How UW’s solar vehicle team harnessed the sun and hard work to shine on the national stage

Over seven days in July and 1,778 miles from Minnesota to Texas, UW outpaced nearly every competitor to finish fourth overall ...

Helion funding round grows to $500M amid uncertainty over fusion startup’s Microsoft timeline

An aerial view of Orion, Helion Energy's planned fusion plant being built in Malaga, Wash. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy on ...

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Over seven days in July and 1,778 miles from Minnesota to Texas, UW outpaced nearly every competitor to finish fourth overall and cross the line as the top-ranking American team in the American Solar ...

From school nuggets to insect kibble: How the next generation of faux meats aims to win over skeptics

As startups and researchers advance alternative proteins for both people and pets, the sector is working to overcome hurdles ...

Interlune raises $5M for initiatives that go beyond mining the moon

SAFE offering provides cash for lunar infrastructure development in advance of Seattle-based space startup's next priced ...

Seattle’s Nuance Labs raises $50M to give AI models human expression and nuance

Founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, the research lab is ...

Uncommon Thinkers 2026: Last call for nominations for Seattle’s boldest innovators

Nominations for GeekWire’s 2026 Uncommon Thinkers Awards close Friday. Nominate a Seattle-area innovator who is challenging ...

Terry Myerson retires as Truveta CEO, with co-founders stepping in to lead $1B health data startup

Truveta co-founders Jay Nanduri and Ryan Ahern will serve as interim co-CEOs of the health data company, which Myerson helped build from a pandemic-era idea into a business with 500 employees and 30 ...

UW, Microsoft and E8 back climate tech incubator targeting data centers as AI energy concerns surge

The University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs is partnering with Microsoft and E8 to launch a four-month incubator tackling ...

Open-Source AI: Industry Growing Up or the End of the Open Model Era?

This spring, Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5-Omni – a powerful multimodal model. The flagship versions? API-only. The lightweight ...

AI Agent Budgets Are Blowing Past Forecasts. Here Are Five Questions to Ask Before Your Next Review

Conventional chatbots offer a simple cost structure: a user sends in a prompt, the model generates a response, and the… Read More ...

Julie Harris

Julie Harris has been appointed vice president of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group at the Seattle-based Allen Institute.