brewing for a live recording of the GeekWire Podcast with Todd Bishop and John…
- GeekWire Field Trip: Starbucks rebounds, Microsoft slides, and Amazon resets · 27 minUpcoming GeekWire Podcast Live Event: Join us from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb 12 at Fremont Brewing for a live recording of the GeekWire Podcast with Todd Bishop and John…
- Microsoft's private OpenAI emails and Satya Nadella’s new AI catchphrase · 39 minNewly unsealed court documents reveal the behind-the-scenes history of Microsoft and OpenAI · including a surprise: Amazon Web Services was the Silicon Valley AI lab's original…
- Amazon fixes Alexa voice ordering bug; Microsoft rethinks AI data centers; Stadium cameras capture every Seahawks fan · 33 minSomeone listening to last week’s GeekWire Podcast caught something we missed: a misleading comment by Alexa during our voice ordering demo — illustrating the challenges of…
- Alexa’s next act, Microsoft’s retail play, Google’s AI inbox, and a smart bird feeder fail · 38 minThis week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon and Microsoft are racing to define the next era of consumer AI, on multiple fronts. We discuss Amazon's attempt to upgrade Alexa into a…
