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THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES

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.
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.
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Loss of another Seattle-area billionaire? Valve’s Gabe Newell is reported buyer of Florida estate
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the video game developer is the buyer of a waterfront estate north of Miami.
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.
No billboard needed: This Seattle startup scored World Cup airtime with a scrappy cardboard sign
Seattle's Yoodli used a cardboard sign to get its name and web address on Fox Sports' live broadcast of FIFA World Cup festivities from Pier 62 on the waterfront.
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.
Tech Moves: Seattle tech exec Brian Hall joins Mistral; Amazon departures; new Dropzone AI leader
After leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon and Google, Brian Hall joins Mistral; Amazon's VP of Alexa Domains retires; Dropzone AI names a head of product.
Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis exits Microsoft to launch stealth startup aiming to reinvent AI supply chain
Dan Lewis, who led the Seattle freight marketplace Convoy before it shut down in 2023, has left Microsoft to start a stealth company focused on running AI models more efficiently, extending a career spent at the intersection of AI and logistics.
Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human control
AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go.
This startup wants to move kidney care out of the fax-machine era
Seattle-based Apacendo Health is building AI agents that read incoming faxes and enter patient data into electronic health records for nephrology practices, aiming to cut the administrative work that consumes hours of clinic staff time each day Read More
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.
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.
Seattle biotech heavy-hitters emerge from stealth with $46M for next-gen migraine treatments
Vedana Therapeutics emerged from stealth with a $46M Series A.
Startup led by Microsoft veterans debuts the first real-time carbon tracker for AI workloads
A new tool from Seattle-based startup Neuralwatt calculates the exact AI carbon footprint tracker metrics for individual prompts in real time to curb data center emissions.
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