Nuclear company TerraPower broke ground Monday on its commercial power plant, located near a soon-to-be-retired coal power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. The company’s Natrium reactor could become the first sodium-cooled,… Read More
Not just books but entire bookshelves have been devoted to the life and career of Bill Gates at this point, but the 68-year-old Microsoft co-founder has yet to tell the… Read More
Bill Gates left Harvard to start Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on Facebook. But the two tech moguls made it back to school for a reunion… Read More
Melinda French Gates announced Monday that she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle-based philanthropic organization she started with her ex-husband in 2000. In… Read More
“Everyone poops,” declares the classic children’s book used by parents, including me, to help their kids understand what is a natural part of all animals’ lives. “Everyone poops — and… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed in “The Everything War,” the new book by Dana Mattioli… Read More
Bill Gates grabbed a wheelbarrow and shovel on Wednesday to fill a parking lot pothole with a new carbon trapping asphalt. Gates was visiting Modern Hydrogen, a Seattle-area climate tech… Read More
Inside TerraPower’s cavernous 65,000 square-foot laboratory north of Seattle, there’s a suite of stations for experimenting with new materials and cutting-edge methods for generating nuclear power. One area is dominated… Read More
Bill Gates is back with one of his seasonal traditions, offering three of the best books that he read in 2023 as recommendations for holiday gift givers. In a new… Read More
In the world of Bill Gates, many — maybe most? — of the world’s big challenges rely on innovation if they’re to be solved. Eight years ago he began applying… Read More
Two former investors for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and the Gates family investment office have launched a $135 million investment fund focused on startups using “deep technology”… Read More
Likewise, the Seattle-area content recommendation startup that spun out of Bill Gates’ private office five years ago, launched a free AI assistant called Pix to help users find TV shows,… Read More
Peregrine Hydrogen, a Santa Cruz, Calif., startup developing technology for producing clean hydrogen, raised $7.8 million in seed financing. The company is aiming to manufacture climate friendly hydrogen that is… Read More
You might not know it from his recent comments, but there was a time in the late-1990s when Elon Musk was a fan of Bill Gates and Microsoft. During his… Read More
Walter Isaacson’s new book “Elon Musk” reveals more details about the billionaire beef between the Tesla chief and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In an excerpt from Isaacson’s bio on CNBC,… Read More
Humans need to understand the risks of artificial intelligence, appreciate the potential rewards, and work with the technology rather than avoid it. It’s the new reality, and the only question… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of his trip to China, according to a report from Reuters. Gates said Wednesday that he landed… Read More
Bill Gates has made no secret of his love for “The Great Gatsby,” the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald in which a green light at the end of a… Read More
Likewise, the Bellevue, Wash.-based entertainment discovery platform, is tapping into ChatGPT to leverage AI and find more information and recommendations for its users across the vast landscape of television shows,… Read More
Despite dropping out of Harvard University after only three semesters, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates managed to carve out a pretty good life for himself with his tech company and his… Read More
Bill Gates says he’s bullish about the potential for artificial intelligence to transform education and learning — telling a crowd of business and education leaders this week that AI will… Read More
Bill Gates is a self-professed car guy who finds something meditative about driving. He’s even gotten himself into trouble with his past interpretation of the rules of the road. The… Read More
One of the pivotal figures in the rise of the graphical user interface says he sees a similar revolution in the new age of artificial intelligence. In a post Tuesday… Read More
A Seattle teen is creating a bit of turbulence with a website tallying the carbon emissions of the ultra-rich traveling on private jets. Akash Shendure totaled up last year’s jet… Read More
Bill Gates logged on Wednesday for his 11th Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, and spent more than an hour fielding questions related to climate change, artificial intelligence, ethical billionaires, and… Read More
Climate change is starting to receive the funding and attention that some activists, scientists and policy makers have sought for decades. And a cadre of ultra-wealthy individuals are helping lead… Read More
How closely were you reading GeekWire this year? Here’s your chance to put that accumulated knowledge to the test. It’s our 2022 News Quiz — this year featuring multiple planes,… Read More
In his annual end-of-the-year essay, Bill Gates looks ahead to 2023 and the global challenges he hopes to help combat through his philanthropic work. Childhood disease and death, education, climate… Read More
Bill Gates has made a tradition of releasing lists and reviews of his favorite books, but his holiday installment this year is a little different. His five picks aren’t his… Read More
Inside a Seattle waterfront center cloaked in wildfire smoke, climate tech innovators and investors came together this week at the Breakthrough Energy Summit. The event was a chance to share… Read More
