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Hey, good morning. I'm Patricia Murphy. It's Thursday. This is Seattle now. Layoffs have sent a shockwave through the tech sector.

Thousands of workers around Puget Sound are suddenly or soon to be out of work.

Puget Sound Business Journal Tech reporter Rick Morgan is here to talk about what's next for

laid off workers.

But first, let's get you caught up.

WashDot crews have restored the sections of Highway 2 that washed out in December's historic floods.

US2 at Tumwater Canyon near Leavenworth reopened to two-way traffic this week,

restoring access across Stevens Pass.

It had been closed since mid-December.

More permanent repairs will be completed this summer.

State lawmakers are looking to add mental health safeguards to AI chatbots.

Bills in the House and Senate would require chatbots to notify users.

They're interacting with AI and not a human at the beginning of the interaction and every three hours.

It would also require chatbot

operators to disclose that AI is not a health care provider and create protocols for detecting

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