This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A conversation with Microsoft President Brad Smith, on stage at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event this week at Town Hall Seattle, discussing the company’s anniversary and what’s next for the industry and the world.

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Links discussed in the podcast intro:

• Using AI to uncover allegations in the JFK files of the CIA secretly funding a series of spy novels to influence public opinion in the 1960s.
• Fireballs, foxholes, and cryogenic suspension: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s greatest quips

With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop

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