SV Chat: Iris Nemani on stewarding ‘the heart of Stanford’s cultural hub’

Meet Iris Nemani, the (still relatively) new McMurtry Family director for Stanford Live on the Stanford University campus.
Observer

Meet Luna, an A.I. Agent Managing a Brick-and-Mortar Store, and the Humans Behind Her

Backed by Y Combinator, Andon Labs opened a San Francisco shop to see whether A.I. agents can manage workers, logistics and money. The A.I. manaer has hired staff, ordered inventory and exposed ...
The New York Times

Why A.I. is the Hidden Minefield of Trump’s China Visit

The leaders of both countries are expected to discuss the risks from artificial intelligence, but neither country is willing to be the first to slow down. By Vivian Wang When President Trump and ...
The New York Times

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...
The New Yorker

Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?

This is Part 1 in a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. A few weeks ago, while I was dealing with taxes, it occurred to me that the money my wife and I were ...
NPR

What is a radical? It's the question of M.I.A.'s vexing career

In journals from 1838, the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a self-reprimand challenging his personal understanding of critical discourse: "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming ...