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GeekWire is a Seattle-centered technology news podcast with a sharp eye for how local stories travel outward. Its episodes move from AI agents and automation to transit, startup shutdowns, Amazon ambitions, Microsoft shifts, and the region's civic growing pains.
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GeekWire covers technology through the streets, campuses, companies, and civic arguments of the Seattle region. It is a business news podcast with a local newsroom's muscle memory. The show keeps returning to Microsoft, Amazon, AI, startups, transit, sports-adjacent automation, and the complicated bargain between tech growth and city life. Its center of gravity is Seattle, but its questions are broader. What happens when AI agents email each other? What does a robot strike zone say about human judgment? Why does a VR startup's shutdown matter after years of metaverse enthusiasm? How does a new light-rail connection change the daily map for tech workers crossing Lake Washington? Todd Bishop and John Cook bring a reporterly rhythm to those questions, mixing quick jokes with specific business context. The format is flexible. Some episodes are weekly news conversations from Seattle. Others are on-location experiments, live recordings, or deeper interviews. A ride across a floating bridge becomes a story about infrastructure, employers, and regional ambition. A live event in Fremont turns into a discussion of AI, the Seahawks, neighborhood business, and Seattle's future. An AI video-production episode slows down to ask what tools can do, what they cannot, and where human creativity still matters. The show also has an appetite for odd details: a bot-only social network, Claude running into LinkedIn limits, token budgets, watermelon metrics, and a weekend coder spending thousands of dollars. Those details keep the analysis from feeling abstract. GeekWire is strongest when it connects big technology shifts to actual places, companies, commutes, offices, events, and people. It is useful for listeners who want the business implications without losing the local texture. The show sounds like working journalists comparing notes in public, with Seattle as both newsroom and case study.
Made for: Built for tech workers, founders, investors, civic observers, and curious business listeners who follow AI, startups, Amazon, Microsoft, and Seattle's regional economy. It especially suits people who want industry analysis grounded in place rather than detached trend talk.
What sets it apart: GeekWire pairs national-scale technology themes with on-the-ground Seattle reporting, from live events and transit rides to interviews inside the region's business ecosystem. Its edge is the way local details make AI, automation, and tech-company strategy feel concrete.
GeekWire brings you the week's latest technology news, trends and insights, covering the world of technology from our home base in Seattle. Our regular news podcast features commentary and analysis from our editors and reporters, plus interviews with special guests.
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GeekWire co-founders record the first podcast on the new light rail crossing Lake Washington's floating bridge, discussing the decades-long journey and its impact on tech commuters.
GeekWire co-founders discuss Rec Room shutdown, robot umpires, FedEx-Amazon competition, and OpenAI's media acquisition.
GeekWire co-founders recap their AI Summit, discussing key takeaways like token budgets, watermelon metrics, and the $5k weekend coder.
GeekWire hosts discuss Microsoft's Copilot changes, Amazon's phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn.
GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop explores how AI is transforming video production through a case study of a stop-motion animation project for Amazon's AI tool Kiro.
GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook record live at Fremont Brewing with Fremont Chamber executive director Pete Hanning, discussing the Seahawks, AI, and Seattle’s economic future.
GeekWire discusses Amazon's investment in OpenAI, a new social network for AI agents called MoteBook, and interviews AI veteran Oren Etzioni.
Professor Jeff Shulman discusses Seattle's economic cycles and the impact of AI on the city's growth and equity.
GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop interviews AWS VP Francesca Vasquez about how companies are using generative AI and AI agents across industries.
GeekWire's Todd Bishop interviews Baird analyst Colin Sebastian about the AI strategies of Amazon, Google, and Meta, and the broader industry spending trends on generative AI.
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