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The Urbanist
20 days
Op-Ed: Help Seattle Get the Frequent Transit Network We Deserve
The Move All Seattle Sustainability Coalition is calling on City Council to approve Mayor Katie Wilson's proposed Seattle Transit Measure renewal to fund vastly more bus service and expand fare subsidies to the lowest income Seattleites. Here's why.
GeekWire
21 days
What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a UW alum, returned to campus Friday with an optimistic but clear-eyed message about AI for Allen School graduates — many of them headed into the industry to help shape the future of technology. Read More
GeekWire
21 days
Following through in Cleveland: A GeekWire trip report, plus data center ‘theater’ and the SpaceX IPO
John Cook and Charles Fitzgerald call into the podcast from an abandoned Westinghouse factory in Cleveland to debrief on a Rust Belt city's comeback and what Seattle can learn from it. Plus: the new data center moratorium, and why Fitzgerald is sitting out the SpaceX IPO. Read More
The Urbanist
21 days
Op-Ed: Let’s Accelerate Stalled Progress on the Seattle Bike Network
Seattle’s pace of new protected bike lane openings is too slow. Cascade Bicycle Club is launching a campaign to urge the mayor and SDOT to jumpstart the pace of investment.
The Urbanist
22 days
King County Approves 0.1% Sales Tax Bump to Aid County Roads
Around $90 million per year in additional funding will bolster King County's roads division thanks to the 5-4 vote, with a small pass-through program providing a slice of the pie to local cities and towns. A provision capping Seattle's cut of that funding was ultimately defeated.
GeekWire
22 days
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’
Microsoft has spent years subsidizing Xbox rather than profiting from it, CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged this week, as he addressed… Read More
The Urbanist
22 days
Amtrak Cascades Speeds Up Trips from Vancouver, BC with Preclearance
New U.S. customs prescreening protocols being carried out before Amtrak departures from Vancouver are allowing trains to skip an extra stop at the Canadian border, cutting trip times by at least 10 minutes. Larger time savings may be achievable soon.
The Urbanist
22 days
Op-Ed: To Save Mandatory Housing Affordability, We Have to Recalibrate It
Nonprofit housing leader Patience Malaba makes the case that a temporary, two-year recalibration of Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability program is critical to unfreeze the stalled-out housing pipeline, generate needed affordable housing revenue, and save MHA's very legitimacy.
GeekWire
22 days
Tech Moves: Microsoft exec departs Azure; Xealth gets first CRO; Slalom names Pacific NW leader
— Microsoft technical fellow Marcus Fontoura is leaving the company after serving as Azure Core’s chief technology officer for more… Read More
GeekWire
22 days
Oregon data center battery maker ZincFive to go public via SPAC deal valued at $600 million
Oregon-based nickel-zinc battery manufacturer ZincFive is headed to the Nasdaq via a $600M SPAC merger with SparkLabs Group to fund increased manufacturing to meet growing demand. Read More
GeekWire
22 days
As graduates push back on AI, UW’s Nobel-winning commencement speaker takes different approach
Nobel laureate Mary Brunkow will be the featured speaker at Saturday's 151st commencement. She's a scientist, not a tech executive — and unlike other graduation speakers this season, she's not planning to sell students on AI. Read More
GeekWire
22 days
Opinion: SpaceX is no Tesla
Seattle AI veteran Oren Etzioni argues that SpaceX's record-setting IPO valuation prices in three unproven bets at once — and that the Tesla playbook doesn't apply at this starting point. Read More