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 Dec. 7, 2025.
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Tech Moves: T-Mobile names COO; Microsoft and Amazon execs depart; Redfin vet joins RentSpree
T-Mobile names a new COO, Microsoft and Amazon execs depart, and a Redfin vet joins RentSpree as CTO. … Read More
Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually
A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, sharing previously untold stories and reflecting on a landmark project that set the stage for a global computing revolution. … Read More
Seattle-area startup challenges Tesla Powerwall with hydrogen-fueled ‘Lego brick’ energy storage
Seattle-area startup Hyviva is challenging the Tesla Powerwall with an easily scalable energy storage system fueled with hydrogen. … Read More
Uncommon Thinkers: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is planting the seeds for a decentralized digital world
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is building more than a social network. … Read More
30 years after Microsoft went ‘all-in’ on the internet, the tech giant’s AI strategy echoes the past
Thirty years after Bill Gates declared Microsoft was going “all-in” on the internet, echoes of that moment are resurfacing in the company’s sweeping AI push. … Read More
‘We are all kids in the age of AI’: Trevor Noah teaches 5th graders — and learns a few things himself
Trevor Noah joined a 5th grade computer science class in Bellevue for Code.org’s Hour of AI, a Microsoft-supported initiative, learning alongside students and sharing why he believes kids have an edge over adults in the age of AI. … Read More
Recycling startup Ridwell hits 130,000 customers as new mail-in service takes off across the U.S.
Ridwell, the Seattle startup that collects plastic and other hard-to-recycle items from consumers, keeps growing its footprint across the U.S. … Read More
Microsoft says its Copilot AI tool is a ‘vital companion’ in new analysis of 37.5M conversations
Microsoft has released one of its most detailed looks yet at how people use Copilot — and the results suggest the AI assistant takes on different roles depending on time of day and the device being used. … Read More
Microsoft, Providence and UW create AI that unlocks tumor insights at a scale previously out of reach
Tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods. … Read More
Here’s the pitch deck used by Yoodli, the Seattle startup now valued at more than $300M
The pitch from Seattle startup Yoodli seems to be working well. … Read More
