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The Daily Herald
Snohomish County PUD will hold a ribbon-cutting September 19 for its $2.5 million community solar facility at Walter E. Hall Park on Casino Road in south Everett, largely paid for by state grants. The array produces about 400,000 kilowatt hours a year and has operated since December 2024; power-sale revenue, about $40,000 so far, goes to the PUD's Community Energy Fund for bill assistance.
Everett Post
Greater Everett Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Poischbeg reports that aerospace and defense companies at the Farnborough Air Show stressed human workers stay essential as AI spreads through aviation. The piece cites a Gallup poll finding 47 percent of adults aged 18 to 29 believe AI does more harm than good, up from 36 percent in 2025, and points to training programs at Paine Field, AM-TEC, and WSU Everett.
Boro Software
Everett-based Boro Software shipped Shopboard, a job tracker for small machine shops: operators log Start and Done on a floor tablet, and the office gets a live board, a digital traveler per job, and reports on late jobs and actual costs. The company credits agentic development for the delivery speed and is recruiting a small group of founding shops to run it on live work at discounted pricing.
Boro Software
Boro Software's post-mortem on porting freediag, roughly 30,000 lines of C, to Rust in a week with Claude Code agents on a 20x Max plan: the Rust build was validated against the C executable's replay harnesses rather than real cars, and the ported source is public under the original license.
Boro Software
Everett's Boro Software tunes its Claude Code agent workflow on freediag, an open-source OBD-II diagnostics tool in aging C: tickets get labeled by difficulty and model, weaker models' work is adversarially reviewed by stronger ones, and concurrent agents are capped at 4 to 6 to control cost.
Boro Software
Everett's Boro Software argues AI magnifies both good and bad development practice while human decision-making stays the bottleneck: workers hit cognitive limits faster in AI-assisted workflows, and whether that ends in burnout depends on management giving them room to think.
425 Business
Everett-based Helion raised a $465 million Series G round led by Thrive Capital, bringing total invested capital to $1.5 billion at a $15.5 billion valuation. The money goes to commercial deployment and manufacturing capacity as the company builds its first fusion power plant, Orion, in Malaga in Central Washington, targeted for 2028.
Lynnwood Times
Everett-based Zap Energy named Zabrina Johal, formerly of AtkinsRéalis and General Atomics, its CEO as the company combines near-term compact modular fission with its long-term fusion work. Cofounder Benj Conway moves to President.