1:37 PM PDT Space1:37 PM PDT Cowboy Space leases a huge facility in the Seattle area to produce hardware for orbital data centers
6:37 AM PDT Podcast NBA’s Ballmer crackdown echoes Microsoft antitrust; SF vs. Seattle housing; and a Seahawks tech twist
6:50 PM PDT Artificial Intelligence6:50 PM PDT Seattle Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging they trained their AI on its journalism
2:54 PM PDT Education2:54 PM PDT WSU President Betsy Cantwell builds custom AI agents — but won’t ask them to predict the Apple Cup
8:13 AM PDT Games8:13 AM PDT ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ exhibit makes a weekend run in Seattle, with fan art and 35 years of history
7:30 AM PDT Startup Spotlight7:30 AM PDT Startup Spotlight: Food photographer uses 25-year archive to build an AI tool that eliminates costly reshoots
7:13 PM PDT Space7:13 PM PDT NASA’s chief talks up nuclear power during ‘Inspiration Tour’ of Northwest space ventures
4:24 PM PDT Geek Life4:24 PM PDT New Seahawks co-owner with deep Seattle tech roots says, ‘I’m the 12th man … I want to represent that’
2:18 PM PDT Sports Tech2:18 PM PDT Two familiar Seattle tech figures turn up on Seahawks co-owner list as sale is finalized
12:54 PM PDT Startups12:54 PM PDT Startup takes on AI hallucinations with $25M and an HQ rooted in a small Washington town
12:36 PM PDT Startups12:36 PM PDT Tech Moves: Microsoft names execs; DAT, Oracle and Hiya departures; new Zillow policy lead
12:18 PM PDT Artificial Intelligence12:18 PM PDT Tech industry’s robotics talent crunch has UW’s new grad program nearly full before day one
10:42 AM PDT Space10:42 AM PDT Blue Ring for a Red Planet: Blue Origin wins $700M from NASA for Mars Telecommunications Orbiter
9:31 AM PDT Transportation9:31 AM PDT Uber laying off 93 Washington state workers, hitting engineer and management roles at Seattle office
9:15 AM PDT Sustainability9:15 AM PDT How a new $7.5M UW facility aims to spark U.S. battery innovation
8:18 AM PDT Education8:18 AM PDT UW pays $600K to settle lawsuit with computer science professor over parody land acknowledgment
3:00 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences3:00 AM PDT AI learns nature’s code: Allen Institute, UW and Fred Hutch launch $95M open science initiative
3:02 PM PDT Education3:02 PM PDT McGraw Hill acquires Teachally, an AI startup for teachers led by Seattle tech vet Daniel Bernstein
2:24 PM PDT Sports Tech2:24 PM PDT NBA suspends Steve Ballmer for 1 year, fines L.A. Clippers $30M over salary-cap scheme
1:31 PM PDT Mobile News1:31 PM PDT How to make industry giants chase you, and other lessons from 28 years inside T-Mobile
1:02 PM PDT Real Estate1:02 PM PDT AI wealth fuels San Francisco’s housing boom while tech layoffs weigh down Seattle
9:26 AM PDT Artificial Intelligence9:26 AM PDT Kids go from curious to frustrated playing with AI-stuffed toys, UW study finds
8:07 AM PDT Tech8:07 AM PDT Seismic CEO on the Highspot merger: revenue, job cuts, Seattle, AI, and the Salesforce question
7:00 AM PDT Startups7:00 AM PDT NewDays brings its AI-driven dementia care platform to Nevada, expands seed round to $16M
2:57 PM PDT Startups2:57 PM PDT Wyze treats home security like a social feed with new AI-powered ‘Stories’ feature
2:22 PM PDT Artificial Intelligence2:22 PM PDT Madrona’s annual IA40 list shows an AI industry splitting in two
10:38 AM PDT Space10:38 AM PDT Juno Propulsion wins $1.2M grant from NSF to advance non-toxic space propulsion system
10:33 AM PDT Geek Life10:33 AM PDT Drone meets bobcat: Police find novel use for UAV after wild animal breaks into Seattle-area home