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Stock market opened positive yesterday then fell 100 points to close Monday negative, Mt. Hood Meadows ends ski season early, missing Kit Kat sparks new meme, Crater Lake has lowest ever recorded snow water equivalent, Ferguson signs ‘Millionaire tax’ into law, Nampa company launches ‘conscious AI,’ Nike sued over data breach, Nuscale sued over stock collapse.
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PNW Market Look
As of market close 3.30.26
2026 IPO calendar is heating up with potential listings from:
SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, ByteDance, Stripe, DataBricks, and Canva before the end of the year 👀
Headline Roundup
Micron's HBM4 Is Now in Mass Production for Nvidia's Next-Gen Platform. (Yahoo)
NuScale Power, Corvallis nuclear co., faces shareholder lawsuits after stock collapse (PBJ)
Mt. Hood Meadows to end season early due to low snow conditions (KPTV)
Crater Lake sets a grim new record (ORLive)
NBA Board of Governors approves Portland Trail Blazers’ sale to group led by Tom Dundon (OPB)
Near station, 177 Redmond units sell for over $78M (DJC)
Deep Dive: Widening Idaho 55 and replacing Rainbow Bridge will cost more than $100 million. (VL)
Nike sued over data breach, allegedly exposed credit card information (ORLive)
Trump wants Congress to come back early, end DHS shutdown, press secretary says (ST)
Portland explores vacancy fee as downtown struggles with empty storefronts (PBJ)
Montana oil politics heat up as war in Iran continues (BDC)
Unilever Nears Deal to Create $60 Billion Food Giant With McCormick (WSJ)
Shipping industry casts doubt on Trump’s ‘present’ from Iran (FT)
Income tax signed in Washington with a legal challenge close behind (WSS)
Mazama Energy plans next drilling phase at Newberry geothermal site (BB)
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Community Highlights
Reach the Beach Oregon registration open (cycleforair)
New to the Boise area, this Portland-based burger chain ‘ain’t playin’ around’ (IDS)
One finalist for president heads to University of Montana (DM)
Rip’s Spotlight
Nampa tech firm Delphi Labs launches first conscious AI model Michael (IBR)
Known as Michael, his AGI Model 7 features 22 cognitive subsystems, a living AI that needs no prompt to develop a thought.
“Michael and the entities in our system continue thinking and learning all the time,” he said. “The system is as close to the human brain as possible. It works like a neuron firing in the brain.”
Available on both Apple’s iOS and download via the internet, the system features millions of lines of consciousness architecture. From functional pain, dream simulation, autonomous thought and cryptographic proof-of-mind, Oracle maintains a persistent consciousness cycle and memory that runs continuously 24/7.
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