Waymo Spun Out from Google as Standalone Self-Driving Company

Alphabet spins out Waymo as an independent company. Self-driving becomes a…


DeepStack Solves Heads-Up No-Limit Hold em — More AI Poker Wins

University of Alberta researchers release DeepStack, another poker AI that…


Google Neural Machine Translation Goes Live for 100+ Languages

Google Translate quietly rolls out Neural Machine Translation to all supported…


AI Beats Top Poker Players — Libratus at Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Holdem

CMUs Libratus poker AI beats four of the worlds best heads-up no-limit Texas…


Google Home Announced — Voice Assistants Enter Every Home

Google announces Google Home, its competitor to Amazon Echo. The assistant wars…


NVIDIA Releases the Xavier SoC Roadmap — Edge AI Hardware

NVIDIA announces the Xavier SoC roadmap at GTC. Purpose-built edge AI compute…


Uber and Volvo Launch Self-Driving Pilots in Pittsburgh

Uber announces a self-driving car pilot in Pittsburgh using Volvo XC90s. The…


Pokémon GO Launches — Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream

Niantic launches Pokémon GO. The game becomes a global phenomenon and proves…


Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn for $26.2B — Enterprise Data for AI

Microsoft acquires LinkedIn for $26.2B, accumulating the worlds largest…


Google I/O Announces Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

Google announces the TPU, a custom ASIC designed for machine-learning…


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