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Inside Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy climate tech summit: The event in Seattle, led by the Microsoft co-founder’s climate innovation initiative, was a chance to share news about cutting-edge technologies being developed and deployed to help save a warming Earth. The summit provided viewpoints on climate progress and prospects from leaders in corporations, government and VC. Here are some of the takeaways.

Combating workplace burnout: “The burnout we’re experiencing right now is a lot of trauma, stress, uncertainty, loneliness, loss and ultimately grief that has not been dealt with, that has nowhere to go,” Megan Shen of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center said at the recent GeekWire Summit. Read how employers can support workers.

Report: Elon Musk plans to gut Twitter workforce: If and when the head of Tesla and SpaceX takes over the social media company for $44 billion, he’ll slash 7,500 workers, or 75% of the workforce, according to The Washington Post. Depending on services and job types cut, Twitter's Seattle engineering office could be impacted.

MagniX expansion: The Everett, Wash.-based company has been a pioneer in the development of electric propulsion systems for aircraft, and now it's also aiming to be a pioneer in the development of hydrogen fuel cells.

Tech Moves: Former head of Microsoft VC fund joins Intuit Ventures; HoloLens leader departs; and more personnel changes.

Microsoft reveals mobile app store ambitions: As part of the regulatory review of its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft said it plans to build a “new Xbox Mobile Platform” — here’s why that reframes the deal.

Leafly cutting 56 jobs: The Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace is using layoffs and attrition as part of a cost-cutting restructuring plan. Read more.   

Thanks for reading, and enjoy the rain! — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com, and GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser, kurt@geekwire.com.
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