A coalition of over 1,000 researchers — including Hawking, Musk, and Wozniak — signs an open letter warning against autonomous weapons…

Apple launches iPhone 6S with 3D Touch pressure-sensitive display. The A9 chip introduces ML-accelerated image processing directly…

October 21, 2015 — the date Marty McFly arrived in Back to the Future II. The cultural moment frames a public retrospective on…

Google open-sources TensorFlow. The release transforms the deep learning research landscape and kicks off widespread corporate AI adoption.

OpenAI is founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and others with an initial $1B pledge. Its mission: AGI that…

DeepMind reveals that AlphaGo has beaten European Go champion Fan Hui 5-0. The match marks the first professional human defeat at Go by a…

Google Self-Driving Car has its first at-fault accident, a minor collision with a bus. The event sparks a broader discussion of liability…

DeepMind AlphaGo defeats world Go champion Lee Sedol 4-1 in Seoul. "Move 37" in Game 2 becomes a legendary moment in AI history.

Facebook launches its Messenger Bot platform at F8. An explosion of chatbot startups follows, though the early hype would fade faster than…

Google announces the TPU, a custom ASIC designed for machine-learning inference. The TPU would power services like Translate, Photos, and…

Microsoft acquires LinkedIn for $26.2B, accumulating the worlds largest professional graph — a treasure-trove for future AI recruitment and…

Niantic launches Pokémon GO. The game becomes a global phenomenon and proves mass-market appetite for augmented reality overlays.