Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 14, 2026.
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A new Downtown Seattle Association report says the city’s JumpStart payroll tax has helped drive jobs and office value out of downtown over its first five years, pointing to booming Bellevue as the contrast. … Read More
Helion Energy announced Tuesday that it’s the first company in the world to receive regulatory licenses for a fusion power facility. … Read More
Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services. … Read More
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the video game developer is the buyer of a waterfront estate north of Miami. … Read More
Luke Larson is buzzing about matcha and his plans to build Vale into a Seattle-born beverage empire — think Starbucks, but make it matcha — scaling from a handful of local cafes and mobile bars to a nationwide network of thousands of automated machines. … Read More
Seattle’s Yoodli used a cardboard sign to get its name and web address on Fox Sports’ live broadcast of FIFA World Cup festivities from Pier 62 on the waterfront. … Read More
Andy Jassy was reportedly among the tech leaders who flagged security risks in Anthropic’s newest AI models to senior Trump administration officials — an awkward turn for Amazon, which has invested billions in the AI lab. … Read More
After leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon and Google, Brian Hall joins Mistral; Amazon’s VP of Alexa Domains retires; Dropzone AI names a head of product. … Read More
Dan Lewis, who led the Seattle freight marketplace Convoy before it shut down in 2023, has left Microsoft to start a stealth company focused on running AI models more efficiently, extending a career spent at the intersection of AI and logistics. … Read More
AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go. … Read More
