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Alex Halverson

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 22, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)

    Microsoft’s Xbox layoffs hit hundreds in Washington state again - The Daily Chronicle (opens the original)

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    Microsoft is laying off about 300 Washington-based employees, among about 450 companywide, as part of ongoing efforts to reset its gaming division. The Redmond-based tech giant told employees Tuesday morning that it was cutting roles that would mostly fall under the Xbox banner. Across the company, 268 gaming employees were let go. The move comes two months after the company laid off 4,800 gaming and sales team employees companywide, including 605 in Washington. Microsoft has been trying to keep

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)

    More Amazon Prime customers may qualify for FTC settlement refunds - The Daily Chronicle (opens the original)

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    After doling out more than $845 million to former Amazon Prime customers, Amazon is expanding the qualifications needed for refunds stemming from its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. Three days into a trial last year, Amazon and the regulatory agency reached a settlement in which the e-commerce giant agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle claims it tricked customers into $139 Prime memberships. The settlement included a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion in refunds. In a Sept.

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Alex Halverson and Destiny Muller / The Seattle Times (TNS)

    Microsoft sets its own AI guardrails amid rising industry concerns - The Daily Chronicle (opens the original)

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    As frontier artificial intelligence labs once again caution about the speed of the technology’s development, Microsoft released a code of conduct for how it plans to clamp down on its own AI models. “At Microsoft AI, we begin with a simple premise: people matter more than AI,” the company said in a Monday blog post. Microsoft’s overall philosophy, dubbed Humanist AI, is essentially that AI should be subordinate to human users. The company said it will restrict its models from resisting or circum

  4. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)

    Amazon plans to shed another Seattle office next year, report shows - The Daily Chronicle (opens the original)

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    Amazon is reportedly dropping another office in South Lake Union as the company continues to trim its physical footprint. The Seattle-based tech giant will let its lease lapse in the 81,000-square-foot office building at 428 Westlake Ave. N., in the heart of Amazon's South Lake Union campus, according to a July report from brokerage Cushman & Wakefield. Amazon signed the lease in 2016 amid its rapid growth, snapping up midsize office buildings in South Lake Union and office towers in the Denny T

  5. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)

    Software maker Qualtrics cuts 117 jobs in Seattle - The Daily Chronicle (opens the original)

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    Qualtrics is laying off 117 employees in Seattle after it acquired a similar software company in a multibillion-dollar deal. Employees at the Seattle-based company, which specializes in software that tracks and analyzes customer and employee feedback data, were first notified on Aug. 19, according to a Wednesday state regulatory filing. Their separation date from the company is Oct. 18. The filing — a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification layoff notice — did not disclose the reason for t

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