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The Stranger
9 days
Pop Loser #31: SOPHIE Summer
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Big Freedia dropped the first track from her SOPHIE-produced EP, Linda Perry shaded two Billy/ies in one interview, and Robert Fripp has a testicle-related question. Plus, AI advancements that nobody asked for, and oh my god, I can’t stop listening to ABBA Gold! Subscribe to Pop Loser here! […] The post Pop Loser #31: SOPHIE Summer appeared first on The Stranger.
GeekWire
10 days
Blue Origin readies New Glenn rocket to launch 48 Amazon Leo satellites after FAA clearance
Five weeks after previous New Glenn launch failed, two companies founded by Jeff Bezos announce a mission that would add to Amazon's satellite broadband constellation. Read More
GeekWire
10 days
Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal
Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon's custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More
The Stranger
10 days
Dungeon Crawler Carl Is a Seattle Story Even Though the Whole City Is Destroyed on the First Page
In March, I picked up a book called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It consumed me. I spent the next four weeks tearing through the seven available books in the series. All I wanted to do was read. All other media tasted like sand. At one point, when I was finishing the fifth book in the series, […] The post Dungeon Crawler Carl Is a Seattle Story Even Though the Whole City Is Destroyed on the First Page appeared first on The Stranger.
The Stranger
10 days
Slog AM: Meta Killing More Jobs in King County, Dow Constantine Kicks Graham Street Station Into the Future, CDC Seeking Volunteers to Screen Travelers at Airports For Ebola
Meta keeps bleeding local jobs into the twilight of AI hype. The latest round of layoffs has eliminated 1,395 jobs in King County. Though some may think that AI itself is the cause of this escalating redundancy, a closer examination reveals that it is instead massive spending on AI infrastructure. But why are tech companies […] The post Slog AM: Meta Killing More Jobs in King County, Dow Constantine Kicks Graham Street Station Into the Future, CDC Seeking Volunteers to Screen Travelers at Airports For Ebola appeared first on The Stranger.
GeekWire
10 days
Seattle teens to take on real-world ocean science challenges in underwater robotics championship
This year's tasks include mapping cold-water coral ecosystems, deploying ocean observatory instrumentation, modeling offshore wind turbines, and operating profiling floats beneath sea ice. Read More
GeekWire
10 days
CodeIntegrity raises $4.8M to put permanent guardrails on unpredictable AI agents
While companies rush to deploy autonomous AI tools, CodeIntegrity has raised new funding to build runtime guardrails needed to keep unpredictable models from leaking sensitive enterprise data. The startup's co-founders recently relocated from the Seattle area to San Francisco. Read More
GeekWire
10 days
Eli Lilly to acquire Seattle-area biotech in $1.5 billion bet on next-generation shingles vaccine
Eli Lilly agreed to acquire Bothell, Wash.-based Curevo Vaccine for up to $1.5 billion in cash. The deal centers on a next-generation shingles vaccine that reduced side effects by more than half in a Phase 2 study. Read More
GeekWire
10 days
Amazon offers its AI shopping tech to outside retailers in new phase of agentic commerce race
AWS is releasing the Agentic Shopping Assistant, a tool that lets retailers build AI shopping experiences using the same technology behind Amazon's Alexa for Shopping, which drove nearly $12 billion in incremental sales last year. Read More
GeekWire
10 days
Photos: Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta discloses 1,400 local job cuts
The Meta CEO's 387-foot Launchpad passed through the Ballard Locks toward Lake Union on Tuesday, the same day the company disclosed nearly 1,400 layoffs in Washington state. Read More
GeekWire
10 days
NASA taps Blue Origin to deliver lunar rovers for Moon Base initiative
Blue Moon lander will carry Astrolab and Lunar Outpost moon buggies, while Firefly will drop off NASA's rocket-powered drones. Read More
The Stranger
11 days
Doom and Groom
Should I feel weird about my husband’s grooming situation when he was young with a family friend if he doesn’t feel weird about it? He’s mid-thirties. He’s known this woman since he was seven and she used to babysit for him. She was a family friend. Once she returned to England, my husband went to visit her […] The post Doom and Groom appeared first on The Stranger.