The Year's Most Fascinating Tech Stories From Around the Web

Last Saturday we took a look at some of the most-read Singularity Hub articles from 2019. As opposed to short pieces about what's happening, these are long reads about why it matters and what's coming next. Some of them make the news while others frame the news, go deep on big ideas, go behind the scenes, or explore the human side of technological progress. We hope you find them as fascinating, inspiring, and illuminating as we did. DeepMind and Google: The Battle to Control Artificial Intelligence Hal Hodson 1843 "[DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis] Hassabis thought DeepMind would be a hybrid: it would have the drive of a startup, the brains of the greatest universities, and the deep pockets of one of the world's most valuable companies. Every element was in place to hasten the arrival of [artificial general intelligence] and solve the causes of human misery."