In 2020, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk celebrates in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket put two NASA astronauts into orbit. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Satya Nadella’s offhand remark […]
Microsoft’s $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, maker of Call of Duty and Candy Crush, closed in late 2023 and overcame its final U.S. regulatory challenge in this week. (BigStock Photo) Like a seasoned gamer navigating a tricky boss fight,
GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop Amazon’s latest shareholder results, released Thursday afternoon, show a continued decline in support for some high-profile environmental and social proposals. Measures on packaging waste and warehouse safety each received noticeably less backing than comparable
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Washington patent filings fell 23.4% from 2018 to 2023 — nearly five times the national average decline — despite the state’s strong investment in research and development. Source: USPTO / Technology Alliance Benchmarking Report Washington ranks among the nation’s top
A heat map from Microsoft’s legal filing shows the spread of Lumma Stealer malware infections. Microsoft announced a coordinated effort to hobble Lumma Stealer, a widely used piece of malware known for stealing personal information and enabling ransomware attacks. The
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(GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Amazon shareholders on Wednesday rejected all eight independent proposals at the company’s annual meeting, including measures seeking greater scrutiny of its climate risks, AI practices, and warehouse working conditions. Final tallies won’t be released
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Microsoft President Brad Smith (right) speaks with Jonathan Sposato, chairman of GeekWire and publisher of Seattle Magazine, at a Technology Alliance luncheon in Seattle on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft President Brad Smith issued a stark warning about
Jay Parikh, Microsoft executive vice president and head of the company’s CoreAI engineering division, speaks at Build 2025 in Seattle, with the Anthropic and OpenAI logos highlighting Microsoft’s push to support multiple AI models. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft
Microsoft is bringing the Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini AI models from Elon Musk’s xAI to its Azure AI Foundry platform, as new offerings hosted and billed directly by Microsoft from within the company’s cloud platform. The move is
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott speaks to reporters and analysts ahead of the company’s Build developer conference, outlining the company’s vision for the “agentic web.” (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is pitching a future built on the
