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Amazon grows online grocery delivery network: The Seattle tech giant inked a deal with Metropolitan Market to offer grocery delivery to customers shopping on Amazon.com. In addition to delivery from Amazon Fresh and its Whole Foods Market subsidiary, Amazon partners with other grocery and specialty retailers to allow orders via its e-commerce site. Read more.

Amazon Mechanical Turk problems: Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in the system. Read more.

In other Amazon news: The company’s “Just Walk Out” checkout-free technology is spreading to more stadiums and college campuses, including in Seattle, where the Seahawks will have six new concession and retail locations using the system at Lumen Field when the season kicks off. Read more.

Tech Moves: F5 chief product officer Kara Sprague named CEO at security company HackerOne; tech vet Taimur Rashid returns to AWS; Fred Hutch adds former Russell Investments CEO Michelle Seitz to board; and more personnel changes.

NFL fans looking for a betting edge this season have a new app to try. Portland-based Field Vision, a startup launched by a former Nike executive, uses artificial intelligence to crunch data on team and player matchups for predictions on every game, every week. Read more.

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  • Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PCs are built with chips that aren’t compatible with some leading video games, such as “Fortnite.” (The Wall Street Journal)

  • OpenAI is making big changes as it tries to balance AI safety and turning a profit. (New York Times

  • Seattle Public Library said Tuesday that all of its services are back after it completed months of work to recover from a ransomware attack. (X

  • The Port of Seattle, meanwhile, said baggage claim and flight information displays are coming back at Sea-Tac Airport in the aftermath of a cybersecurity attack. (Port of Seattle)

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