Uber creates chief scientist post to plot its AI future

Pride has quickly given way to consternation in some parts of Israel's tech community, following yesterday's news that Intel will buy hometown hero Mobileye for $15.3 billion. In short, there accusations that Mobileye sold out to Silicon Valley. Instead, he argues in a blog post that the Intel purchase will increase global attention on Israel's machine learning sector and, more importantly, inspire new entrepreneurs: