Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 15, 2026

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 March 15, 2026.

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Most popular stories on GeekWire

The Washington Research Foundation is investing $7 million in Nobel laureate David Baker’s UW lab to turn AI-designed proteins into real-world tools. … Read More

“Lime Vision” uses a camera mounted to the front of an electric scooter and a trained AI model to detect where a rider is riding. … Read More

Five months after releasing its “responsible AI plan” providing guidelines for the technology’s use, the City of Seattle has tapped the brakes on artificial intelligence. … Read More

Former Microsoft leader to run a nonprofit using AI to talk with animals; three Amazon leaders resign and a longtime Google engineer joins LinkedIn. … Read More

GeekWire spoke with legal experts and wealth advisors to learn more about how the new income tax may impact different people in Washington’s tech ecosystem. … Read More

For this installment in our Agents of Transformation series, GeekWire examined the rising trend of vertical AI agents — tools built to do one job exceptionally well by combining models with domain-specific data, workflows, and context. … Read More

Seattle startup Certiv emerged from stealth with $4.2 million in funding to build security software that monitors and controls AI agents on employee computers. … Read More

Jeff Bezos’ space venture seeks FCC’s go-ahead for a constellation that would complement TeraWave network — and set up another rivalry with SpaceX. … Read More

Despite world-class AI-biotech research, a Nobel Prize-winning protein design lab and proximity to global AI expertise, Washington’s life sciences sector is still learning to tell its story. … Read More

Carbon Robotics names a CFO; Nordstrom gets a VP of AI; and a Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix while one of its longtime legal leaders retires. … Read More

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