08.06.17 Recap

TL;DR Review of KPCB’s 2017 Internet & Tech Trends
Full 2017 report posted here by Mary Meeker

Marc Andreessen answers questions from Stripe Atlas founders
Also wrt Stripe, a nice feature of the company/founders -  How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup

The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice

How to Start a Cultural Revolution | Ben Horowitz
Sage advice from Ben with his classic Toussaint case study - always enjoy hearing him tell this story.

Apple launches a machine learning journal (blog? 🤔) 
In any event, nice to see technical details and transparency around some of the work they're doing.

Q&A with YC Partners at the Female Founders Conference

Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI

Beijing Wants A.I. to Be Made in China by 2030

Cardiologist-Level Arrhythmia Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks

This DNA-mimicking protein can make gene editing more precise and safe

Cracks in the ridesharing market—and how to fill them

Google’s AI Guru Says That Great Artificial Intelligence Must Build on Neuroscience

Lyft launches a new self-driving division and will develop its own autonomous ride-hailing technology

Combining design with data to reimagine ridesharing

BMW says self-driving car to be level 5 capable by 2021

The business of AI:  What it can — and cannot — do for your organization

Bringing neural networks to cellphones

Google.org is launching a $50 million effort to prepare job seekers for the ‘future of work’

The future of deep learning

Britain to Ban New Diesel and Gas Cars by 2040

A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet

Electric car startup Lucid Motors is short of cash and weighing its options

Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return

Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Big Data
Interesting overview of the space from a technical perspective

04.23.17 Recap

Tesla Semi truck unveil set for September

VW to build a ‘nationwide 150 kW+ fast charging network’ for electric vehicles as part of Dieselgate settlement

Apple Said to Near Road Tests of Self-Driving Car Software

Copy that -- Apple just received a permit to test self-driving cars in California

Bezos on the Future of Amazon the company's annual report (hint:  lots of AI)

And now, a brief feature on Facebook who's receiving a lot of love this time around...

Facebook outlines how it is going to fight misinformation and fake news, amongst other things in it's Information Operations at Facebook report

Facebook's Building8 working on brain-computer interface technology
I mentioned this tech a few weeks back when Neuralink formally popped up. Very fascinating tech. Oh, and they got the former head of DARPA to oversee things.

Facebook owns four out of the five most downloaded apps worldwide (wow, that's strong 💪)

So is this - Facebook Gives Staff Green Light to Join May 1 Political Protests

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to boost sharing of global scientific research in collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (aka bioRxiv)
[Side note:  really awesome to see Mark's commitment to the Chan Zuckerberg initiative]

And back to our regularly schedule programming...

Princeton’s Ad-Blocking Superweapon May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
☝️ What's cool about this is the information literacy component -- that is, highlighting ads not just censoring. You know, teach a (wo)man to fish and what not. Similar approaches could be expanded to other use cases.

Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ exclusive solar panel made by Panasonic

This Week In Statups: Stripe Patrick Collison on online payment pwrhouse, Atlas, public/private mkts, & GDP of net (again, huge fan of the Atlas)

Speaking of Stripe - Susan Fowler to lead Stripe’s new engineering tips publication

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

Facebook’s Perfect, Impossible Chatbot

CommAI: Evaluating the First Steps Towards a Useful General AI

Live Office Hours with Yuri Sagalov and Sam Altman

Toyota unveils plans to build a fleet of heavy-duty, hydrogen-powered trucks

04.09.2017 Recap

Uber’s self-driving cars are back on the road after Arizona accident

Introducing Station F, Paris' newly constructed startup hub

And Neuralink
Elon looks to develop brain-computer interface. Incredibly fascinating work with many implications. 

Here's more - The case for neural lace:  Elon Musk enters the world of brain-computer interfaces

Adapting ideas from neuroscience for AI

Stripe opens Atlas business creation toolkit to U.S. entrepreneurs
Big ups to Stripe for this project -- happy to see it expand stateside. 👍

Cars and second order consequences

Tech community "dumbfounded" by Mnuchin's dismissal of AI impact on jobs

Meanwhile, Six jobs are eliminated for every robot introduced into the workforce, a new study says

How Aristotle Created the Computer

Volkswagen doubles down on China with $180M investment in smart technology for cars

Dyson Is the Apple of Appliances (and Just as Secretive)

DARPA Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) Program (next-gen processor)

IEEE Global Initiative Aims to Advance Ethical Design of AI and Autonomous Systems

Hacking DNA: The Story of CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive

Toyota is using AI to hunt for new battery materials

Facebook plans a free version of its Slack competitor

Google's former self-driving car guru raises cash for his own startup

London trials driverless shuttle service

Mercedes-Benz speeds up the launch timeline for 10 new electric vehicles