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The Trump administration layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford, NOAA, the Bonneville Power Administration and elsewhere.

Microsoft says it has developed a breakthrough quantum processor based on a new state of matter, giving it a clear path to achieve quantum computing’s long-term promise of solving some of the world’s most difficult problems.

A Seattle-based team that contributed to development on the popular online action game Marvel Rivals has reportedly been dismissed by its parent company.

Leaders at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center said the Trump administration's proposed NIH funding cuts would be "chilling, dramatic, horrific."

With the changing of the guard in Washington comes uncertainty as to how the new administration will choose to address, or not, what the FTC under Biden had flagged as a key contributor to the ongoing housing affordability crisis in the U.S.: the widening use among rental property management companies of sophisticated “rent tech” software that suggests rent prices and occupancy levels.  The issue, as the former administration characterized it, centers on the substantial market share outfits such as RealPage and Yardi Systems have developed among landlords and rental management companies.

Perspectives on Ai from Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the Seattle-based nonprofit that has been innovating in open-source AI since long before it was popular.

Marc Whitten, a longtime tech executive with roots in the Seattle region, has joined Meta to lead a new team working on AI-powered humanoid robots.

The rise of generative AI and other automation technologies will surely create efficiencies within the $4.5 trillion healthcare industry.

Strix Leviathan, a Seattle-based digital assets startup, has been acquired by Parataxis, a crypto hedge fund based in New York CIty.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell expressed optimism for the city’s future while addressing concerns about the Trump administration in his annual “State of the City” speech on Tuesday.

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