Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 4, 2026 – GeekWire

The money shows up in tax filings as a 2024 donation to French Gates’ Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation. … Read More

Steven Maheshwary, a former generative AI leader at Amazon, is now a go-to-market lead in strategic partnerships at Anthropic, the AI giant behind Claude and backed by Amazon. … Read More

An AWS VP is switching roles; Seattle gets a new economic development lead; a Microsoft Teams VP departs; and more in the latest tech moves. … Read More

Amazon is taking a swing at golf balls, but are they worth buying? … Read More

Amazon’s Ring is taking its home-security technology into the parking lot with a $5,000 solar-powered surveillance trailer aimed at construction sites, retail centers, and outdoor events — a move that puts the doorbell maker into more direct competition with commercial security providers. … Read More

Microsoft Research leader Desney Tan is leaving the company after 21 years, closing a career that spanned breakthrough work in human-computer interaction, health “moonshots,” and products including Xbox Kinect and Microsoft Band. … Read More

A former Expedia Group employee who secretly recorded women by hiding spy cameras throughout the company’s Seattle headquarters — including in bathrooms — was sentenced Friday to four years in prison. … Read More

— Karthik Ramakrishnan, who spent the past 14 years at Amazon where he helped develop the company’s AI strategy, has taken a VP role within the Data Cloud organization at Google Cloud. … Read More

By the time we hit Kelso, it was clear my family’s post-Christmas EV adventure was hitting the skids. … Read More

Instead of selling tools alongside data platforms, Osmos’ technology will live inside one. … Read More