Get caught up on the newest know-how and startup information from the previous week. Listed below are the preferred tales on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 4, 2026.
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Invoice Gates makes practically $8B payout to Melinda French Gates as a part of divorce settlement
The cash exhibits up in tax filings as a 2024 donation to French Gates’ Pivotal Philanthropies Basis. … Learn Extra
Tech Strikes: Amazon chief lands at Anthropic; Microsoft authorities affairs vet retires
Steven Maheshwary, a former generative AI chief at Amazon, is now a go-to-market lead in strategic partnerships at Anthropic, the AI large behind Claude and backed by Amazon. … Learn Extra
Tech Strikes: AWS VP switches roles; Seattle’s new financial improvement head; Microsoft Groups exec departs
An AWS VP is switching roles; Seattle will get a brand new financial improvement lead; a Microsoft Groups VP departs; and extra within the newest tech strikes. … Learn Extra
Amazon tees up new personal label golf balls — right here’s how they stack up in opposition to Titleist and Taylormade
Amazon is taking a swing at golf balls, however are they value shopping for? … Learn Extra
Ring across the parking zone: Amazon’s safety firm unveils a $5,000 surveillance trailer
Amazon’s Ring is taking its home-security know-how into the parking zone with a $5,000 solar-powered surveillance trailer aimed toward building websites, retail facilities, and outside occasions — a transfer that places the doorbell maker into extra direct competitors with industrial safety suppliers. … Learn Extra
Desney Tan leaves Microsoft after 21 years main key analysis and healthcare initiatives
Microsoft Analysis chief Desney Tan is leaving the corporate after 21 years, closing a profession that spanned breakthrough work in human-computer interplay, well being “moonshots,” and merchandise together with Xbox Kinect and Microsoft Band. … Learn Extra
Ex-Expedia worker will get 4 years for planting spy cameras throughout Seattle campus in voyeurism case
A former Expedia Group worker who secretly recorded girls by hiding spy cameras all through the corporate’s Seattle headquarters — together with in bogs — was sentenced Friday to 4 years in jail. … Learn Extra
Tech Strikes: Amazon AI chief joins Google Cloud; Meta faucets new chief authorized officer from Microsoft
— Karthik Ramakrishnan, who spent the previous 14 years at Amazon the place he helped develop the corporate’s AI technique, has taken a VP function throughout the Knowledge Cloud group at Google Cloud. … Learn Extra
Trapped at a Tesla Supercharger: A comedy of errors and classes discovered from a primary EV highway journey
By the point we hit Kelso, it was clear my household’s post-Christmas EV journey was hitting the skids. … Learn Extra
Microsoft acquires knowledge analytics startup Osmos to gas push into ‘autonomous knowledge engineering’
As a substitute of promoting instruments alongside knowledge platforms, Osmos’ know-how will reside inside one. … Learn Extra
