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Top stories so far this week

How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned
404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has roots in a Seattle non-profit group. Read More
GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform
GitHub was down for more than three hours Monday morning, breaking the website, code review tools, automated build systems and Copilot. It's the latest reliability problem for a platform whose capacity planning has been outrun by AI coding tools. Read More
Go inside Endurance Energy, the Seattle startup tapping underwater volcanoes for geothermal power
Endurance Energy is running full-tilt in its cavernous new Seattle facility as it prepares to deploy a 100-kilowatt generator to an oceanic volcano off the coast of Oregon. The company is betting that the technology can one day electrify entire cities. We got a look inside. Read More
Protesters dressed as rogue AI agents target OpenAI in Bellevue with balloons and hot pink vests
A national campaign against AI expansion made its Seattle-area stop Friday at OpenAI's Bellevue office, where demonstrators in hot pink "AI agent" vests entered the lobby with balloons and a chorus of "Happy Rogue Day to OpenAI." The protest drew national attention. Read More
Etzioni on AI: Become a power user
Oren Etzioni lays out 20 habits and settings that separate AI power users from everyone else, from letting AI interview you before it starts, to deciding once what it may never do on your behalf. Read More
Amazon drone delivery set to expand nationally, reaching nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year
Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service is finally going national. It's a milestone nearly 13 years in the making: Jeff Bezos unveiled the program on 60 Minutes in December 2013, to widespread skepticism. Both the technology and the regulations took far longer than expected. Read More
Internal memo: Eight execs out at Expedia Group in AI-driven shakeup
Expedia Group is parting ways with at least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents as it reorganizes its product and technology organization around AI, according to an internal memo obtained by GeekWire. The memo from the company's product and technology chiefs also names five leaders who were promoted. Read More
Filings show Amazon’s stake in electric trucking company that just struck a deal for 500 Tesla Semis
Einride's first earnings report as a public company shows Amazon holding warrants for about 12% of the Swedish electric trucking company, vesting as Amazon buys freight services. Einride also announced a deal to deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other customers. Read More
BuyWander moves HQ from Spokane to Seattle area as retail-returns startup grows team to 325 people
BuyWander, the Spokane-born retail returns marketplace, has moved its headquarters to the Seattle area and grown to 325 employees as it expands nationally, adding four executives including two former Amazon leaders. Read More
Adaptive Biotech co-founder raises $15M for new startup to rethink how AI trains on science
Harlan Robins spent years as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, helping build massive datasets to decode… Read More
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