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Top stories so far this week

‘I am very concerned’: Bill Gates says the world needs a plan to deal with AI, and he has three ideas to start
Bill Gates says the "turbulent AI era" has arrived, and the AI industry is crossing safety lines it once promised to respect. In a new essay and an interview with GeekWire, he lays out three ideas for managing what's coming: new national and global institutions, a category of jobs reserved for humans, and a tax on AI and robots. Read More
University of Washington and Seattle biotech win $245M patent judgment against Guardant
A Seattle biotech built on University of Washington research has won a $245 million patent judgment against Guardant Health over DNA sequencing technology, with the court also ordering ongoing royalties through 2033. Read More
Wizards of the Coast offers first look at ‘Warlock,’ the next video game based on ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
Wizards of the Coast and its subsidiary Invoke Studios released a first-look gameplay trailer for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, a new open-world action game based upon the systems and setting of Wizards’ popular tabletop role-playing game. Read More
Report: Amazon eyes ‘fully automated’ delivery stations to bring robotics to the last mile
Amazon is developing an internal initiative called Project Tetromino to build "fully automated" delivery stations, according to an internal planning document obtained by Business Insider. The effort could rely on technology from Boxbot, a robotics startup that uses AI-driven storage trays to sequence packages for vehicle loading. Read More
Etzioni on AI: An Opinionated Glossary of AI
Everyone in tech says things like LLM, open weights, RAG and agent; far fewer could define precisely what they all mean. Oren Etzioni sorts out about 30 AI terms in plain English, with a blunt verdict on each and one novel phrase he believes isn't used enough. Read More
Jeff Bezos remembers Dolly Parton — a recipient of his $100M ‘Courage and Civility’ award
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the chorus of people who said they were touched by the life and work of Dolly Parton as he shared his condolences after the passing of the entertainment legend. Read More
Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data
Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database developers use to analyze large amounts of data without paying for a cloud data warehouse. The team joins AWS, but the DuckDB project itself stays free and open source under an independent foundation. Read More
Seattle’s AI weed wars: One startup maps them, another zaps them
Two Seattle-area startups are taking different approaches to an age-old farming problem: using AI to find weeds — and then eliminate them. TerraClear is mapping individual weeds across entire fields, while Carbon Robotics is using AI-powered lasers to zap them. Now, increasingly sophisticated AI models are giving both approaches a bigger opportunity: teaching machines to understand the farm itself. Read More
Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M and partners with building products giant
Under the five-year agreement, Builders FirstSource will integrate Digs’ AI platform into its digital ecosystem, expanding tools for its 140,000 builder clients. Read More
How the FTC’s last-minute settlement with Zillow and Redfin reshapes their $100M rentals deal
Zillow and Redfin settled an antitrust case with the FTC and five states on the day their trial was set to begin, agreeing to undo part of the $100 million deal that took Redfin out of the apartment rental advertising business. The proposed settlement requires Redfin to relaunch that business within six months, while the listings partnership between the two Seattle companies continues. Read More
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