Inside a Microsoft alumni reunion in Redmond | Meet Seattle’s 'Climate Papa'

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Microsoft will turn 50 in less than two years, and attendees spanned many of the company’s decades. Above, Ali Spain, the Microsoft Alumni Network’s outgoing executive director, opens the conference in Redmond on Thursday morning. [Check out highlights from the event](. “You should be careful about housing.” That’s what Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said during a brief encounter with Sam Altman, warning the OpenAI CEO to tread lightly when it comes to infusing artificial intelligence into real estate search. [Read more.]( Microsoft explored sale of Bing to Apple: Bloomberg reported that the tech giants discussed the idea, to replace Google as the default search engine on iPhones and other devices. [Read more.]( Meet Seattle’s “Climate Papa”: Ben Eidelson (left, with his wife, Anna Shwab Eidelson, and their 5 1/2 -year-old daughter and 2 1/2 year-old-son) was haunted by the threat of global warming, and the vision of his young daughter growing into a teen who would ask him what he had done to combat the climate crisis. - The engineer quit his tech job, purchased a web domain, began investing in and advising climate tech startups, and published a step-by-step guide encouraging other software engineers to seek out climate endeavors that needed their skills. - In June, he launched the Climate Papa podcast. Now he’s raising money for Stepchange, a climate tech venture fund. [Read more.]( Get an AI reality check on “The Creator”: How close does the latest robo-doomsday movie come to the truth about AI’s promise and peril? GeekWire assembled a panel of critics to assess the film’s believability and entertainment level. 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