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Amazon drones go national, inside Anduril’s Seattle buildup, and AirTag leads to secret book-scanning site
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s delivery drones are going national, nearly 13 years after Jeff Bezos unveiled them on 60 Minutes. We listen back and discuss what’s next.
Plus: We go inside Anduril’s unmarked Bellevue office as the defense company builds toward 1,000 Seattle-area engineers; a reporter hides an AirTag in a rare book and tracks it to a secret Amazon book-scanning facility in Las Vegas; and an Anduril-themed trivia challenge.
Audio editing and production by Curt Milton.
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Amazon drone delivery
- Amazon drone delivery set to expand nationally, reaching nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year
- Amazon’s big surprise: Working on autonomous flying delivery drones — GeekWire, December 2013
- Jeff Bezos unveils the Prime Air prototype on 60 Minutes — YouTube
- Amazon Prime Air drone delivery expansion — Amazon
- Andy Jassy’s 2025 letter to shareholders — Amazon
- Walmart, Wing expand drone delivery coverage — Supply Chain Dive
The AirTag and the book-scanning facility
- How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned
- We tracked a shipment of rare books. It ended at an Amazon AI training facility — 404 Media
- AI companies are buying tons of old books because they’re free of AI slop — 404 Media
- Trash Transparency Project — Basel Action Network
- America’s e-waste: a GPS tracker tells all — PBS NewsHour
- Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors — Associated Press
Anduril in the Seattle region
- Inside Anduril’s AI warfighting buildup: Defense giant sees a path to 1,000 Seattle-area engineers
- Anduril exits Seattle shipyard following canceled Navy program and omission from new warship list
- Defense tech giant Anduril eyes new funding at $100B valuation as Seattle expansion draws protests — GeekWire, July 2026
- AI weapons under scrutiny as activists plan weekend protest at Anduril’s Seattle office — GeekWire, July 2026
- Anduril lands $5B as defense giant builds autonomous warship operation in Seattle — GeekWire, May 2026
- Defense giant Anduril is quietly building autonomous warships on Seattle’s historic ship canal — GeekWire, April 2026
- Military tech giant Anduril lands in Bellevue, doubling footprint in Seattle region — GeekWire, July 2025
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