AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoSeattle 911 AI: A report says Seattle Fire ignored 2019 warnings about bias and transparency before deploying AI to help triage medical calls. Since 2023, the system has helped route some callers to a nurse line instead of sending an ambulance. Washington Data Centers: Amazon plans up to 21 data centers on land it bought for $264 million in West Richland, as residents raise concerns about the project. AI and Climate: Seattle’s Ai2 received $5 million from Google to develop its AI weather model into a tool for projecting climate change. Hanford Cleanup: The Energy Department has begun site work on a new pretreatment system designed to handle 3.6 million gallons of tank waste annually—triple current capacity—and remove more than 99.9% of radioactivity. Seattle Biotech: Adaptive Biotechnologies reported a profitable third quarter, with clonoSEQ cancer tests up 46% year over year. Cancer Research: Fred Hutch researchers identified a type of transfer RNA that may shape aggressive prostate cancer cells and their response to treatment, pointing to possible ways to counter drug resistance.
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