Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% year over year in 2025, driven by AI data center expansion, moving the company further from its 2030 carbon-negative goal. The company admitted sustainability sol…
Seattle startup Optimly raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding and won multiple awards at the Flywheel Investment Conference for its AI brand-reputation platform, which offers a public AI Brand Index and…
US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn on Prime Day, with AI chatbot referrals converting 40% better than search, email, or social media for the first time. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to retail …
Stanford University's 2026 AI Index reveals the United Arab Emirates and Singapore lead in generative AI adoption at 54% and 61% respectively, while the United States ranks 24th at 28.3% despite leadi…
Three Amazon employees who testified at Seattle City Council hearings about a proposed data center moratorium say they are under internal HR investigation, and have filed a complaint with the Seattle …
The Seattle Fire Department has been using Corti AI to listen to all 911 medical calls since December 2023 without public disclosure or city council approval, routing callers to a nurse line in Texas.…
Oren Etzioni, founder of TrueMedia.org, compared the backlash against AI-generated text to the late-20th-century anti-GMO movement in an opinion essay published by GeekWire. He cited Wikipedia's ban o…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, a UW Ph.D. alumnus, told University of Washington computer science graduates on June 12, 2026, that AI is an incubator for ideas, not a substitute for human ingenuity…
Microsoft President Brad Smith published a blog post Wednesday framing Gen Z backlash against AI as a wake-up call for the tech sector, acknowledging that graduates face automation of entry-level task…
University of Washington alumna and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Mary E. Brunkow will address graduates at UW's 151st Commencement on June 13, 2026, amid a wave of student protests against tech execu…
Microsoft referenced a long-rumored Copilot Super App during the Microsoft Build 2026 keynote but did not present a live, functioning demo on stage. CEO Satya Nadella told the audience the company wil…
Microsoft announced Project Solara, a new operating system built on Android for AI agent-powered gadgets, at Build 2026. The company demonstrated two concept devices—a desk terminal and a wearable bad…
Meta cut 1,395 jobs in Washington state, roughly 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring that eliminated about 8,000 positions to shift resources toward artificial intellige…
Pope Leo XIV released the encyclical "Magnifica Humilitas" on May 25, characterizing artificial intelligence as an industrial-revolution scale change that embeds moral weight in algorithms and design …