Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 20, 2026

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for ...

‘Seattle’s answer to YC Demo Day’: 25 startups pitch investors from across the country at AI House

AI House brought investors from Boston, New York, Colorado, the Bay Area and other cities to Seattle for a demo day where 25 ...

Tech Moves: Microsoft AI exec joins Niantic Spatial; Allen fund names first investment chief; Zillow AI leader heads to Stripe

Niantic Spatial hired Microsoft AI product leader Dave Citron as chief product officer, the late Paul Allen's Fund for ...

Amazon’s fight with Meta: Who owns the customer relationship when an agent does the buying?

Amazon's decision to block Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its site raises questions about whether the big platforms ...

Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude

Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from ...

Startup Spotlight: Marketing vets launch Kompeld to measure if a company’s story is actually working

Kompeld analyzes how companies describe themselves and scores their messaging. It looks at websites, sales materials and other company communications to identify what's clear, what's not, and where ...

Seattle startup Row Zero acquired by Databricks to bring enterprise spreadsheets to AI platform

Founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers Breck Fresen and Nick End, Row Zero set out to build a spreadsheet ...

Amazon will let sellers manage Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok sales from their Amazon dashboards

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon's VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, speaks Tuesday morning at Amazon Accelerate at ...

Facing ‘seismic shifts’ in tech sector, Seattle mayor freezes JumpStart tax rates in new budget

Mayor Katie Wilson's proposed budget closes a $175 million deficit through spending cuts and leaves the JumpStart payroll tax ...

Tech vet takes a fresh swing at the country club with a golf and social hub in old Seattle industrial space

Shankar Sundaram, a former Boeing engineer and enterprise sales leader, said the ultimate goal of East West Club is to create ...

Alaska Air sustainability director lays out strategy for low-carbon flying at Climate Week NYC

Speaking at Climate Week NYC, Alaska Air Group sustainability chief Ryan Spies outlined how thin margins and complex physics ...

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping

Amazon blocked Meta's new Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, citing security, privacy and transparency concerns, ...