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4.7 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Pressure builds against Microsoft's ties with Israel, WA leaders say health insurance costs will surge next year, and Paul Allen's estate promises $500 million in science grants.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Monica Nicholsberg.
0:02.0	And I'm Joshua McNichols.
0:03.8	We host KUOW's Economy Podcast, Booming.
0:06.7	The world's biggest video game companies are going all in on generative AI.
0:11.9	And that's sending ripples through Seattle's vibrant gaming community.
0:16.0	On one side, indie developers who believe video games are a human art form. On the other, big companies looking to make games cheaper and faster to produce.
0:25.4	Listen to Booming on the K-U-O-W app or wherever you listen.
0:30.1	Hi, I'm Joshua McNichols, host of KOWW's podcast, Booming.
0:34.6	Join me and The Big Dig podcast for a conversation about the decisions shaping
0:39.5	our highways from removing the Alaskan wave iDuct to the future of I-5 and Highway 99.
0:45.4	That's Monday, October 27th at 7 p.m. at the Central Library in downtown Seattle.
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0:54.8	See you there.
0:55.7	KUOW live events are sponsored by Finney Rich Painting.
1:02.8	Good afternoon.
1:04.4	From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now.
1:07.7	I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.
1:12.6	It's Wednesday, August 27.
1:20.5	The pressure's on at Microsoft. The company's responding to activists and journalists over how its technology is being used by the Israeli military. Monica Nicholsberg has the latest.
1:26.3	Speaking from an office that hours earlier had been occupied by protesters,
1:30.3	Microsoft President Brad Smith addressed a report claiming the company's tools are being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians.
1:36.9	Smith took issue with some of what the Guardian had learned, but...
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