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Portland-based Skip Technology raised $5 million to help the grid-scale battery startup begin deploying prototypes for field testing. The company hopes its long-duration batteries can one day power data centers and metro areas. Read more.

Amazon streamed its second Black Friday NFL game over the holiday weekend and once again demonstrated how it’s perfecting live sports on Prime Video. “It just has to work,” said VP Eric Orme, especially in the wake of Netflix’s technical issues during the Tyson-Paul boxing event. Read more.

How many five-letter words related to Seattle can you think of? A “Wordle”-style puzzle is among the features from a new game company started by two Seattle tech vets. Read more.

Hot Links:

• Jeff Bezos is among the investors in a $693 million funding round for Nvidia competitor Tenstorrent. (Quartz)

• AWS CEO Matt Garman says AI is a race without a finish line. (Wall Street Journal)

• Seattle’s King County Metro transit agency is testing AI camera technology from a San Francisco startup aimed at catching bus lane violators. (Seattle Times, King County Metro)

• Amazon will “undoubtedly” see attrition from its upcoming return-to-office policy. (Fortune via Yahoo Finance)