07.02.17 Recap

Elon Musk thinks he can make getting to Mars cheaper than going to college

And the Boring Company is in talks with LA

...annnd has apparently started to bore

Lots happening in 🚗  the past few weeks...

Texas explicitly allows driverless car tests

Alphabet Inks Deal for Avis to Manage Self-Driving Car Fleet

Apple Is Working With Hertz to Manage Its Self-Driving Car Fleet

Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision

Tesla’s New AI Guru Could Help Its Cars Teach Themselves

Ford’s on-demand bus service Chariot expands to Seattle

Waymo’s self-driving van hits the desert to see if it can stand the heat

And plenty of other happenings + thoughts...

Hard Questions: How We Counter Terrorism from Facebook

The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy

Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook's mission

MIT CSAIL research offers a fully automated way to peer inside neural nets

Ex Machina’s Scientific Advisor – Murray Shanahan

Bezos's Grocery 'Waterloo' Is Now His Biggest Opportunity

In a few years, no investors are going to be looking for AI startups

Forget AlphaGo—DeepMind Has a More Interesting Step Toward General AI

Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all

Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network

The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed

A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education

You can now sign up for early access to Google’s wacky Area 120 app experiments

How HBO’s Silicon Valley built “Not Hotdog” with mobile TensorFlow, Keras & React Native 🌭

Why Are Corporations So Bad At Working With Startups?

Your Apple Pay purchases can help preserve national parks
Awesome to see Apple step up and help preserve our national treasures 💪