How Tech Giants are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence by John Markoff
Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are coming together to form an industry group focused on the creation of a standard of ethics around artificial intelligence. The group's aims will be to be to ensure that AI research is focused on benefiting people, not hurting them.

One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) by Stanford + Co. (thx Eric Horvitz)
A consortium of researchers released a report out of Stanford University that details the impact of artificial intelligence on society. The brainchild of Eric Horvitz, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research and Stanford alum, the group includes a host of leading academicians and talented contributors. Certainly an interesting read and, incidentally, the inspiration for the industry group noted earlier ☝️ .

The Next Big Shift in SaaS by Tomasz Tunguz
In addition to sharing his thoughts on the workflow of the future, which I shared a week or so ago, Tomasz discusses how SaaS applications can move from being displacers to disruptors. I had a recent conversation that arrived at a similar conclusion. Doing some reading after the fact led me to this post from July. A timely read, despite the delay.

First Round Capital's FAQs from First Round Capital
First Round Capital opens up their playbook to provide more insight into what they're looking for in new investments, their process, and how they make decisions. Great to see this type of increased transparency in the venture space. ICYMI - Bloomberg Beta recently open sourced their manual, too.

Facebook AI Research open sourcing tools
FAIR is releasing some of Facebook's tools including fastText for text classification and DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet which are used to understand objects in photos...