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Amazon launches new AI tools, as Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusive cloud deal

Big changes are underway for the Seattle area’s tech titans. Amazon and Microsoft just rewrote the terms of their partnerships with OpenAI as all three companies charge ahead into the artificial intelligence frontier.
- Monica Nickelsburg
Lummi Nation accuses Whidbey Telecom of digging up, ignoring remains at Point Roberts

The Lummi Nation filed a lawsuit Monday that accuses Whidbey Telecom of repeatedly digging up and disturbing Native burial grounds at Point Roberts.
- Stephen Howie
AI as an attorney? Student uses ChatGPT, Gemini to sue UW over alleged racial discrimination

A California man is using AI as a team of lawyers, claiming colleges who rejected his son's application, including the University of Washington, did so based on racial discrimination.
- Monica Nickelsburg
Live: The risks and realities of AI chatbots

Monica sits down with journalists Kashmir Hill from the New York Times and Jeff Horwitz from Reuters to talk about their reporting on AI chatbots, and whether these new state regulations can protect us from their risks.
- Lucy Soucek
Are prediction markets illicit gambling? Washington state says yes

Washington is joining the queue of states bringing legal action against Kalshi, a popular prediction market. The platform allows users to wager money on everything from sports, to politics, to pop culture — and even military actions.
- Clare McGrane
Every tire produces a chemical that kills coho salmon. Can scientists pump the brakes?

What do you do when one of the most lethal substances to aquatic life emanates from every tire on the road?
- Stephen Howie
This Redmond company's tech will guide Artemis II back to Earth

This Friday evening, the Artemis II crew expects to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. And when that happens, technology from the Pacific Northwest will take center stage.
- Joshua McNichols
Microsoft promises more AI investments at University of Washington

Microsoft will ramp up its investment in the University of Washington.
- Joshua McNichols
The great data center space race includes a small company in Redmond

Elon Musk wants to put AI data centers in orbit. A company in Redmond beat him to it.
- Joshua McNichols
WA among states trying to block the sale of people's precise location data

Politicians in over half a dozen Democrat-led states, including Washington, want to ban companies from selling information about people's precise location. This, amid concerns that such data will be used to target vulnerable people, including immigrants. Former public radio correspondent Austin Jenkins covers infrastructure and the disruption industry for Pluribus News. He wrote recently about groups for and against banning location tracking. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to him about his reporting.
- John O'Brien

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