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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.

Website ↗ Last published 31 October 2026 740 posts collected by Sputnik

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“Behind the scenes, the stories about these buyouts have attracted huge readership, more so than layoff stories. In this case I actually think there's a little bit of fantasizing, a little bit of aspirational readership. Like, wouldn't it be amazing if somebody gave me money to leave my job because I'm sick of this place and I'm ready to move on?” — Todd Bishop, GeekWire
Todd Bishop · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Implicit in all of this, as the stock plunges, is that Amazon is willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. This is essentially the point they're making to Wall Street: sure, take it out on our stock now, but long term, they think they're in the right position.” — Todd Bishop, GeekWire
Todd Bishop · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The number that really stuck with me was $10 billion in quarterly revenue from OpenAI. This includes revenue-sharing payments from OpenAI as well as other business between the companies, such as OpenAI's use of Azure to train and run its models. The notable thing there is that's like twice as much as Microsoft makes on Xbox in revenue.” — Todd Bishop, GeekWire
Todd Bishop · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You're bad at your job because you think your job is getting positive stories and you should be thinking about your job as having interesting stories that showcase something about the company. And sometimes those are going to be less positive, but they're going to be more memorable.” — Frank X. Shaw, GeekWire
Frank X. Shaw · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“And I did not say anything. And I didn't say anything because I couldn't figure out how it was in my area of expertise to have an opinion. I'm the comms guy. I'm not the business person. … And of course, we launched it. 43 days later, we pulled it.” — Frank X. Shaw, GeekWire
Frank X. Shaw · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Facts are easy to dispute. If you're going to dispute something, you can dispute facts. Narratives are sticky. And so you got to work a lot harder and a lot faster if there's a narrative out there that you don't like or you believe is inaccurate.” — Frank X. Shaw, GeekWire
Frank X. Shaw · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The idea that somebody came up with a product, we built it perfectly, and everybody loves it is just boring. There is no story there. And sometimes that's what we're asked to tell, a story of just an unimpeded march to greatness. It's like, that's dull. That's like the plane landed safely. Nobody cares, right? Except for the people on the plane.” — Frank X. Shaw, GeekWire
Frank X. Shaw · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I actually don't care… Like, we don't live in a privacy-oriented world… Here's what I don't like… I have to pay $12 a month for the privilege of buying more crap on Amazon that I don't need.” — John Cook, GeekWire
John Cook · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Here you have an unmanned AI-piloted aircraft that has a 39-foot wingspan that's going to be built in this community's backyard and sent off wherever to cause havoc. And the concern, at least among some citizens, was making sure that it was not a data center getting set up in their backyard.” — John Cook, GeekWire
John Cook · 10 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think that we're paralyzed by decisions and everything right now. And in the music world, I can have any sounding kick drum in the world I want on any track, which means I can spend all day, and any producer out there knows this. You'll listen to 80 different kick drums to find the one instead of writing the song.” — Seth Paul, GeekWire
Seth Paul · 10 Oct 2026 Listen →
“To overemphasize the novelty or the impossibility of containing it becomes a very convenient excuse. Not to regulate it, right? Oh, it's moving too fast. We can't regulate it.” — Margaret O'Mara, GeekWire
Margaret O'Mara · 3 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Somebody might look at this and say, wait a second, why does Amazon care that a bot is buying? It's revenue regardless. And then you look at their income statement and you see, no, wait a second, Amazon brought in $68 billion in revenue last year from advertising. And bots don't have eyeballs. And that is the fundamental issue.” — Todd Bishop, GeekWire
Todd Bishop · 26 Sep 2026 Listen →

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