GeekWire's Most-Read Stories of the Week

Catch up on the top tech stories from this past week. Here are the headlines that people have been reading on GeekWire. ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: GeekWire's Rooftop Summer Party + Mariners Day returns on Wednesday, September 11th: [Register today for Seattle's party of the summer.]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [Nordstrom closing corporate offices in Los Angeles and Chicago]( Nordstrom is closing two corporate offices and asking some employees to relocate to its Seattle headquarters, GeekWire has learned. [AWS exec explains how AI agents are driving a radical shift in the world of coding]( In an era where AI is reshaping industries at breakneck speed, Doug Seven finds himself at the forefront of a technology that’s changing the way developers approach their work. 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Join your community in Philly and virtually, Oct. 8-11, 2024.]( [Seattle biotech startup secures $11.2M to make drugs for ‘undruggable’ disease targets]( Talus Bioscience on Tuesday announced $11.2 million in venture capital funding to advance its drug discovery program for hard-to-treat diseases.   The Seattle biotech’s platform brings biochemical analysis into living cells, allowing researchers to see how drugs interact with small proteins that turn genes on and off. [Redfin layoffs impact real estate company’s brokerage business]( Redfin laid off employees on Wednesday, GeekWire has learned. [Amazon’s new Prime Video animated series will feature stories set in 15 video game worlds]( Amazon announced a new adult-animated anthology series coming to Prime Video with original stories set within the worlds of a number of popular video games. [Seattle startup Replenium accuses Albertsons of stealing trade secrets under guise of partnership]( A Seattle e-commerce tech startup says Albertsons Companies ended their three-year partnership and stole the trade secrets behind its automated grocery replenishment technology to create its own version instead. [Study shows how students and teachers are using AI for college essays, letters of recommendation]( A new study from Seattle-based education research organization foundry10 found that 30% of students and teachers surveyed are using AI to help with the college essay and letters of recommendation process. [Dropbox acquires Reclaim, a calendar app that uses ‘AI scheduling’ to boost productivity]( Reclaim.ai, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that uses AI to help companies prioritize tasks and coordinate schedules with a calendar app, has been acquired by file management giant Dropbox. [Pack Ventures raising $30M fund to back more startups with ties to University of Washington]( Pack Ventures, an emerging venture capital fund that invests in startups with key connections to the University of Washington, is gearing up to raise more money and make a bigger mark on the Seattle entrepreneurial ecosystem. [A new EV car-sharing program in Seattle aims to reach underserved communities with co-op model]( I parked my dirty old Honda at the grocery store around 2 p.m. [Expedia vet leads stealthy Madrona Venture Labs spinout building an AI agent for business travelers]( A group of longtime travel industry veterans are teaming up on a new Seattle-based startup called Otto that is developing an AI-powered virtual assistant for business travel booking. [Gaming startup Mudstack raises $4M from top VCs, taps industry vet James Gwertzman as CEO]( Mudstack is adding a veteran Seattle-based gaming exec as its new leader and raising capital from top venture capitalists as it looks to supercharge its content management software built for game studios. [A year into Downtown Activation Plan, reviving Seattle relies on more than return of office workers]( City of Seattle officials said downtown is in better shape than it was a year ago but there is much more work to do — including but not limited to bringing more workers back to downtown offices. [Does ‘Carbon Sound’ have a ring to it? How Seattle area can become the Silicon Valley of climate tech]( Silicon Valley is recognized globally as *the* tech hub and is so iconic that the region itself essentially co-starred in an eponymously named, self-mocking comedy. 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