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The Urbanist
about 3 hours
Is Sound Transit Abandoning the Lofty Goals of the Enterprise Initiative?
Sound Transit's lofty Enterprise Initiative was aimed at getting ballooning budgets under control without cutting or delaying planned light rail projects. However, that may have been an overly ambitious goal, since the agency did have to resort to pulling those levers last month.
GeekWire
about 5 hours
Why startup vet Robbie Cape chose insurance — a tough VC, a trillion-dollar market and the money
The Seattle tech entrepreneur revealed on Tuesday that he's building a new startup to reimagine the insurance industry, launching The Instrument with backing from Pioneer Square Labs. Read More
GeekWire
about 6 hours
Egypt and Belgium tied, but drones grab a World Cup win over Seattle with lighted scoreboard
Visit Seattle calls the lighted display the first-ever drone scoreboard, and the destination marketing organization plans the activation for five more matches that will be played in Seattle. Read More
GeekWire
about 6 hours
Next-gen nuclear company TerraPower plants flag in UK
TerraPower, the Bellevue, Wash.-based nuclear energy company, announced the opening of a subsidiary office in the UK as it pursues its first international deployment. Read More
GeekWire
about 7 hours
SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon and briefly tops Microsoft in market value on Cursor acquisition news
Shares of SpaceX surged Tuesday, pushing the Elon Musk-led company above Amazon and into a neck-and-neck race with Microsoft for the title of the world's fourth-most valuable public company less than a week after its blockbuster $75 billion IPO. Read More
GeekWire
about 7 hours
Helion secures world’s first regulatory licenses for fusion power plant being built in Washington
Helion Energy announced Tuesday that it’s the first company in the world to receive regulatory licenses for a fusion power… Read More
GeekWire
about 8 hours
How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions
Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services. They've been using the tools themselves to quietly change how they work — starting with one of Amazon's most sacred processes. Read More
The Urbanist
about 8 hours
Community Transit Adjusts Service, Ends Last Bus Route to Seattle
Last week, Community Transit operated its last bus to Seattle, with the retirement of Snohomish express commuter Route 424. The agency added the Bellevue-bound Route 908 to replace it, with six other routes seeing tweaks.
GeekWire
about 9 hours
Startup led by Microsoft veterans debuts the first real-time carbon tracker for AI workloads
A new tool from Seattle-based startup Neuralwatt calculates the exact AI carbon footprint tracker metrics for individual prompts in real time to curb data center emissions. Read More
GeekWire
about 22 hours
UW Allen School honors Ridwell and Focused Space co-founders with 2026 alumni awards
Two University of Washington alumni who built companies out of everyday frustrations — hard-to-recycle household waste and the struggle to focus while working alone — have been recognized with the Allen School's 2026 Alumni Impact Awards. Read More
GeekWire
about 23 hours
Five years in, new analysis ties Seattle’s ‘JumpStart’ tax to downtown decline
A new Downtown Seattle Association report says the city's JumpStart payroll tax has helped drive jobs and office value out of downtown over its first five years, pointing to booming Bellevue as the contrast. Supporters, including Mayor Katie Wilson, call the tax a success. Read More
The Urbanist
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Zahilay Rolls Out Updated Transit Plan, as Budget Woes Cloud Metro's Future
The Metro's Next Stop plan rolled out last week by King County Executive Girmay Zahilay eyes a 12% increase in bus service by 2038. But a presentation this week at the county council paints a more dire picture of Metro's financial outlook over the near term.