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Top stories so far this week

Five years in, new analysis links Seattle’s ‘JumpStart’ tax to downtown decline
A new Downtown Seattle Association report says the city's JumpStart payroll tax has helped drive jobs and office value out of downtown over its first five years, pointing to booming Bellevue as the contrast.
What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a UW alum, returned to campus Friday with an optimistic but clear-eyed message about AI for Allen School graduates — many of them headed into the industry to help shape the future of technology.
Helion secures world’s first regulatory licenses for fusion power plant being built in Washington
Everett-based Helion secures a historic regulatory first for its 50-megawatt fusion plant in Washington, clearing a vital hurdle for the clean energy facility.
Two pizzas and a prototype: How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions
Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services.
Coffee town meets its matcha: Robots help power ex-Axon leader’s Seattle beverage startup Vale
Luke Larson is buzzing about matcha and his plans to build Vale into a Seattle-born beverage empire — think Starbucks, but make it matcha — scaling from a handful of local cafes and mobile bars to a nationwide network of thousands of automated machines.
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic Fable concerns prior to U.S. order forcing models offline
Andy Jassy was reportedly among the tech leaders who flagged security risks in Anthropic's newest AI models to senior Trump administration officials — an awkward turn for Amazon, which has invested billions in the AI lab.
Having sex in space would be tricky, but having kids in space is riskier
Researchers worry about the reproductive risks posed by the reduced gravity and the high radiation levels that space settlers would face.
Report: Seattle using AI to route certain 911 calls — without caller knowledge or public review
Denmark-based Corti's AI has been listening to all Seattle 911 medical calls and prompting dispatchers to route certain patients to a nurse-staffed Texas call center rather than send an ambulance, the Times found.
Egypt and Belgium tied, but drones grab a World Cup win over Seattle with lighted scoreboard
Visit Seattle calls the lighted display the first-ever drone scoreboard, and the destination marketing organization plans the activation for five more matches that will be played in Seattle.
Why startup vet Robbie Cape chose insurance — a tough VC, a trillion-dollar market and the money
The Seattle tech entrepreneur revealed on Tuesday that he's building a new startup to reimagine the insurance industry, launching The Instrument with backing from Pioneer Square Labs.
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