Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 2, 2023 – GeekWire

A controversial capital gains tax was recently ruled constitutional by the Washington state Supreme Court. … Read More

A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to help companies crank out monotonous tasks amid a lingering labor shortage. … Read More

Tech layoffs and hiring freezes continue to impact the commercial real estate market in and around Seattle, according to a new report from Kidder Mathews. … Read More

AI-powered chatbots are already changing how professors teach, said University of Washington educators during a panel discussion Wednesday. … Read More

For many travelers, technology long ago supplanted travel agents for the basic booking of flights, hotels, and excursions. … Read More

Benji Barash and Yves Albers-Schoenberg experienced the challenges of robotics development while working on Amazon’s ambitious drone project. … Read More

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. … Read More

The Seattle region’s impressive mix of doers and builders is the focus of a new ad campaign from Greater Seattle Partners, the public-private sector initiative that seeks to attract investment, companies and quality jobs to the area. … Read More

Longtime Seattle-area tech mainstay Minh Le has joined Stifel Bank as managing director, following a 14-year career with Silicon Valley Bank. … Read More

Climate tech startup Group14 is building a factory that it says will be the world’s largest producer of advanced silicon battery material — an ingredient that makes conventional lithium ion batteries more powerful and faster charging. … Read More