Agree & Join LinkedIn
By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy.
Create your free account or sign in to continue your search
or
New to LinkedIn? Join now
By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy.
“We have a philosophy in Seattle: old school principles, new school methods.” As the Seahawks gear up for tomorrow’s Super Bowl, check out our interview with head coach Mike Macdonald from before this season started. The self-described “football nerd” described his leadership approach as a hybrid of traditional football fundamentals and modern technology.
- Super Bowl tech ads: AI is a big theme for this year’s big game, with Amazon, Ring, Google, Meta, and others pitching their latest technology products. Anthropic also takes a swing at OpenAI. Watch the ads here.
OpenAI is going big in Bellevue. The company is taking 10 additional floors at a downtown office tower, boosting its footprint to nearly 300,000 square feet in one of the largest AI leases across the Seattle region. The move also gives OpenAI a major hub just a short drive from Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters campus and within a few blocks of Amazon’s expanding Bellevue offices, tightening its ties with both cloud giants. Read more.
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon bets $200 billion on AI infrastructure, AI agents get their own social network, and AI veteran Oren Etzioni talks agents, startups, deepfakes, and the race between the major AI research labs and big tech platforms. Read more and listen here, and subscribe to GeekWire on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Upcoming Live Event: Join us 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at Fremont Brewing in Seattle for a live recording of the GeekWire Podcast with Todd Bishop and John Cook. Register here.
More upcoming events: Tech and startup community gatherings on our radar in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
- Feb. 9: Executive Roundtable: AI Fluency in Action
- Feb. 10: New Tech Seattle February Meetup
- Feb. 11: AI-assisted coding in practice: successes, failures, and engineering trade-offs
- Feb. 12: Live Recording: The GeekWire Podcast
- Feb. 12: BDA Annual Celebration
- Feb. 13: Eastside Marketing Morning Brew Meetup
Check out the GeekWire Calendar for more.
Hot Links:
- Amazon’s corporate income tax bill shrunk by more than half in 2025, thanks to new federal tax laws. (Wall Street Journal)
- Verizon sued T-Mobile, alleging that its rival exaggerated savings for customers. (Reuters)
- The Oregon AI Accelerator announced its first cohort of companies. (Silicon Florist)
Sign up here to receive GeekWire’s daily newsletter in your inbox each day at 11 a.m. PT.
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Explore the move from simple automation to autonomous innovation: Join GeekWire for Agents of Transformation: Inside the AI Shift, presented by Accenture.
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Seattle Kraken Single-Game Tickets. There’s nothing like a night of Kraken hockey in The Deep. From puck drop to the final horn, feel every hit, goal, and crowd surge live at Climate Pledge Arena. Single-game tickets are available now!
To view or add a comment, sign in
New era for the Allen School? A University of Washington task force recommends separating the Allen School of Computer…
Closing the doors: Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, ending a 17-year run for the effort…
Keeping AI agents on a short leash: Microsoft unveiled new security tools that treat AI agents as potential insider…
Retro tech meets modern AI: Darko Mesaroš’ Maple Valley, Wash., garage no longer holds a car.
Heard you’re out of dish soap: Amazon’s Bee AI wearables, which listen to everyday conversations, can now turn offhand…
Booking’s new Seattle startup: Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is launching an AI travel venture called Vayo, led by…
Apple moves in on Amazon’s home turf: Apple unveiled a $299 smart display called HomeView that will take on the Echo…
Less NVIDIA, more Maia: Microsoft plans to run most of its AI services on chips it designs itself. Its new Maia 300…
Nadella’s immigration story: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella went from a temporary work visa to permanent residency to U.S.
Microsoft vs. the White House: The Trump administration suspended Microsoft from a widely used green card program hours…
