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Jun 23, 2026, 8:43 PM

Moment of ‘Zen’: Another billionaire’s superyacht turns heads in Seattle

“Zen,” a $200 million, 289-foot yacht reportedly owned by Chinese billionaire Wu Guangming, motored smoothly through the Ballard Locks and out to Puget Sound, drawing onlookers along the railings of the popular Seattle destination. Read More

Jun 22, 2026, 9:37 AM

Amazon MGM Studios drops film about Sam Altman months after tech giant’s $50B OpenAI deal

Amazon MGM Studios has backed away from “Artificial,” a nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The studio said last week that the film would “be better served if it were released by a different studio.” Read More

Jun 18, 2026, 1:20 PM

No billboard needed: This Seattle startup scored World Cup airtime with a scrappy cardboard sign

Seattle’s Yoodli used a cardboard sign to get its name and web address on Fox Sports’ live broadcast of FIFA World Cup festivities from Pier 62 on the waterfront. Read More

Jun 17, 2026, 7:30 PM

Loss of another Seattle-area billionaire? Valve’s Gabe Newell is reported buyer of Florida estate

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the video game developer is the buyer of a waterfront estate north of Miami. Read More

Jun 16, 2026, 8:47 AM

Egypt and Belgium tied, but drones grab a World Cup win over Seattle with lighted scoreboard

Visit Seattle calls the lighted display the first-ever drone scoreboard, and the destination marketing organization plans the activation for five more matches that will be played in Seattle. Read More

Jun 8, 2026, 9:19 AM

This is bold … and italic and more: Microsoft Azure CTO vibe codes a text formatter for LinkedIn posts

Mark Russinovich created a new utility called LinkedIn Post Formatter that allows users to easily get the look they want in text on the professional networking platform. Read More

Jun 5, 2026, 9:01 AM

Zuckerberg’s superyacht moves north out of Seattle, dwarfing ferries along the way

Launchpad was spotted this week making the move from Elliott Bay in Seattle. According to MarineTraffic, the vessel anchored in Port Gardner Bay near Naval Station Everett around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read More

Jun 4, 2026, 9:00 AM

World Cup scoreboard in the sky: Drones will fly over Seattle to put match results in lights

The activation, from Visit Seattle, will take place at the Space Needle to add another visual flair to an event expected to draw huge crowds to the city. Read More

Jun 4, 2026, 8:06 AM

Google alert! Seattle-area teen wins Doodle contest with artwork celebrating hair and culture

Kameirah Johnson, a senior at Lakeside School, is the winner of the 2026 Doodle for Google contest, and her work is now displayed online for the millions of people who visit the search giant. Read More

May 28, 2026, 10:19 AM

Zuckerberg brought a ‘Wingman’: Meta CEO’s $100M yacht support vessel is also docked in Seattle

The $100 million Wingman is visible from the Magnolia Bridge and the Elliott Bay Trail that runs along the waterfront, but it blends in more easily at a terminal used for cruise ships. Read More

May 27, 2026, 5:01 PM

Who gives a Zuck? Seattle does, apparently: Meta CEO’s giant yacht brings gawkers to Lake Union

No one knew why the $300 million, 387-foot Launchpad was in Seattle. Some wished it wasn’t. Others were pretty thrilled to get a glimpse of the gleaming blue and white vessel, backed into a giant slip along Westlake Avenue North. Read More

May 25, 2026, 2:05 PM

New tune for Code.org’s Hadi Partovi: CEO of piano education venture with unique method and big ambitions

The Code.org founder, who earlier this year handed off the CEO role at the nonprofit, announced this weekend that he is the new CEO of Payam Music, a Bothell, Wash.-based piano school that he plans to expand nationally with backing from a prominent group of investors. Read More

May 21, 2026, 1:53 PM

Why this Seattle-area startup is putting its name on the front of an English Premier League soccer team

Temporal, the Bellevue workflow orchestration company valued at $5 billion, announced Thursday that it is becoming the front-of-shirt sponsor of Crystal Palace Football Club beginning with the 2026/27 season. Read More

May 15, 2026, 9:22 AM

A whiff of social media supremacy: Seahawks schedule release is a spritz in the face of NFL opponents

The release of 2026 NFL team schedules on Thursday night marked the return of the “social media Super Bowl” — and the actual Super Bowl champs were might in the mix. Read More

May 7, 2026, 9:09 AM

Report: Boston Celtics investors set to bid on Seahawks

Wyc Grousbeck and Aditya Mittal are reportedly submitting a letter of interest to the Paul G. Allen estate for the NFL team. Read More

May 6, 2026, 8:27 AM

Seattle-area tech vets buy a cricket team — in Boston — to further feed the sport’s talent pipeline

The five co-owners of the newly acquired New England Eagles, a Minor League Cricket franchise, are all based in the Pacific Northwest and have combined leadership experience at Microsoft, Zuper, T-Mobile, Capital One, and Bee Talent Solutions. Read More

Apr 30, 2026, 10:49 AM

Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook, Seahawks owners? Tech moguls’ reported interest quickly spiked

Front Office Sports reported Thursday that Zuckerberg and Cook are among at least four interested parties considering making offers for the team. They are the first serious names to emerge in a sale that could fetch upwards of $7 billion. Read More

Apr 22, 2026, 5:18 AM

Seattle high schooler’s Google Doodle pays tribute to hair and family history as a superpower

Kameirah Johnson, a senior at Seattle’s Lakeside School, is one of five students nationwide whose artwork will appear on the Google homepage later this month. Read More

Apr 20, 2026, 9:56 AM

Seattle-area billboard takes a page from Bay Area playbook: ‘Startup energy should be more visible’

Tech company billboards are a big part of the landscape in Silicon Valley. Summation CEO Ian Wong said the Seattle/Bellevue area “has world-class technical talent, but the scene here has always been understated.” Read More

Apr 14, 2026, 8:49 AM

These fifth graders vibe coded a real-world Braille tool — and wowed their Microsoft teacher

The students in a computer science class at the Global Idea School, an independent, non-profit elementary school in Redmond, Wash., learned vibe coding through GitHub Spark and built a Braille 3D Generator, a tool that turns text into printable, tactile 3D Braille models in seconds. Read More

Apr 13, 2026, 10:06 AM

There’s a tech week for that: Seattle’s ever-growing calendar of events for AI, space, oceans, energy and more

Keeping track of the days of the week is exhausting enough. Managing a calendar full of various “tech weeks” in Seattle and elsewhere feels like a full-time job. Read More

Apr 10, 2026, 3:56 PM

Cry til you laugh: Chris Pirillo vibe codes his job-search frustrations into brutally honest apps

Pirillo, the longtime tech enthusiast and entrepreneur, has been showing off his skills by illustrating how hard it is to get anyone to pay attention to his skills. Two of his latest vibe-coded creations include a Resume Analyzer and a pre-rejection letter generator called Dear Applicant. Read More

Apr 6, 2026, 7:44 PM

Plot twist in downtown Seattle: Barnes & Noble bookstore opening soon in Amazon’s backyard

The store will be a short walk from Amazon’s HQ campus. The tech giant got its start as an online bookseller, and on its way to disrupting multiple retail verticals, the company’s e-commerce dominance took a toll on physical bookstores, including Barnes & Noble. Read More

Apr 5, 2026, 8:26 AM