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pacific northwest national laboratory

Building a ‘digital twin’ 10,000 feet underground: PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo team up on geothermal AI

As tech giants hunt for massive amounts of clean electricity, PNNL, Nvidia and Fervo Energy are partnering to develop a new public tool that aims to eliminate the guesswork of drilling into the Earth’s molten depths. Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft exec departs Azure; Xealth gets first CRO; Slalom names Pacific NW leader

Microsoft technical fellow and Azure Core CTO Marcus Fontura is departing; Xealth named its first CRO; and Slalom recruited a PNW lead from Accenture. Read More

Tech Moves: Xbox names CTO; Smartsheet gets first AI chief; Amazon VP departs for DoorDash

Microsoft promoted Scott Van Vliet to Xbox CTO, while Smartsheet elevated Drew Gardner to the newly created role of chief AI officer. Amazon saw some departures and arrivals, including a VP’s exit for DoorDash. Read More

Tech Moves: Expedia names CFO; former Tune CEO leaves Roku; Amazon and Microsoft departures

Expedia Group named Derek Andersen as its new CFO; Peter Hamilton left Roku for an upcoming CEO role; and more tech moves. Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet adds to C-suite; Armoire gets ML lead; past Microsoft director launches startup

Software giant Smartsheet makes four C-suite changes, all with ties to its CEO, while Armoire names a machine learning lead, plus other tech moves. Read More

Layoffs at PNNL impact 68 employees at national lab sites across Pacific Northwest

Battelle stated that “due to unforeseen business circumstances” the company was not able to provide 60-days notices to impacted workers. Read More

Tech Moves: PNNL names director; MicroVision taps CEO; PNW PR vet launches new firm; and more

— Deborah (Deb) Gracio is taking over next month as director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Gracio has been… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 taps new CISO; Auger gets a chief AI scientist, WRF CEO retiring

— Christopher Burger is now chief information security officer for F5, a Seattle-based networking and security giant. Burger will lead… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon leaders depart; Zenoti adds CCO; Seattle U names business dean; and more

— Dr. Vin Gupta, chief medical officer for Amazon Pharmacy, has resigned after five years in his role. Gupta is… Read More

Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere

The Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at agencies in Washington state including the Pacific Northwest National… Read More

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Scientists turn to the cloud to streamline supercomputer calculations for chemistry

A team led by researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is finding new ways to accelerate the pace of… Read More

Tech Moves: Meta leader for Pacific NW steps down; Phase Genomics adds to C-suite

Paresh Rajwat this summer stepped down from his role as the Pacific Northwest head of office for Meta, which has… Read More

Can AI boost clean energy efforts? Tech and policy leaders discuss solutions in Seattle

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Maria Cantwell met in Seattle on Friday with West Coast tech executives and… Read More

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Researchers take a freeze-frame reading of electrons energized in a stream of water

An international team of scientists has blazed a new trail for studying how atoms respond to radiation, by tracking the… Read More

Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they’ve discovered a way to reduce… Read More

Portrait of Court Corley, chief scientist for AI at PNNL

Pacific Northwest National Lab’s chief scientist for AI finds links between tech and national security

Bringing artificial intelligence to bear on issues relating to nuclear weapons might sound like the stuff of a scary sci-fi… Read More

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Pacific NW National Lab opens AI center to concentrate on science, security, energy

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center… Read More

PNNL team removes heat source from transfer port

Zeno demonstrates an innovative type of radioisotope heat source for off-grid power

Zeno Power says it has successfully completed its first demonstration of a new type of radioisotope heat source that could… Read More

PNNL quantum researchers adjust dilution refrigerator

Tech leaders size up what it’ll take to turn Pacific Northwest into a ‘Quantum Valley’

California’s Silicon Valley may rule the roost for internet startups, and Kendall Square in the Boston area may set the… Read More

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Liftoff! Pacific Northwest National Lab’s microbe study could blaze a trail for future farmers on Mars

An experiment that’s on its way to the International Space Station focuses on a subject that’s as common as dirt,… Read More

Tech vet and physicist Christina Lomasney marries James Mattis, retired general and ex-defense chief

Christina Lomasney, a tech veteran and physicist who is now director of commercialization at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in… Read More

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory partners with U.S. Space Force to train cybersecurity workers

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is collaborating with the U.S. Space Force to address the gap in cybersecurity professionals working… Read More

‘It’s just astronomical’: Soaring fentanyl deaths help spur tech solutions for combating the opioid

Nationally, fentanyl-related overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45. The drug killed almost twice… Read More

IonQ teams up with Pacific Northwest National Lab on a new supply chain for quantum computing

Dare we say it? Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has teamed up with IonQ to come up with a method for… Read More

Climate funding: Amazon makes more investments; Alaska Airlines and Bill Gates-led effort back aviation startup

The investments keep rolling in for climate tech companies, and Pacific Northwest tech companies are writing many of the checks.… Read More

Bill Gates shares upbeat take on global climate talks; Washington’s Inslee pledges carbon cuts

As the global climate talks in Scotland enter their second week, Bill Gates on Monday shared his customarily upbeat assessment… Read More

How a national lab stokes the startup pipeline with ready-to-go innovations for commercializing

Entrepreneurs with a yen for creating a business but who come up short on an innovation are welcome to take… Read More

New interactive tool using satellites and AI creates more precise wildfire maps for public, firefighters

Anxiety-inducing images of skies hazy from wildfires and hillsides set ablaze are increasingly popping up on my Twitter feed and… Read More

How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

Carbon capture is a hot new area for innovation and investment, and Pacific Northwest researchers, companies, policymakers and individuals are… Read More

Pacific Northwest National Lab gets green light to design and build a $75M grid storage facility

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will begin designing and building a $75 million facility in Eastern Washington that will… Read More

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