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PubliCola
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Mayor’s Press Secretary Departs, Budget for Police Salary Hikes Tops $80 Million
1. Sage Wilson, Mayor Katie Wilson’s press secretary, is leaving the mayor’s office after less than seven months on the… The post Mayor’s Press Secretary Departs, Budget for Police Salary Hikes Tops $80 Million appeared first on PubliCola.
GeekWire
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Amazon cuts jobs in AGI group as it puts more focus on customer-facing AI
Amazon confirmed layoffs in its artificial general intelligence organization, the group behind its Nova models, as the company sharpens its AI focus toward tools for business customers. The cuts follow a year of leadership turnover in the group and a broader run of reductions since January. Read More
GeekWire
about 2 hours
Game developer Harebrained Schemes kicks off its new indie era with survival-horror RPG ‘GRAFT’
The latest game from Seattle-based developer Harebrained Schemes, and its first since its return to independence in 2023, is a dark sci-fi/horror adventure where the player must constantly change and enhance their body in order to survive. Read More
GeekWire
about 4 hours
Microsoft 2.5: A new series on the next generation of leaders
Mary Jo Foley is launching a GeekWire series profiling the people and priorities behind Microsoft's evolution. It's a look at what she calls the "Microsoft 2.5" era, where cloud and AI dominate but the company still can't walk away from Windows, Office, and enterprise customers whose products weren't built around AI. Read More
GeekWire
about 5 hours
Microsoft commits $60M to ‘Genesis Mission’ to help power Dept. of Energy’s AI-for-science push
The commitment includes Azure compute credits and a new internal program office, called SPARK, to coordinate the company's work with DOE's 17 national laboratories. Read More
GeekWire
about 6 hours
New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust
Docugami, the Kirkland, Wash., startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, is open-sourcing DGML, a format that turns business documents into structured, verifiable data for AI. The company is releasing it under an open-source license and partnering with Inveniam and Mantra to anchor the data on a blockchain. Read More
GeekWire
about 8 hours
The greenest goodbye: Human composting and the science of becoming soil
In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, disrupting a funeral industry that had been largely unchanged for decades. Now 14 states have legalized the climate-friendly practice and more than a dozen others are considering it. Additional startups have launched to offer a greener goodbye and all are looking to scale. Read More
Seattle Transit Blog
about 11 hours
Midweek Roundup: Park (or ride) the bus
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Daily Journal of Commerce
about 13 hours
Art takes over Seattle this weekend
The Seattle Art Fair 2026 is set to take place at Lumen Field Event Center July 23 to 26.
Daily Journal of Commerce
about 13 hours
$31M in grants to fund infrastructure
The state Department of Commerce has opened applications for the 2026 Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP). CHIP provides local governments with financial support for infrastructure associated with development projects.
Daily Journal of Commerce
about 13 hours
Amazon poised to buy empty new five-level warehouse in Chicago
The deal hasn't closed yet, but CoStar recently reported that Amazon is the anticipated buyer of a big new distribution center in Chicago, completely empty, with about 1.2 million square feet. JLL is the broker at 1237 W. Division St., on behalf of developer Logistics Property Co.
Daily Journal of Commerce
about 13 hours
New certification for tall building designers
In early 2027, the Council on Vertical Urbanism (formerly the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) will launch a new certification program for professionals working on the design of tall buildings.