Seattle film fans, civic leaders react to rebirth of Cinerama 

• “Huge news for downtown”: Seattle civic leaders called the acquisition of Cinerama another boost for a city that has struggled to regain its pre-pandemic footing.

• Lights, camera, reaction: Film fans applauded the news, calling the theater a beloved meeting place and praising the legacy of Paul Allen and SIFF’s gift to Seattle.  

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee made his sales pitch for the state as the place for Nordic enterprises to do business in the climate tech and clean energy economy. “This is what we do in my state, we innovate,” he said at the Nordic Innovation Summit in Seattle. Read more.

We caught up with Minh Le, the Seattle startup ecosystem mainstay who spent 15 years at Silicon Valley Bank, to hear more about navigating the SVB downfall and his new gig with Stifel Bank. Read the Q&A.  

“In the VC world, there’s a gold rush going into AI.” A group of investors and engineering leaders discussed the impact of AI on companies, startups, and societies during a panel discussion in Bellevue, Wash., this week. Read more. 

Hot links:

• Microsoft and Meta compliance training videos look more like gripping drama shows on Netflix. (The Wall Street Journal)

• The NFL tapped Amazon Web Services to help create its 2023 NFL season schedule. And this was our favorite schedule-release content on Thursday. (AWS blog; Twitter)

• “I think it kind of died with Kurt Cobain, didn’t it?” That was author and professor Scott Galloway talking on his podcast Pivot about Seattle, where he visited this week to speak at Expedia. No, Scott, we’re still very much here. 

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