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Wizards of the Coast President Cynthia Williams on tabletop trends, 2023 strategy, and more

After stints with Microsoft’s Xbox team and Amazon’s finance and fulfillment departments, Cynthia Williams started a new role 10 months ago as president at Wizards of the Coast.

Kindle Scribe: Amazon says copy/paste, notebook organization, and other tools are ‘coming soon’

Amazon has quietly updated its Kindle Scribe product page with a glimmer of hope for anyone disappointed by some of the device’s initial shortcomings.

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

Seattle’s booming tech economy has altered the regional real estate market over the last decade, with home prices moving steadily upward in the face of low inventory and high demand.

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Washington, Oregon join California in requiring all new vehicle sales to be EVs by 2035

On Monday, Washington and Oregon officially joined California in requiring that all new vehicles sold in the states are zero-emitting by 2035.

New renderings show Univ. of Washington building that will house clean energy research and more

Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research centers in clean energy, medical science and more.

The implications of a new salary disclosure law that takes effect next month in Washington state

Employers in Washington state will be required to include the minimum and maximum salary they’re willing to pay on job listings beginning next month, when a new law designed to improve pay equity and empower workers takes effect. The law applies to companies with more than 15 employees that do business in Washington or recruit employees who are based in the state.

Legal tech startup Lexion is using GPT-3 to help lawyers write summaries and suggest edits

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.

Co-CEOs? After Salesforce shakeup, startup duos explain how they make the model work

For more than a decade, Todd Schwartz and Evan Richman have been sitting directly across from each other in the same office as co-chief executives of SkyKick. When they started the cloud automation startup in 2011, it was clear to both that they would split the leadership role, relying on their friendship to see eye-to-eye on the vision and direction of the startup.

‘We’re having an App Store moment’: Generative AI and ChatGPT top list of key technologies for 2023

Startup entrepreneur and investor Ben Gilbert, co-founder and managing director of Pioneer Square Labs and PSL Ventures, is always watching for the next big tech wave.

Fusion energy industry preps policymakers for ‘one of the biggest technological game-changers’ ever

SEATAC, Wash. — Fusion energy is real, it’s safe, and it’s poised to change the world.

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