Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a galaxy that is offering new data about the early stages of the universe’s existence. The latest discovery shared by astronomers is about a bright galaxy dubbed MoM-z14. According to the team, this galaxy existed 280 million years after the Big Bang. The sounds like a long time, but in the …

The entrance to “Experience Center One” on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft’s big financial bet on artificial intelligence got even bigger in the December quarter, but it also showed continued signs of paying off for its cloud business. The company spent $37.5 billion on capital expenditures during the second quarter of its 2026 fiscal year, up 66% from …

Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect, investigate and take down identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B round of funding. While that might not sound like a lot given the huge sums some AI companies are raising, the names involved in this financing reads like a tech industry who’s who. The round was …

Tesla’s profit fell 46% in 2025 compared to the prior year, as CEO Elon Musk assumed a role in the Trump administration and federal electric vehicle subsidies were killed off by Congress, causing sales to plummet. The electric vehicle company reported Wednesday that it recorded just $3.8 billion in profit across 2025, its lowest tally in years. Total revenue from …

ServiceNow announced a deal with major AI player Anthropic just a week after it announced a partnership with OpenAI. Enterprise workflow software company ServiceNow has entered into a multi-year deal with AI research lab Anthropic on Wednesday. This partnership involves further embedding of Anthropic’s AI models into ServiceNow’s platform for its customers and bringing Anthropic’s AI to its employees. ServiceNow …

An Amazon Fresh store in the Seattle region. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon will lay off approximately 400 workers in Washington state as part of its decision to close all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores across the country, according to a notice filed with the state Employment Security Department on Wednesday. The layoffs are expected to take effect …

We’ve somehow almost reached the end of January already, which means it’s time for Sony to divulge the list of PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for February. They are Undisputed, Subnautica: Below Zero, Ultros and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. If you have a PS Plus subscription on any tier, you can claim these starting on February 3. After claiming them, …

Moments before a bankruptcy judge was expected to approve the sale of Luminar’s lidar business, an unidentified party submitted an offer that apparently blew away the leading bid of $33 million. This bid, which emerged just before a hearing Tuesday, kicked off a series of rapid-fire meetings between Luminar’s remaining leadership team and its lawyers, a “special transaction committee” formed …

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(BigStock Image) Even for the person in charge of protecting the data of an entire city, total privacy is elusive. Ginger Armbruster, Seattle’s chief data privacy officer, recently found herself on the other side of a breach when she discovered a fraudster had used her leaked information to open a sham bank account and float thousands of dollars in bad …

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Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are forcing the company to allow them. The move comes after the company’s ban on third-party chatbots on WhatsApp took effect on January 15.  For now, Meta will charge developers in Italy, where the country’s competition watchdog asked the company to suspend its …

Expedia Group offices at the company’s waterfront campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group will cut 162 workers in Washington state, according to a new filing Wednesday with the Employment Security Department. The layoffs, confirmed earlier this week, will take place April 1-19, the company said in a letter accompanying its Worker Adjustment …