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The article presents brief profiles of the top young businesspeople in the 30 Under 30 lists in a variety of fields. It includes football player Bobby Wagner of the Seattle Seahawks, actors Cole and Dylan Sprouse, helicopter equipment inventor Caleb Carr, and musician Normani.

The article reports on the shift in focus of the venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz. It mentions the founding of the company in 2009 and its focus on Silicon Valley firms, the support it gave the companies it was funding, and the switch to become an investment advisor company.

The article reports on computer scientist Daphne Koller and her latest project focusing on pharmaceutical research. It mentions the use of artificial intelligence to determine proteins suitable for drugs, the availability of big data to enable this search, and the company Insitro which is running the research.

Odds are that only about 16 percent of your company's Facebook fans are reading your wall posts, according to the social networking site. A new service called PostRocket can improve [...]

Months after the wife of wealthy robotics founder Scott Hassan sued him for selling his startup for an "indefensible" price, the company, Suitable Technologies, has filed for bankruptcy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google parent Alphabet is killing off its energy kite subsidiary, Makani, as the company increasingly espouses financial discipline for its so-called moonshot projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doctors, airport workers, and hotel staff are using high-tech machines to help contain the outbreak that has been sweeping the world since was first discovered in Wuhan, China in late December. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the company's first report since Sundar Pichai took over as Alphabet CEO in December, Alphabet made new disclosures around YouTube ads and its cloud business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the timing of the survey does fluctuate, this year's Googlegeist was distributed slightly later than in previous years — after the new year, instead of before it — which, given the company's turbulent year, had raised questions about whether it was phasing out the practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bosses and workers alike hate expense reports. Utah startup Divvy thinks its credit card approach is better—and a lot of smart investors agree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Drummond, Alphabet's controversial chief legal officer who was being investigated as part of a probe into the company's handling of sexual misconduct, is leaving the company, effective January 31. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of BuzzFeed's 2020 roadmap it plans to broaden the scope of it's commerce business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Newly-appointed Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will have his annual salary bumped to $2 million, with stock grants potentially worth nearly $250 million. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Former Google employee Kathryn Spiers is accusing the company of illegally firing her for her workplace organizing efforts, a week after four other employees made a similar complaint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The judge in a Delaware court said the acquisition process raises 'concerns.' Allison Huynh is accusing her husband, Scott Hassan, of selling his robot startup for too low a price. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tuesday's announcement that Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet does not significantly shift the company's status quo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Technology honorees are shaping the future of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google founder Larry Page is stepping down as the CEO of Alphabet, a position he's held since 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patient recruitment for clinical trials can be a particularly brutal bottleneck in the drug development process. Deep 6 has raised $17 million in fresh funding for its AI-powered patient matching tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google employees are holding a rally in San Francisco on Friday to call for the reinstatement of two workers that the company placed on administrative leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Can a giant pile of data beat human expertise in the design of miracle drugs? Daphne Koller and her startup Insitro may come up with a surprising answer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google is testing a service that would use its search and artificial intelligence technology to analyze patient records for Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the U. S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, 27, knows what he'd be working on if not for his current defense venture, Anduril Industries: Petroleum-based food or nonprofit prisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erika Chueng, a Theranos whistleblower, believes the unraveling of Elizabeth Holmes' blood-testing company and its decline from a Silicon Valley superstar to an outright fraud is indicative of larger culture issues in startups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oculus and Anduril Industries cofounder Palmer Luckey called out tech companies hesitant to work with the U.S. government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sisu, a new data analytics company founded by Stanford professor Peter Bailis, emerges from stealth Wednesday with $52 million in fresh funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The startup just raised a $206 million Series E funding round for its machine learning automation platform and its new billion-dollar unicorn valuation makes it the highest ranking "picks-and-shovels" startup featured on Forbes' AI 50 list. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating every industry, allowing vehicles to navigate without drivers, assisting doctors with medical diagnoses, and giving financial institutions more nuanced ways to predict risk. But for all the authentic use cases, there's a lot of hype too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a start, it's not that intelligent. The founders of Forbes first AI 50 list share their thoughts on what people get wrong about artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Former Google employee Jennifer Blakely has written a scathing blog post with allegations about how her affair with chief legal officer David Drummond unfolded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind, the acclaimed AI lab that Google bought in 2014, has been placed on leave, Bloomberg reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google parent company Alphabet reported second-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations, sending the stock soaring nearly 9%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future pushes for the ban of government use of facial recognition technologies, it has created an interactive map to show which areas use it and which have resisted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the 10th annual VidCon conference in Anaheim, YouTube's chief product officer Neal Mohan ditched the platform's recent slew of apologies to talk about new ways creators could make money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After more than a year of debate and criticism, Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs has finally unveiled its plan for a "smart" development along Toronto's waterfront. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While shareholders may be impressed with Alphabet's record profits, the meeting gave them an opportunity to air grievances about the company's many controversies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the Code Conference in Arizona earlier this week, tech leaders from Amazon, Facebook and Google argued against regulation as antitrust scrutiny ramps up in Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legendary analyst Mary Meeker started creating her now-iconic Internet Trends report in 1995. This year's presentation touches on the rise of freemium subscription models, encrypted messaging apps, and telemedicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defended the company's decision not to ban conservative personality Stephen Crowder during an appearance at the Code Conference in Arizona on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google plans to buy the data platform Looker in a $2.6 billion all-cash deal, a major step for new Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jeff Bezos says that the best way to win support for an idea is by acknowledging there is no one right answer. Amazon employees are taught to "disagree and commit." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Actor Robert Downey Jr. announced a new project called The Footprint Coalition to clean up the planet using advanced technologies at Amazon's re:MARS conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At Amazon's re:MARS conference in Las Vegas the company announced a new package delivery drone, as well as fresh warehouse robots and ways for Alexa to predict how you want to spend your Saturday night. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Users of Googles cellphone service, Fi, were unable to place or receive phone calls on Monday, less than a day after a massive Cloud outage knocked out services like YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We want to highlight 50 private, U.S.-based companies that are applying artificial intelligence to solve problems in innovative ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four years after Google Glass's spectacular consumer flop, the company is relaunching a new edition of the product for work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google's process of redesigning its Maps app for motorbike riders in India showed the company how it needed to better integrate user research with product design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google is launching a bunch of new ecommerce tools for advertisers as it tries to position itself as more of a shopping destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Backed by one of Google's earliest investors, Diffbot's MikeTung is trying to win the information wars by analyzing nearly all of the web. Data hungry corporations like Snapchat and eBay are biting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google just launched two new Pixel phones that cost roughly half the price of their predecessors but still include many of the same software features, including advanced camera capabilities and spam call screening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]