Lisa Stiffler

Amazon's carbon footprint jumped 16% last year after several years of little or no increase. The company emitted nearly 80.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2025.

— has joined Amazon Music as vice president of product and tech for the streaming service. He spent nearly 19 years at Google, most recently as senior director of engineering leading YouTube Music and Podcasts.

As AI data centers break climate goals, two fusion startups are taking wild detours—including a surprise miniature reactor and a shift to fission—to power the tech boom.

Amazon has cut a total of 57 jobs in Washington state across various teams, including roles at the director and senior manager levels, according to a filing made public Monday morning.

The University of Washington's CoMotion program announced 10 startups that secured UW-licensed intellectual property over the past year. Eight are in healthcare, spanning diagnostic tools, medical devices and new therapeutics. The other two focus on K-12 education or climate change.

— , a former executive at Amazon, Microsoft and Google, has joined Dropbox as the company's first chief product officer.

Microsoft has just four more years to reach its ambitious goal of removing more planet-warming carbon that it produces.

British Columbia-based General Fusion on Friday completed its deal to become the first publicly traded fusion stock.

— Rina Hahn has left Seattle's Remitly as chief marketing officer. Hahn joined the remittance company in 2018 as director of digital marketing and rose to CMO after four years.

General Fusion's stock is trading up after it became the first fusion energy company to go public on a major exchange, debuting Monday on Nasdaq.