5+ hour, 39+ min ago  (789+ words) Microsoft's support of Washington's journalism fellowship program, which I wrote about last week, is welcome but raises delicate questions. I posed a few of them to Teresa Hutson, corporate vice president and general counsel of Microsoft's Technology and Services Group....

5+ hour, 39+ min ago  (789+ words) Microsoft's support of Washington's journalism fellowship program, which I wrote about last week, is welcome but raises delicate questions. I posed a few of them to Teresa Hutson, corporate vice president and general counsel of Microsoft's Technology and Services Group....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (316+ words) The digital economy has led to a U. S. trade surplus in services on the order of around 1% of gross domestic product. Yet recent advances in artificial intelligence have exposed new vulnerabilities that place every cyber system at risk of disruption. This…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (278+ words) Large data centers like this Microsoft plant in Quincy need massive amounts of electricity, which is placing an increasing burden on the Northwest's power grid. For a bunch of unremarkable warehouses, they're generating a lot of controversy. Data centers " low-slung…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (610+ words) Power lines seen in the Sodo area in Seattle in January 2025. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times) The data center boom fueling artificial intelligence's rise could be coming to Seattle proper, which the city utility says could make its job of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (259+ words) Champions of progress will reassure us that none of this is inevitable, that it's in our power to make the tool work for us in benign ways. But look at the track record of major corporations when it comes to…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (647+ words) But the cloud is not weightless at all. Behind every digital activity lies a vast physical infrastructure of data centers, servers, cables and energy networks that run nonstop. These facilities power the modern internet, and they consume enormous amounts of…...

3+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (615+ words) RICHLAND " The national laboratory in Richland is being tapped to work on three key research challenges for the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, an ambitious project to dramatically increase the pace of scientific discovery, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced last Tuesday....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (299+ words) Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U. S. and other countries become "increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic," a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its "Doomsday Clock" to 85 seconds till midnight. The Bulletin…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (610+ words) Washington state lawmakers are considering stronger regulations on artificial intelligence companion chatbots. This comes amid growing concern over the technology's impact on young peoples' mental health. State Sen. Lisa Wellman, a Bellevue Democrat and the sponsor of the Senate bill,…...