Through this agreement, KIA expects to secure a gateway for its portfolio companies to conduct real-world demonstration projects in the United States. The Oregon UAS Accelerator is an accelerator specializing in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), robotics, autonomous systems, and dual-use technologies, based in Pendleton. Previously, it also signed a business agreement with the Oregon Military Department, connecting defense training and anti-drone demonstration needs with startups. Additionally, the accelerator operates U.S. government non-dilutive R&D funding support programs such as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

“Our collaboration with the Oregon UAS Accelerator, which has a strong presence in the U.S. defense and public sectors, will serve as the most reliable milestone for our K-defense and drone startups to break into one of the world’s most challenging markets,” said Baek Yeo-hyun, CEO of KIA. “By combining the proven venture development infrastructure of Korea Investment & Securities Group, we will provide steadfast support so that domestic companies with unique technological capabilities can confidently prove themselves on the global stage and achieve meaningful business results.”

NOTE: We briefly interrupt this blog post to remind you that Oregon UAS Accelerator applications for the next cohort are due July 19, 2026.

For more information, see “Korea Investment Accelerator Signs MOU with Oregon UAS Accelerator in the U.S.“

That knowledge is enormous. And it’s also fragile. It mostly lives in one veteran’s head. And when that person retires, it walks out the door with them. Until now. Meet Swarf, an AI assistant for CNC machinists and programmers

Swarf can read your drawings, photos, and spec sheets. It’ll simulate G-code with virtual material removal so you can watch the cut — and this is key — before you run it on a real machine. It’ll generate G-code from a 3D model with your shop’s context baked in. And when something goes sideways at the tool, it’ll help you troubleshoot the cutting problem instead of leaving you to eyeball it alone.

Swarf is the brainchild of Riley Hutchinson, a born-and-raised Oregonian working out of the southeast corner of Gresham. Before this, he spent roughly a dozen years as a CNC programmer and technical lead at Boeing Portland — the company’s largest fabrication site — before leaving to build something of his own.

Swarf is in beta right now, and the team is actively looking for shops to partner with and help shape where it goes next. If you’re running a shop — or programming for one — and that knowledge-transfer problem keeps you up at night, then this one is definitely worth a look.

For more information, visit swarf.app.

Columbia Sportswear CEO Boyle on Blazers, taxes, Portland – Portland Business Journal

What can Oregon do to become more business-friendly? You can’t rely on the serendipitous nature of Nike and Columbia and other businesses that were grown here. You can’t rely on lightning strikes that will save the state. You need to have people that are creating wealth and have created wealth that come here because it’s a great place to live and also stay here.

(2013) What a difference a year makes: Simple recounts its first year with customers on the platform – Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community

Portland-based Simple has a very lofty goal: to build a better banking experience. Or to be more blunt: to build a bank that doesn’t suck. And after a year with customers using the platform, Simple appears well on their way to satisfying that goal.

‘I wouldn’t call it panic’: Industry quails at Hochul’s data center pause – POLITICO

The executive order that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Tuesday marks the first state-level pause on data center construction, following dozens of municipalities in red and blue states that have passed similar moratoriums. But industry supporters and detractors alike say it’s unlikely to be the last, amid poll numbers showing growing public skepticism toward AI.

26 Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical and parental leave

As a result, people on protected medical or family leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs, the lawsuit says. Each of the 26 anonymous employees in the lawsuit took protected leave and requested or received a reasonable accommodation for disability. Though they have been notified of their layoffs, all 26 remain employed by Meta, with separations set to begin July 22.

New social media curfews and crackdown on addictive features to better protect 16- and 17-year-olds online

Default overnight curfews from midnight to 6am will be switched on for 16 and 17-year-olds on social media apps, as the government takes further action to back parents and protect the next generation online.

Intel first to use ASML High NA EUV in mass chip production

Intel took delivery of its first High NA machine in 2024, installing it at the Hillsboro, Oregon campus where the company conducts its advanced process research. Intel Foundry was also the first company to install and accept the second-generation system, the TWINSCAN EXE:5200B, which improves on the original EXE:5000 with higher output, better overlay accuracy, and an upgraded light source, the company said.

Inside Anthropic’s state-by-state plan to ratchet up AI rules – POLITICO

The approach stands in stark contrast to the one favored by the company’s archrival, OpenAI, which has pushed state lawmakers toward common ground on regulating the breakthrough technology.

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

After I mentioned a Jurassic Park anecdote the other day, I watched the movie again. I must have seen it at least ten times now. This time, I researched every computer/software I spotted.

NBA Commissioner Says Blazers Arena Deal ‘Seems to Have Gone Off Track’

“I spent time with Tom and his partners here in Las Vegas,” Silver said, “and what we are most focused on right now, the league office, is the deal that we discussed when we were in Portland in March. I was hoping more progress would’ve been made by now on that agreement, and it seems to have gone off track in various ways. I have a colleague who’s day-to-day on it, but we are working with both sides to ensure that the Trail Blazers can have a long-term future in Portland. But there are several open issues that still need to be resolved.”

The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026

Our belief is simple: the path forward is competition and interoperability. We believe in a world of many models, standard ways to plug them together, and the freedom to walk away from any vendor at any time. Open has a record here. It grew the pie and let more people own a slice of it.

How to be grateful to someone – even when you really don’t want to

I’ve come to devote much of my research as a philosopher to studying how the way that we interpret each other as people shapes our relationships. That work has helped me to understand why I struggled to be grateful – and taught me a little bit about how to do better.

What is a Forward-Deployed Engineer (and Why Should You Care)? — Chris Neumann

Generally speaking, sending highly-specialized engineers from HQ into customer environments isn’t an optimal use of a company’s resources. Notwithstanding brief trips into the field to get “real-world experience”, product engineers are almost always more valuable working on the product than they are deploying and/or customizing it. That’s why the vast majority of technology companies build separate organizations (staffed with less expensive hires) for field engineering tasks.

Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure

All told, fintech startups raised $28.6 billion globally in the first half of 2026, a 22.7% increase from the first half of 2025, but down 17.3% compared to the $34.6 billion raised in the second half of last year. (It’s important to note that H2 2025 marked the strongest six-month funding period for fintech startups since the second half of 2022.)

You just hired a million bad employees. – by George Sivulka

We were told to sell pickaxes during a gold rush, and we built infrastructure. We were told to sell “Service-as-a-Software,” and we built neofirms. We have enough infrastructure. We have enough services. Now the work is making the trains run on time. It’s time to survey the enterprise: to find the 100X tokens, record the loops that work, and direct intelligence that is being massively wasted.

Product Market Fit is Hard to Find, but False PMF is Even More Painful | by Hunter Walk | Jul, 2026 | Medium

Still, as I read it, the sadist in me wanted to push the bar even higher and talk a bit about false PMF, which can sometimes be an even worse situation than no PMF (because you’re ramping up spend and activity, essentially running, with increasing speed, in a straight line towards a cliff.

I love LLMs, I hate hype | the singularity is nearer

What I don’t like is two things. One, this constant bullshit about some window closing, or the perpetual underclass, or falling hopelessly behind. This is negative valence hype, not only is it not true, it’s mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself and move to shitty San Francisco where everything really does suck like how these people claim. And two, this strawman jump from, oh hey, it’s a fancy autocomplete, smart compiler, better search engine, to it’s gonna like own the whole light cone bro like if you aren’t in SF and at the right parties there’s gonna be like a flash of light in the sky one day and you’re not even gonna know what happened but everything just Changed.

Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone

The company’s approach could address one of the central constraints facing Apple’s AI strategy. The most capable models typically require too much memory and processing power to run on a smartphone.

Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer | TechCrunch

“I think of it like…any other resource,” Mosseri said. “I have to decide how to deploy capacity to my different teams because I have a limited number of GPUs and CPUs and storage and RAM etc. I have to decide how to deploy OpEx for labeling budgets across my teams. I have to decide how to deploy payroll for headcount across my teams.”

The three doors | Vibes DIY Blog

We have been building a lot of event “picker” apps lately — one per conference or festival, each one a schedule you can heart sessions in, see what your friends are going to, and subscribe to as a live calendar. Pickathon first, then the same skin stamped onto DEF CON 34, JuliaCon, EuroSciPy, State of the Map, the Oregon Country Fair, IETF 126. The social machinery ports verbatim every time. The only real work in a new one is the feed adapter: teach the app to read this event’s schedule.

AI in the A.M. | Coffee at Instrument · Luma

We’re bringing AI in the AM to Instrument’s new space, with Deadstock running the espresso cart for the morning. ​Come for the usual: good conversation, no agenda, people who actually build and use this stuff. Stay because you’ve been curious what Instrument’s new space looks like and this is your excuse to see it.

OEN Angel Oregon Fall Cohort 2026

OEN’s Angel Oregon ‘Capital & Fundraising Literacy’ programs are designed specifically for early-stage founders across Oregon and SW Washington. Whether you’re building a technology company, consumer product brand, or life or bio science venture, our goal is to help you better understand the fundraising landscape while building the skills and confidence you’ll need when the time is right.

Powered by Ingenuity: NSBE PDX Entrepreneurship GBM Social Mixer Tickets, Wednesday, August 5  •  5 PM – 8 PM | Eventbrite

This is a space for Black and Brown engineers, entrepreneurs, and community members to connect, surface who in our community is already building something — and what they need to succeed.

The remix is the on-ramp | Vibes DIY Blog

It began with a bug fix. Dr. Dea’s Drum Machine — a classic 16-step sequencer with synthesized kicks, snares, and cowbells — had two copies of its playback scheduler fighting over the same timer. We collapsed them into one, gave it a four-on-the-floor default so PLAY makes a sound immediately, and shipped it. That’s maintenance.

MenuMingle brings video to restaurant menus in Portland – Portland Business Journal

MenuMingle isn’t trying to replace Toast, Square, DoorDash, Resy or OpenTable. It is designed to help the guest decide and then route the guest into the systems the restaurant already uses. Its focus is the menu and what the menu and menu engagement can tell the operator. Operators can control what and when people see items and communicate prep time expectations.

Deschutes Tech Guild – July Meetup, Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

How self-sufficient can you be in solving a programming challenge? What if you had to not only build the solution yourself, but also the language in which that solution was written? Can you implement that language in itself? This talk explores my adventures in seeking this “visceral sense of self-sufficiency” and the side-quests along the way. We’ll hit the technical highlights of how I built my own interpreter and compiler, including some fun extras like supporting first class continuations and demonstrating a self-perpetuating compiler backdoor. We’ll trace the lineage of thinkers this project draws on back through Graham, Sussman, McCarthy, and Church, among others. And finally, we’ll try to square my subjective experience of searching for self-sufficiency yet finding mostly gratitude for all the things I did not build.

Ship it dark: the scariest change is the smallest line you write | Vibes DIY Blog

When social-graph notifications went live on Vibes DIY — someone asks to follow you and your phone buzzes; a new follower shows up in your notifications and the weekly digest — the pull request that actually turned the feature on was the smallest one in the whole effort. Around ninety lines: one helper and two call sites. The PR that sounds the scariest, the one that takes a dormant feature and makes it fire for real, was the least risky line anyone wrote.

(2015) Did AWS Device Farm sound familiar? That’s because Amazon acquired Portland startup AppThwack to build it – Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and community

Last week, the Web was all abuzz with this nifty new mobile testing environment from Amazon called AWS Device Farm. Folks were waxing philosophic about the magic of being able to test their mobile apps on real physical devices. And we, here in Portland, were sort of scratching our heads. Wasn’t this what AppThwack does? Well, yes. And yes. You see AWS Device Farm is AppThwack.

Hyperscale AI data centers paused in New York: executive order – Fast Company

On Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order that would halt construction permits for hyperscale data centers, multiple media outlets reported. According to the New York Times, the order would apply to “so-called hyperscale” data centers, any locations that use at least 50 megawatts of power to function.

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models – Ars Technica

From these conversations, we learned that while LLMs-as-a-product started with an interface (chat) and then sought a use case, the big players in world models right now are arguably working in the other direction: They’re starting with specific use cases and applications in robotics, research, and asset generation, but it’s unclear exactly how the interfaces, systems, and tools will ultimately look.

Nearly 6 in 10 young women get health, wellness info from influencers | Pew Research Center

This is especially true for young women: 57% of women ages 18 to 29 say they ever get health and wellness information from influencers. That is 10 percentage points higher than the share of young men, according to a fall 2025 Pew Research Center survey.

Punch Yourself in the Face with Reality | Adi

I know you want to use AI as an escape. It is so tempting. You get to sit in your bubble and imagine everything and see it come to life and your agent buddy will keep cheering you on while you get nothing done with your life. And I think that’s the biggest danger of AI. You convince yourself that you are doing something useful when you are not.

The PacWest Center Pine Tree Has Died at Age 42

The quirky fixture of the Portland skyline was removed for safety reasons, according to Wyatt Cerny, vice president of real estate at Fountainhead Development, the Fairbanks, Alaska–based company that has owned PacWest Center since October 2025. An exact cause of death was not given, but an arborist evaluated the pine and determined it was “in declining health and no longer viable,” Cerny said.

Portland’s Voodoo Doughnut Opens in NYC

Expansion began locally in 2008, and Voodoo migrated out of state, first to Colorado, five years later. In 2017, the private equity firm Fundamental Capital took a majority stake, and expansion ratcheted up along with more corporate sensibilities. “I like to think when we open a new Voodoo in a new city, we bring a little bit of that old-school Portland with us but allow the city to shape us, too,” Waterman says. (In its early days, the shop hosted competitions to see who could stack the most doughnuts on his, uh, member. The winner got $50 and a cream-filled Cock ‘n’ Balls doughnut — almost certainly making it the only Fundamental holding that once hosted dick-measuring contests.)

Why It’s So Hard For Us to See Our Own Problem Habits | by Markham Heid | The Escape | Jul, 2026 | Medium

Poor performers in many social and intellectual domains seem largely unaware of just how deficient their expertise is. Top performers tend to underestimate their performances.

Fuji to Hood

Japanese-American craft beer, cider, sake, food, music, art, performance, and culture festival rotating biennially between Tokyo, Japan and Portland, Oregon

Portland Waterfront Park Design Competition

One of the most consequential civic projects this decade, it will activate the river’s edge and foster a ​‘toes in the water’ human connection as well as create new and inspiring views to the Park and the Willamette River. Improved physical connections to neighboring Downtown are expected along with advancing the Willamette’s ecological recovery and biodiversity.

The Most Human Technology Ever Made | Andreessen Horowitz

But I think the more interesting thing about AI is that it’s also the other kind of technology, the paintbrush kind, the kind that lets us express ourselves as humans. A few technologies in history have managed to be both: language, the printing press, and the steam engine are all tools that saved enormous labor and, almost as a side effect, expanded what a person could be. AI belongs to that small category. It makes making things feel more possible.

Inspire Vancouver Grants for Arts, Culture & Science | I’m Into This Place

Inspire Vancouver is poised to grant more than $6 million to arts, culture, heritage, and science programming and education. Where did this money come from, how are they distributing it, and how is this going to change the landscape for our community?

Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures

There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world, ranging from Argentina and Egypt to Japan and Zimbabwe, ought to pursue the same values as the Western world.

So Far, 2026 Is A Solid Year For Cybersecurity Startup Funding

Overall, the past few months have given cybersecurity startup investors and founders a case for optimism, but we aren’t seeing anything close resembling the hoopla and valuation escalation around foundational AI. Still, there are some encouraging signs. Exits are happening. Big rounds are getting done. And as AI agents continue to proliferate, it’s a given we’ll need more sophisticated security to monitor their activities.

Control the ideas, not the code – <antirez>

I have a doubt only regarding young programmers that don’t have enough experience, and can’t build a mental model. We don’t know, yet, if they will require or not to understand very well how a given piece of code works, but I believe they should learn how to write programs. Yet, I’m not sure checking the LLM output is the right thing they should do. It may be a lot more useful if they learn some programming language and implement a small interpreter, a small database, an hash table and so forth. Reviewing some Javascript stuff of some web site for a customer? Hell, no, don’t lose time with that shit.

What will be left for us to work on?

I made three arguments. First, the AI as Normal Technology framework is a correct and useful as a way to think about AI’s impacts, unless and until there is some future discontinuity such as through recursive self-improvement. Second, even though we should take recursive self-improvement seriously, there is no milestone that companies might achieve in the lab that will suddenly put us all out of work. Third and finally, jobs of the future will be radically different, and a lot of adaptation will be needed. I shared my thinking about what this might look like and ended with a vision of human/AI “co-superintelligence”.

Techworks on Tap 2026 » Techworks

Join us for Techworks on Tap 2026—a vibrant, purpose-driven happy hour happening Thursday, July 16 from 4:00–6:00 PM at Metropolitan Tavern in Portland. This isn’t just networking—it’s an engaging evening where tech leaders, founders, and innovators come together to share insights, ask bold questions, and explore real solutions to real challenges.

Oregon team of nearly 100 partners awarded NSF Regional Innovation Engine Award, set up to receive up to $160 million to grow state’s semiconductor industry | Newsroom | Oregon State University

Frontiers of Advanced Semiconductor Technology, known as FAST, an Oregon consortium that includes nearly 100 partners from across Oregon, will receive up to $160 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) during the next 10 years to grow the state’s semiconductor ecosystem. Oregon State University is the administrative home for FAST.

Head of Developer Growth Marketing Job at Depot Technologies, Inc. in Portland, Oregon | Silicon Florist

We’re looking for a Head of Developer Growth Marketing to own Depot’s developer acquisition engine and lead the marketing function through a period of rapid growth. You’ll run the demand program that drives trials and new customers, and work with a small, high-leverage team that performs like one several times its size. We’re scaling deliberately, not by brute-force headcount, because we expect everyone here to operate with serious leverage.

Verrus pursues ‘better data center’ in Salem, Oregon – Portland Business Journal

A Silicon Valley startup is proposing a data center project in Salem that it claims addresses the issues that are making such facilities increasingly unwelcome in communities.

This Houston geothermal startup is betting it can beat fossil fuels on cost – Fast Company

Hidden in a forest south of Bend, Oregon, a first-of-its-kind clean energy project is starting to take shape. Called Project Obsidian, the “superhot” geothermal power plant will deliver 24/7 electricity—and could soon compete on cost with fossil fuels as it pioneers new drilling technology.

BVC showcases innovative startups and connects entrepreneurs with investors and mentors. There are three categories of competition: Growth Tech Stage, Growth Industries Stage and Early Stage. Applicants must commit to participating in due diligence and presenting in Bend, Oregon for the conference.

Top 10 companies in each track receive one complimentary full conference ticket. Finalists receive a second complimentary full conference ticket. All non-finalist applicants may apply their non-refundable application fee toward an EDCO Member full conference ticket.

Applications will remain open until August 13, 2025. The event takes place October 15–16, 2026, in — you guessed it — Bend, Oregon.

For more information, visit Bend Venture Conference.

2026 Oregon Competitiveness Summit & Gubernatorial Candidate Forum – Portland Business Journal

Join Oregon Business & Industry and the Portland Business Journal for a gubernatorial candidate forum and business roundtable session that will address the major economic and competitiveness issues facing our business community.

Staying in the game – Toni.org

And the network keeps expanding as more apps launch. Thanks to our standard.site integration, Bluesky users can now read articles, blog posts, and newsletters from across Atmosphere-powered apps like Leaflet, Offprint, and pckt. We will add more ways to highlight and integrate new apps as they launch. A few that recently caught my eye: Skysquare, Gifthood, Roomy, Mu, co/core, and Standard Reader. Those are all from just the last few weeks, a snapshot of the breadth of innovation happening in the Atmosphere.

Own the Data Loop – by Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

We fully agree that data capitalism (or the data flywheel) is the correct approach, and we take that a layer deeper. While enterprise buyers should be protecting their operating intelligence from vendors, AI-native companies can build defensibility in the first place by embracing data capitalism. How? Not by avoiding frontier models, but by treating them as a rented engine underneath a data loop the company owns outright: one that compounds with every interaction and survives no matter which model wins this quarter.

PIGSquad’s Will Lewis | CreativeMornings/Portland, OR

Hi, I’m Will! I’m the Founder & President of the Portland Indie Game Squad, a 501(c)(3) community platform that helps folks of all demographics and skillsets make games together! I recently directed PIGCON, a Portland Indie Game Convention led by my vision of helping people share their creative projects and experiences in a safe, encouraging, collaborative environment accented by industry connections and learning activities.

Most regional startup ecosystems are built around programs. Buffalo is starting to be built around conditions.

The question is whether the ecosystem’s design is sophisticated enough to convert those assets into compounding outcomes, or whether it will optimize for the metrics that look good in press releases from Empire State Development. Based on the evidence of the past several years, the answer is trending in the right direction. The work isn’t done but then, it never is.

Oregon falls to 42nd in CNBC rankings of best places for business – Portland Business Journal

Oregon slid once again in CNBC’s rankings of America’s Top States for Business, landing at No. 42 on this year’s list. The state has plummeted 25 places from 17th since 2017.

Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. Threats – The New York Times

The statement, titled “We Must Act Now,” was signed by nearly 200 people, including 15 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of two of the leading A.I. labs, Open AI and Anthropic. Other notable signatories include Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic; Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google; and Vinod Khosla, a prominent venture capitalist.

Intel to invest €5bn in Irish plant as AI chip demand surges

Intel will invest €5bn to expand semiconductor manufacturing in Ireland as the US chipmaker seeks to grow production of processors used in AI systems, in a boost for Europe’s ambitions to build a stronger chip industry.

(2020) Travel back to the earliest days of Puppet with founder Luke Kanies

Origin stories. They tend to be the thing of myth. Glossed over and hazy. Usurped by unnecessarily hyperbolic embellishment. All to accentuate the drama. But leave it to Luke Kanies, founder of the company that would eventually become Portland’s Puppet, to take a different direction. To share a borderline gonzo origin story.

The ‘absolute magic’ of Morse code that still connects people globally

While the technology may seem rudimentary, the community behind it continues to find ways to connect with people, one series of dots and dashes at a time.

How to read more books

I want to explain to you here what I did to become a prolific reader, and what I learned in the process, so that, with a bit of effort, you can do it too. I promise, it will be worth it.

10 Startup Lies I Had to Unlearn the Hard Way | by Shray Talks | Jul, 2026 | Medium

What surprised me the most was that every costly mistake I made began as a perfectly reasonable assumption. I was not making irrational decisions. I was making decisions based on beliefs that felt true because they matched everything I had experienced before becoming a founder. The market slowly dismantled those beliefs one by one, and every lesson came with a cost.

Oregon business closures outnumber openings — and the gap is growing – oregonlive.com

Oregon businesses are shutting down faster than new ones are opening, according to the latest federal and state data. That’s a marked departure from historical trends and another signal of how the regional economy has faltered in the years after the pandemic.

The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab

Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us: individuals, organizations, humanity as a whole. These decisions require knowledge and judgment that people acquire through continuous contact with the work, increasingly done alongside AI. Shaping the goals of advanced intelligence is also a continuous process of feedback, learning, and realignment.

THE B2B STANDARD (v1) – by Rob Snyder

Here is the standard – what “good” looks like – for a sales-led B2B startup. The standard applies if you’re selling enterprise or SMB, AI or SaaS. It applies before you have hired in sales and after you’ve hired in sales. It applies from the moment you have an idea – not “when the product is ready.”

Memetic transfer

In the last two decades, the internet has amplified this transfer by a few orders of magnitude. This is how my uncle who can’t read and lives in a mud house knows about mr. beast. this is significant because this was only made possible by the memetic transfer across states, countries, languages and rivalries.

How Oregon’s state agencies adopted drones over the last decade • Oregon Capital Chronicle

From zero registered devices in 2013 to hundreds in the skies today, public agencies say drones save money and keep staff safe

Early signs suggest Oregon governor’s race is competitive – OPB

The poll of 600 Oregon voters in late June showed 48% favored Drazan, 44% favored Kotek and 6% were undecided, according to high-level results released by the campaign. The final 2% either refused to answer or indicated support for a third party.

D4D Hackathon lays foundation for defense AI ecosystem in APAC – The Korea Times

Supporty and Kestrel also received special awards linked to an Oregon-based UAS accelerator program in the United States. Organizations from Oregon are scheduled to visit Korea on July 14 to sign a memorandum of understanding, marking the first case in Korea in which a domestic hackathon resulted in a direct U.S. market entry.

I built a business I hated. Here’s how I didn’t see it coming.

Are you building something designed for who you actually are? Or are you building something designed to prove a point to people who may not even be paying attention anymore? What would you build if you stopped trying to win something and started asking what’s actually true about you?

Expensify Launches Consolidated Travel Billing to Simplify How Companies Pay for Business Travel

“Central billing cards have long been the default solution for companies that don’t want to distribute corporate cards to employees, but they often introduce new challenges around reconciliation, visibility, and administration,” said Ryan Schaffer, CFO of Expensify. “With consolidated travel billing, we’ve reimagined central billing for modern travel programs, giving companies the convenience of centralized payment with a much simpler management experience. For travel managers, it’s a better way to pay for business travel.”

StrateSea Technology: Building the Intelligent Brain for Autonomous Subsea Operations – Elevate Capital

StrateSea grew out of the intersection of my career in oceanography, AI, and building technology inside large organizations. I had spent years working with complex sensor data and later leading teams focused on making advanced analytics useful and accessible to real users.

Summer BBQ for SIM PDX Women: Connections Beyond the Workplace, Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 3:30 PM | Meetup

This family-friendly gathering is all about building meaningful connections, strengthening our community, and enjoying time together in a relaxed summer setting. Enjoy great food, refreshing drinks, lawn games, networking, and plenty of time to connect outside the office. This is a relaxed celebration of community, conversation, and the relationships that make this network so special.

8-6-26 Accelerate Biotech Happy Hour » Calagator: Portland’s Tech Calendar

Come meet fellow innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals, share ideas, and build relationships that help strengthen our growing bioscience ecosystem.

Table of Experts: Oregon businesses must embrace the AI revolution – Portland Business Journal

They spoke with Guillermo Christensen, K&L Gates National Security, AI and Cybersecurity partner and Co-Chair of the AI Solutions Group; Megan Notarte, Cloud Four partner/vice president and AI Portland cofounder; and Rep. Daniel Nguyen, chair of the Oregon House Committee on Economic Development, Small Business & Trade and Bambuza founder. Here are their insights