Lisa Stiffler
Writer at GeekWire
Loves journalism -- the interviews, telling stories, playing with words, crunching data -- and is currently writing for GeekWire and others.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
With $4.5 million in fresh funding, Seattle-area startup Potato is sprouting big plans to disrupt scientific research with a fully automated experimental process. The 2-year-old company has released a platform that serves as an AI research assistant to help scientists generate hypotheses, create optimized protocols for conducting research, aid in writing papers for publication, and offer critiques of journal articles.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
Yes, Melinda French Gates has an estimated net worth of nearly $30 billion, runs an organization with ambitious goals to improve the lives of women globally, and formerly co-led the world’s largest private philanthropy — the Gates Foundation — with her now ex-husband Bill Gates. And no, most of our lives look almost nothing like hers at first glance.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
Microsoft and CO280, a Vancouver, B.C.-based startup, today announced a 12-year deal to capture and store the carbon that’s emitted from a U.S. pulp and paper mill. The tech company will pay for the removal of 3.685 million metric tons of carbon, marking one of the largest deals of its kind. Microsoft set a goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, but its emissions keep rising, driven by the growing use of artificial intelligence and tools such as ChatGPT.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
Seattle startup Avalanche Energy plans to open a first-of-its-kind facility for commercial-scale testing of radioactive fusion technologies in Eastern Washington. The envisioned center, called FusionWERX, is a public-private partnership offering shared resources to universities, companies, and government labs in an effort to support fusion power producers and the sector’s supply chain.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
— Rathi Murthy, former chief technology officer for Expedia, is now CTO for Varo Bank, a digital financial institution based in San Francisco. Murthy was previously a CTO at Verizon Media, and held executive roles at Gap, American Express, eBay, and Yahoo.
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Suppliers for major brands like including Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google are still relying heavily on fossil fuels, Greenpeace finds https://t.co/9CoX2v3kkS via @business
I got into journalism because of NPR (still coming for you Terry Gross), so I'm always thrilled to do a radio spot -- and this one's on my favorite topic! Thanks @KUOW. https://t.co/w3efHERoSW @Breakthrough #BESummit2022 @geekwire
Still processing the fire hose of amazing innovation and information shared at the @Breakthrough Energy Summit, still split between hopeful and anxious. Which is probably about right. #BESummit2022 https://t.co/Rvvip8Cnc5 via @GeekWire