Blue Origin flight marks a milestone for suborbital research

Amid growing concern about smartphones in schools, Washington’s public schools superintendent encouraged districts across the state to come up with plans to limit or ban students’ use of cell phones and smart devices on campus and in classrooms. Read more.

If you’re traveling through Sea-Tac Airport this Labor Day Weekend, you may notice some more traditional communication methods being used to relay flight and luggage information for passengers as an outage continues nearly a week after a suspected cyberattack. Read more.

Gray Line Partners is a new Seattle-based investment firm with a unique thesis and an internal AI model that helps identify software companies that fit its investing criteria. Read more.

The massive amount of energy required to power artificial intelligence tools is a troubling development for Microsoft, which has ambitious carbon emissions goals. But Brandon Middaugh, senior director of the company’s $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund, remains optimistic about meeting the targets. Here’s why. 

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• OpenAI is in talks to raise another massive round of funding from Microsoft and others at a reported valuation of more than $100 billion. (Wall Street Journal)

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