Walmart lays off Seattle-area tech workers | WeWork shutting down Capitol Hill location

WeWork to close Capitol Hill location: The co-working company, once valued at $47 billion, is vacating a signature office space in Seattle as it continues to deal with restructuring amid its recent bankruptcy filing. Read more.

Companies are increasingly using AI to speed up software development, but at what cost? That’s the focus of a new study examining how the use of AI tools like GitHub Copilot could be detrimental to overall code quality. Read more. 

Tech Moves: WellSaid Labs taps a new CEO; F5 hires a CISO; Slalom adds execs; and more key personnel changes. 

What happens to all that stuff shoppers return? Truckloads of goods destined for warehouses, the liquidation market, bin stores or landfills could end up on online auction marketplace Wander, a new startup from serial entrepreneur Jordan Allen, who previously founded Stay Alfred and Doorsey out of Spokane, Wash. Read more. 

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