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As NFL franchise valuations surge—highlighted by the Seattle Seahawks' recent $9.6 billion sale to a group led by Vinod Khosla—the Green Bay Packers' unique community-owned structure is being spotlighted as an alternative to billionaire and private-equity control. The Packers remain the NFL's only publicly owned team, with no single owner able to sell the franchise for personal profit.
Seattle Mountain Rescue volunteers have begun field-testing powered hip-and-leg exoskeletons to see if the devices improve speed and endurance during search operations. Similar wearable exoskeletons are already used by IKEA, Ford, Boeing and Mazda Toyota on assembly lines, by Finnish rescue and firefighting crews under the ExoPELA project, and by Ukrainian soldiers carrying artillery shells, according to Colonel Vitalii Serdiuk.
Powered exoskeletons that boost lower-body strength are now being tested by Seattle Mountain Rescue volunteers and have been deployed by companies like IKEA, Ford, Boeing and Mazda Toyota on factory floors. Finland's ExoPELA project found the devices reduced muscle strain for firefighters, while Ukraine's military says soldiers using Hypershell exoskeletons to carry artillery shells report less fatigue and longer sustained combat effectiveness, according to Colonel Vitalii Serdiuk.
A 13-year-old fan named Abby received a one-of-one gold trading card of Jimothy, a viral Seattle raccoon, during a Mariners promotional giveaway of 20,000 cards. After fans and even a team staffer tried to buy it on the spot, her family instead listed it on eBay, where it drew over 100 bids and sold for $20,100.
A study found Seattle hosts roughly nine times more coyotes per area than nearby wild lands in Washington state. Researchers attribute the surge to the abundance of easy food sources in urban environments, which reduces the need for coyotes to hunt as extensively as their rural counterparts.
A costumed appearance by a Doctor Doom impersonator at a Seattle event highlighted support for the city's camera surveillance systems. The moment drew attention to the fact that Flock Safety is far from the only company supplying automated license-plate readers and camera networks to police departments and neighborhoods.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their journalism was used without permission to train AI models and is often reproduced verbatim in chatbot responses. Microsoft was named as a defendant because its Copilot tool relies on OpenAI's technology, and the outlets are seeking destruction of any copied works, datasets, and models built from them.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The suit claims these tools consume original reporting and generate imitative outputs that could financially undermine the news organizations that created the source material.
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a joint lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies scraped their copyrighted articles, bypassing paywalls, to train generative AI models. The publishers claim this practice has hurt their revenue by diverting readers to AI-generated summaries and has produced false information wrongly attributed to their outlets.