Cambridge Analyticas use of Facebook data for political micro-targeting becomes a defining AI-ethics scandal. Public trust in social-media…

Tesla begins teasing a custom AI chip for Autopilot — the "FSD Computer" — which would replace NVIDIA hardware and lead to the Dojo…

Within months of release, BERT and its larger variant dominate every major NLP benchmark. Google adds BERT to Search, affecting 10% of all…

Waymo launches its public self-driving ride service, Waymo One, in Phoenix. The first revenue-generating autonomous ride-hailing service…

DeepMinds AlphaFold wins the CASP13 protein-structure competition by a wide margin. The result signals that AI may solve one of biologys…

DeepMinds AlphaStar defeats top professional StarCraft II players. Real-time strategy games — long considered a grand challenge for AI —…

OpenAI releases GPT-2 publicly, initially withholding the 1.5B parameter model citing dual-use concerns. The staged release opens a new…

IBM unveils Q System One, the worlds first integrated commercial quantum computer. The machine would serve as a research platform for…

Tesla hosts Autonomy Day, revealing its custom FSD chip and laying out the roadmap to robotaxi. The 2.5B transistor chip is purpose-built…

Google announces federated learning for Gboard — training AI on user devices without sending data to servers. Privacy-preserving ML moves…

Facebook AI releases PyTorch 1.1 with improved distributed training. PyTorch continues its rapid ascent as the researcher-preferred deep…

Elon Musks Neuralink reveals its first brain-computer interface prototype. Thousands of micron-scale electrodes read brain signals — the…