Hi, it's Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop here sharing something just a little bit different.

My colleague and fellow co-founder, John Cook, and I have been talking for a while about taking a new approach to writing columns using artificial intelligence.

And the idea is to sit down the two of us and discuss a topic casually and really speak with the purpose of informing

an AI chatbot to take what we talk about and turn it into a column. So we tried that this week

with a piece and just wanted to share the raw audio with you here. It's a little bit rough.

You'll hear some salty language

and some things that we did not end up

including in the final column,

but we ended up turning this audio

over to a few different chatbots.

And if you go to the link in the show notes,

you can see essentially what this turned into on Geekwire. So here it is our very

raw conversation about the checkered history of Seattle hardware and startups and all

the struggles they've had over the years tied to a couple of recent news events. Okay. So the

stories that we're focusing on today are the restructuring of

Glowforge, and we'll provide this to the AI, the restructuring of Glowforge and the

potential closure of rad power bikes. And the common thread that these two have is that they're

consumer-oriented hardware companies based in Seattle

that have seen different degrees of success.

You know, rad.

Rad, it's like it's, it's kind of like the Tesla of e-bikes.

But I got one word for you to start this out, John.

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