Uber announces a self-driving car pilot in Pittsburgh using Volvo XC90s. The rideshare + autonomy thesis becomes the dominant narrative for…

NVIDIA announces the Xavier SoC roadmap at GTC. Purpose-built edge AI compute becomes a major product category for autonomous systems.

Google announces Google Home, its competitor to Amazon Echo. The assistant wars become a three-horse race with Apple Siri also in the mix.

CMUs Libratus poker AI beats four of the worlds best heads-up no-limit Texas Hold em players over 120,000 hands. Imperfect-information…

Google Translate quietly rolls out Neural Machine Translation to all supported languages. Translation quality leaps and machine-translation…

University of Alberta researchers release DeepStack, another poker AI that surpasses human experts at heads-up no-limit. Game-theoretic AI…

Alphabet spins out Waymo as an independent company. Self-driving becomes a standalone business with a path to commercialization.

AI startup Vicarious publishes research showing its Recursive Cortical Network can solve CAPTCHAs with far less training data than deep…

Google unveils the second-generation TPU with training support. Cloud TPU compute becomes accessible via Google Cloud Platform.

AlphaGo beats world #1 Ke Jie 3-0 at the Future of Go Summit. DeepMind announces AlphaGo will retire from competitive play.

Google researchers publish "Attention Is All You Need," introducing the Transformer architecture. The paper quietly sets the foundation for…

IEEE publishes Ethically Aligned Design, a framework for ethical AI and autonomous systems. The document becomes a reference for corporate…