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Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users

AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user’s behalf at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa.

RFQ out for $900M West Seattle Link

Sound Transit has issued a request for qualifications and proposed approach (RFQPA) for heavy civil general contractor/construction manager services for the West Seattle Link light-rail extension.

More pickleball for Seattle Parks?

Throughout June, Seattle Parks and Recreation is hosting a second round of public engagement meetings for its Outdoor Racquet Sports Strategy.

The skills people still perform better than AI, according to workplace experts

Some qualities are so unmistakably human and important, AI can’t easily replace them yet.

Mariners trounced by Nats 10-1

A lot of things went wrong in today’s 10-1 loss to the Nationals. You’d think so with a score like that. But the one I want to focus on is pitch selection. Emerson Hancock got the start today, and while he’s been having a breakout year, some people have been arguing that while he’s improved, […]

37-36: Chart

Nationals 10, Mariners 1 When you toss a game so bad we won’t list the highest WPA in the chart: Emerson Hancock, -0.33 WPA Game Thread Comment of the Day

Mariners Game #73 Preview and Discussion: 6/14, Seattle at Washington

The Mariners will try to wipe the slate clean today behind Emerson Hancock. He could use a great outing as much as the Mariners could use one from him. Since his first start in May, Hancock has looked less like a breakout star and more like a somewhat improved version of his old self. Over […]

Mariners News: José Ramírez, Tarik Skubal, and Jalen Brunson

Good morning and happy Sunday everybody! Nick links are back which means injury news is back too. I want to think it’s not my fault but the evidence is getting overwhelming at this point. I’m heading out of town for a week and I’m hoping that that can help stem the tide. I suppose time […]

Mariners Lose 8-3, I Snooze… Do-Re-Mi

It was a terrible first inning for the Mariners, in what would eventually be an 8-3 loss to the Nationals on Saturday. Cole Young flew out on the first pitch of the game. Julio Rodríguez struck out on the next three. And Josh Naylor popped out on the first pitch he saw. That’s right: Nationals’ […]

37-35: Chart

Nationals 8, Mariners 3 Day baseball nap: Colt Emerson, .17 WPA Day baseball nap, on the cap: Luis Castillo, -.37 WPA Game thread comment of the day:

Mariners Game #72 Preview and Discussion: SEA at BAL, 6/13

The Mariners will play a real baseball game today. Yesterday’s game was delayed two hours due to rain, resulting in a purely non-competitive game in a mostly empty stadium. The Mariners won 10-2. Build a roof. The sun is out on Saturday in the nation’s capital, however, and the Mariners will have to play a […]