02.12.17 Recap — Wesley Pennington

How to Build a Hard Tech Startup by Jason Rosenthal
MVP --> MVTV (minimally viable technical validation). Offers some interesting perspectives on chasing hard tech problems.

ACLU joins YC by Sam Altman
This is awesome. And timely. Excited to see how things go. More non-profits, NGOs, and even governments could benefit from such an experience. 💯

Managing With Immature AI by Sam Ransbotham
Just because we are in an AI spring doesn't mean it's always fully baked. With so much hype, the current state of AI doesn't always live up to its promise and early products can disappoint. Sam offers why managers should not sit on the sidelines and wait until it develops further — they should start incorporating AI into business processes now.

Cybersecurity Experts Uncover Dormant Botnet of 350,000 Twitter Accounts by Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy by YCombinator
Very important issues with lots of room for innovation and disruption.

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub funds first crop of 47 investigators by Jocelyn Kaiser
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The Economics of AI w/ Andrew Ng by Derrick Harris

What Managers Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence by Jason Rosenthal

Why Salesforce Is Snapping Up AI Startups (and Passing on Marketing Ones) by Erin Griffith

You, and A(I) by Ed White

Introducing Slack Enterprise Grid by SlackHQ

Search at Slack by Isabella Tromba, John Gallagher, and Jason Liszka

Fake news is about to get even scarier than you ever dreamed by Nick Bilton

Intelligent Agents + Things by Vijay Sundaram

Amazon Launches an AI Blog by Swami Sivasubramanian, Matt Wood, and Alexander Smola