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Fusion energy: Wishing upon a star in a jar — Introducing 'Positive Charge' from GeekWire

July 02, 2026

This week on the show, we're sharing the debut of Positive Charge, a new GeekWire podcast from reporter Lisa Stiffler and producer Laura Scott about the innovations that could help save the planet.  In this episode, they dig into the high-stakes race to harness the power of the sun and make fusion energy real, visiting two Seattle-area startups chasing this dream, and asking whether limitless clean power is finally within reach. Also out this week: their debut episode on the "forever che...

From the dot-com boom to AI security: F5 at 30, with CEO François Locoh-Donou

June 27, 2026

This week: F5 turns 30 years old this year, and the Seattle company has reinvented itself repeatedly to get here — starting, improbably, as a group of University of Washington students trying to build online video games. On this week's GeekWire Podcast, recorded on location at F5 Tower, the company's chairman, president and CEO François Locoh-Donou joins us to trace that journey, from a 1990s internet load-balancing startup to a company that helps keep many of the world's bigge...

Anthropic, Amazon, and the Fable shutdown; AI-powered school arrives; World Cup tech

June 20, 2026

Anthropic takes its most powerful models offline after a U.S. order, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly contributing to the concerns that helped trigger it. Todd and John dig into the Amazon-Anthropic dynamic, how agentic AI is upending Amazon's "working backwards" tradition, an AI-driven school arriving soon in the Seattle area, and the sensor-packed World Cup ball. With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop; edited by Curt Milton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.