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Get caught up on the most recent know-how and startup information from the previous week. Listed below are the preferred tales on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 12, 2025. Signal as much as obtain these updates each Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Hottest tales on GeekWire A first look at the Amazon-backed, next-generation nuclear facility planned for Washington state A challenge to construct one of many nation’s first next-gen nuclear services has simply introduced its identify — the Cascade Superior Power Facility — and shared renderings of the plant. … Read More…

Xealth CEO Mike McSherry. (Xealth Photograph) When Mike McSherry got down to construct a digital well being startup, the veteran entrepreneur wished to create an organization that might change into ubiquitous in healthcare. Xealth didn’t fairly attain that formidable purpose. However its digital well being software program platform did acquire traction — and drew the eye of a worldwide tech large. Samsung completed its acquisition of Xealth on Friday. The deal, reported by Modern Healthcare at about $115 million, alerts Samsung’s deeper push into digital health because it competes towards Apple, Amazon, Google, and others. It’s additionally a significant milestone…

Seattle Mariners followers go loopy inside T-Cellular Park on Friday after third baseman Geno Suarez hit a grand slam in a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. (GeekWire Picture / Holly Grambihler) The group at T-Cellular Park has been ready all week to maneuver the earth once more for the Seattle Mariners. They received their probability Friday night time. An eighth-inning grand slam by Geno Suarez despatched greater than 46,000 followers right into a frenzy and triggered seismic exercise registered by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). The group, which screens earthquakes and volcanoes in Washington and Oregon, put…

What occurs to Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC initiative because it goals to make each pc an AI PC? That’s one among our subjects on this week’s GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire File Photograph / Todd Bishop) Veteran expertise journalist Ed Bott has “seen issues,” after greater than 30 years of protecting Microsoft and the PC trade, and he acknowledges a sample within the firm’s newest AI options for Home windows. Ed Bott, senior contributing editor for ZDNet. It’s a part of a high-stakes effort to place Home windows on the heart of the following massive platform shift — trying to keep away from…

(SWAPMEAT Picture) The crew at Seattle-based sport developer One More Game is lastly sharing its first title with gamers, six years after the corporate initially began. Shortly after landing a $22 million funding round in 2022 from traders together with Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz, One Extra Sport determined to scrap Spellcraft, the sport it had been engaged on for over three years. The corporate utterly shelved the hybrid real-time technique fantasy sport and began over from scratch. “I’m actually pleased with Spellcraft — the sport was good,” mentioned One Extra Sport co-founder Jamie Stormbreaker. He mentioned the corporate noticed participant curiosity…

(Peach Photograph) Chicago-based workplace lunch supply firm Fooda has acquired Peach, a Seattle startup that constructed software program to facilitate lunch deliveries. Peach CEO Nishant Singh confirmed that the deal closed in July. It’s a part of a recent wave of meals supply acquisitions, together with DoorDash’s $3.9 billion buy of Deliveroo in October and Surprise shopping for Grubhub final 12 months. “Fooda — together with a number of different corporations — approached us in early 2025,” Singh mentioned. “Given the continuing consolidation in our business, there was a pure synergy that made Fooda a nice match.” Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. “In…

Jon Jones. (LinkedIn Picture) — Jon Jones, a former Amazon Net Companies vp, is now chief income officer for CoreWeave, the New Jersey-based AI computing firm that went public earlier this 12 months. Jones joined AWS in 2017 and left the place of VP of world startups and enterprise capital. He’ll stay in Seattle. Jones’ three-decades lengthy profession consists of roles from startup founder to enterprise govt management. “I’m thrilled to affix CoreWeave at such an necessary second,” Jones stated in an announcement. “AI adoption is advancing at a rare tempo, and lasting success will depend on pairing world-class know-how…

Emerald Battery Labs co-founders from left: David Bell, Kjell Schroder and Aric Shares. (Emerald Picture) Whereas most battery startups chase lithium, a brand new Seattle firm is betting on an plentiful different: sodium. Emerald Battery Labs is growing supplies for sodium-ion batteries as a result of the ingredient is available within the U.S. and cheaper than the lithium required for extra typical batteries. Sodium-ion batteries even have considerably longer lifespans and are much less prone to catch hearth than lithium-ion alternate options. The tradeoff? They’re much less vitality dense — which means they don’t maintain as a lot energy per…

Longtime ceramics nonprofit Pottery Northwest is transferring to a brand new residence on the base of an Amazon HQ tower in Seattle. (Pottery Northwest Picture) Pottery Northwest, a longtime ceramics nonprofit in Seattle, is transferring to a brand new residence on the base of an Amazon headquarters tower subsequent yr. The 59-year-old group is leaving Pioneer Sq. and transferring to a ten,000-square-foot location in Amazon’s Nitro North constructing. The area within the Denny Triangle neighborhood at Seventh Avenue and Bell Avenue was beforehand occupied by Glassybaby. The Seattle Times reported on the deliberate transfer on Friday. Pottery Northwest, which provides…

From high left, clockwise: Decipher Healthcare CEO Pete Francis; Aspir CEO Nicole Doyle; MathGPT co-founder Nour Gajial; StratoCloud CEO Thiru Bhat; and SolyCrys AI CEO Gwen Chen. Seattle’s early-stage founders are making use of AI throughout industries — from schooling and healthcare to advertising and marketing and cloud safety. Our newest Startup Radar options 5 new ventures utilizing clever techniques to assist college students launch corporations, staff navigate healthcare, and enterprises handle information extra successfully. This common collection spotlights early stage startups throughout the Seattle area which are getting off the bottom with progressive concepts. Learn on for temporary descriptions…