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• In other news from AWS re:Invent, Amazon has come up with a new use for AI: helping its customers dump Microsoft Windows by migrating old .NET apps to Linux.

• GeekWire’s Todd Bishop is in Las Vegas reporting on the big Amazon cloud event. Follow him on LinkedIn, and follow our coverage here.

Seattle is a logistics tech and supply chain software epicenter. We spoke to key players in the sector about the city's supply chain talent pool and put together a list of related startups in the region. Check it out. 

$15 billion valuation: Veeam Software, a data protection and ransomware recovery company which relocated its headquarters to the Seattle area earlier this year, reached new heights following a $2 billion secondary share sale. Read more.

Kindle meets AI: One of the features of Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe is AI summarization, so we put it to the test in our review of the device — scribbling our thoughts and having the device generate a recap from eight pages of handwritten notes. Here’s what it produced.

Microsoft wants the Federal Trade Commission to examine whether the agency violated its own rules by allegedly leaking information related to a reported antitrust investigation into the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant. Read more. 

New to Seattle? It can be tough to adjust to any new city, and especially difficult in a place where “Freeze” is used to describe the type of welcome that locals offer. The “U.S. Chamber of Connection” is a new organization launching in Seattle in a bid to help tech newcomers and others settle in and make a meaningful home. Read more.

German conglomerate Continental announced that it sold Zonar Systems, a Seattle-based company that provides electronic fleet inspection and tracking systems for public and private fleets. Read more.

Electric bike riders looking to trade in and upgrade their machines can do so at Rad Power Bikes retail locations thanks to a new partnership between the Seattle-based company and used bike marketplace Upway. The goal is to increase electric mobility access for more people. Read more.

Hot Links:

• Amazon is being sued by the attorney general of the District of Columbia, who accuses the company of making slower deliveries to Prime members in lower-income neighborhoods. (The New York Times)

• Tammy Morales is resigning from the Seattle City Council, writing that her more conservative colleagues have “undermined my work as a policymaker.” (Publicola; Tammy Morales)

• Two University of Washington professors discuss how AI could enhance health care, what’s standing in the way, and whether there’s a downside to democratizing medical research. (UW News)

• Rising VC stars: Jon Chu from Khosla Ventures and Andrew Montgomery from Collaborative Fund are two Pacific Northwest names on a new list. (Business Insider)