Is the tech industry impacting Seattle’s cooling real estate market?

• But a recent spate of layoffs combined with tumbling tech stock valuations now may be putting downward pressure on the Seattle real estate market, which has seen some of the nation’s steepest price drops and a sizable increase in housing supply. Read more. 

Bill Gates is going to be a grandfather in the new year. It’s giving the Microsoft co-founder a new outlook on the global challenges he is helping to combat.

• In his annual end-of-the-year essay, Gates said he’s “more inspired than ever to help everyone’s children and grandchildren have a chance to survive and thrive.”

Seattle legal tech startup Lexion is the latest company to take advantage of GPT-3, the language model from OpenAI that drew widespread interest following the recent release of ChatGPT.

• “It’s clear to us from the experimentation we’ve been doing that it’s already going to be commercially useful for people to do this,” Lexion CEO Gaurav Oberoi said of businesses using GPT-3. Read more. 

Fusion energy is real, it’s safe, and it’s poised to change the world. Study up, get ready, and make sure the industry has the right regulatory oversight.

• That’s the message from fusion energy industry representatives to legislators and regulators following the Dec. 13 announcement of a historic milestone in the field, the production of net energy in a fusion experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Read more.