AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoData Center Expansion: Amazon Web Services confirmed it plans a West Richland campus with up to 21 data-center buildings after acquiring nearly 1,000 acres for $264 million. The first phase calls for three buildings; the project still needs city review and an environmental assessment. AI in Seattle: A 35-person AWS team called Velocity Labs, mostly based in Seattle, built and released an open-source AI model in less than a week. Amazon says AI agents now write much of the code its developers once produced themselves. Privacy and Policing: A University of Washington report says federal immigration agents have used Washington driver records accessed through a law-enforcement network to help make hundreds of arrests. Researchers say the practice continues statewide. Dark School Commutes: UW researchers warn that permanent daylight saving time would add an estimated 2.14 billion dark-morning school commutes annually across the U.S. The study’s senior author says the change would shift an hour of daylight from mornings to evenings.
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