Because of the government shut down earlier in the year, there was a delay in with IPOs as the SEC could not evaluate the filings. But now it looks like the market is getting ready for a flood of deals. One of the first will be PagerDuty, which was actually founded during the financial crisis of 2009. The core mission of the company is "to connect teams to real-time opportunity and elevate work to the outcomes that matter." Interestingly enough, PagerDuty refers to itself as the central nervous system of a digital enterprise.

A new federal commission on artificial intelligence is being led by Democrats. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a federally appointed commission, held its first meeting Monday chaired by former Google executive and billionaire Eric Schmidt, a major donor and informal adviser to former President Barack Obama. The commission's vice chairman is Robert Work, who was deputy defense secretary in the Obama administration. Additionally, the AI commission has hired as a staff member Ylli Bajraktari, a former National Security Council staff member under Mr. Obama. Mr. Bajraktari also was a former aide to Obama Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

Should we be scared of artificial intelligence (AI)? Some notable individuals such as legendary physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla and SpaceX leader and innovator Elon Musk suggest AI could potentially be very dangerous; Musk at one point was comparing AI to the dangers of the dictator of North Korea. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates also believes there's reason to be cautious, but that the good can outweigh the bad if managed properly. Since recent developments have made super-intelligent machines possible much sooner than initially thought, the time is now to determine what dangers artificial intelligence poses. What is applied and general artificial intelligence?

Machine learning has the potential to democratize access to credit. It can expand the pool of people qualified to obtain credit -- most notably low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers -- and decrease the cost of that credit. It also can increase access to credit and reduce systemic risk by allowing different banks to analyze different factors, and thereby generate different results in a way that the existing, FICO-based system discourages. The greatest current obstacle to this development is pressure from the banking regulators to continue adhering to the status quo system, lest machine learning produce an unfortunate outcome. Perversely, that system already contains the very flaws that regulators have expressed about machine learning.

In the near future, an Air Force pilot's wingman could be flown by artificial intelligence. The two might fly side-by-side in a highly contested war zone -- and the AI aircraft not only takes the lead, it begins making choices. Does it fire missiles or drop bombs ahead of its fighter counterpart? Probably, because the human response has a lag time, unlike a machine that can detect and react immediately, if necessary. It sounds very much like the Air Force's proposed Loyal Wingman program.

Reuters reports the former Texas congressman once belonged to Cult of the Dead Cow, an influential group "jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse." While there's no evidence that O'Rourke really got his hands dirty with what we'd consider nefarious "hacking," he was a member, which might help explain some of the policies he could champion during a presidential run. Music royalties can be confusing, but this piece breaks down what's happening with Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon. And most importantly, why it matters. A profile of Demis Hassabis, a co-founder of DeepMind, examines the origins of the AI startup and asks how much longer it can retain its independence from Google.

Nicole Eagan believes a robot uprising draws nigh. As the chief executive of Darktrace, a cybersecurity "unicorn," or private firm valued at more than $1 billion, Eagan helps companies spot intruders in corporate networks, quarantine them, and defend data. The British firm's technology uses machine learning techniques to gain an understanding of the internal state of customers' networks and then watches for telltale deviations from the norm that may indicate foul play. While Darktrace uses A.I. techniques for defense, the company anticipates that thieves and spies will soon catch up. "I expect that we're going to see artificial intelligence used by the attackers," says Eagan, noting that there already have been "early glimpses" of that future coming to pass.

While we take a look back at some highlight stories this week out of SXSW, there's a trial result in Apple v. Qualcomm, and a presidential candidate's past is quite relevant to our interests. Oh, and we rode in the Model Y. Almost forgot about that. That's one way to do it.Fan While you wouldn't mistake it for an official remaster, using AI Gigapixel's neural networks on old Deep Space 9 video provides a considerably cleaner, sharper look than the 480p original without introducing visual artifacts. This is just one of several cases going on between the two companies.Jury decides Apple violated three Qualcomm patents in iPhones Following a two-week trial, a jury has determined that Apple violated three Qualcomm patents in some iPhones.

President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The great rivalry of the 20th century, at least from the America perspective, was between the United States and the Soviet Union. Geopolitical chroniclers see the great rivalry of the 21st century as between the U.S. and China. In the nine months between his inauguration and 9/11, President George W. Bush advanced the idea of China as America's peer competitor. President Barack Obama executed the "pivot to Asia," based on the argument that, while the U.S. was mired in the Middle East, the most important global shifts were taking place in Asia.

According to the law published in the Official Gazette, a foreign direct investment unit is to be established in the Ministry of Economy. This will be "responsible for proposing foreign direct investment policies in the country and determining its priorities, and setting up associated plans and programmes, and work on their implementation following their approval by the UAE cabinet."