Always has been, always wi– Wait, what? Every company seeks to expand beyond its core market, both to satisfy shareholders as well as grow its sales opportunities. Intel has spent a lot of time and money over the years trying to move beyond processors alone and test the waters as a consumer brand. You could see the evolution: the Intel chime (dumdumdumDUM!), the dancing bunny people, the expansion into various parts of the PC… and beyond. Intel's core business, though, has always had an underlying goal: sell more chips.

She begins at Zoox on Feb. 26. Her hiring makes Ms. Evans, born in Senegal and raised in Paris, one of the most high-profile black women running a Silicon Valley tech company. She succeeds Tim Kentley-Klay, the co-founder who was removed as CEO by Zoox's board last August after the company had completed a $500 million round that valued the company at $3.2 billion. At the time of his ouster, Mr. Kentley-Klay said in a statement that the board abruptly fired him and "chose a path of fear, optimizing for a little money in hand at the expense of profound progress for the universe." Mr. Kentley-Klay, an Australian designer, co-founded the company in 2014 with Jesse Levinson, who had made a name for himself in self-driving car development at Stanford University.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned after the company learned of what it called a past, consensual relationship with an employee. Intel said Thursday that the relationship was in violation of the company's non-fraternization policy, which applies to all managers. Spokesman William Moss said Intel has had the policy in place for "many years." He declined to comment further. Chief Financial Officer Robert Swan will take over as interim CEO immediately.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned after the company learned of what it called a past, consensual relationship with an employee. Intel said Thursday that the relationship was in violation of the company's non-fraternization policy, which applies to all managers. Spokesman William Moss said Intel has had the policy in place for "many years." He declined to comment further. Chief Financial Officer Robert Swan will take over as interim CEO immediately.

Intel is facing a turning point in its nearly 50-year history. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned yesterday, following an ongoing investigation into a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee that violated the company's non-fraternization policy. It's a surprise end for Krzanich, who first joined Intel more than 35 years ago and spent most of his time at the company on the operations side. Krzanich was appointed Intel CEO five years ago, and was left with the messy task of fleshing out Intel's mobile strategy and driving the company forward in new markets. Known for PCs and servers, Intel's business has been disrupted by smartphones and the cloud, and the company was caught seemingly unaware by the rise of AI and autonomous vehicles.

Brian Krzanich is no longer the chief executive of Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, according to a statement from the company Thursday morning announcing his resignation. The reason: Krzanich "had a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee," which Intel says violates the company's non-fraternization policy. Put differently, Intel is saying that in the past Krzanich had an affair with someone else who works at Intel, probably someone under him, since he's been an executive for decades, and that's against the rules. Krzanich is married with two children. Now the company's chief financial officer, Robert Swan, will serve as Intel's interim CEO.

Leaders from three dozen companies and federal agencies gathered at the White House on Thursday to discuss artificial intelligence. Along with government officials, the D.C. summit gathered leaders from three dozen tech giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google, as well as business leaders from other industries such as energy, healthcare and transportation. A big push was to get the administration to pay attention to AI. Some pushed for the government to take a larger role in both discussing the implications of automation, as well as pushing for more research funding, according to the AP. In a blog post, Nvidia VP of Accelerated Computing Ian Buck, who attended the meeting, voiced a need for infrastructure.

Sometimes you've got to admire the shamelessness of Libertarian-loving Silicon Valley -- a region that does its best to keep the government at bay and avoid paying taxes yet doesn't hesitate for a second to ask that same government for help when it runs into trouble. Such is the moment we've reached with the development of artificial intelligence. To accelerate their AI industries, governments around the world are formulating aggressive industrial policies, including investment, technology roadmaps, and regulations. Silicon Valley, home to many of the current AI giants, has looked around and said "Gulp." Worried that their dominance is under siege from all sides, U.S. tech companies dutifully trotted to the White House this week for a summit on AI policy. And so began an awkward dance in which all players tried to reconcile a cultish devotion to the free market with the possibility of developing a more centralized approach -- despite its whiff of soul-killing socialism.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are poised to have a breakout 2018 in the world of media and entertainment. During the recent IBC show, Adrian Drury, group technology strategy and insight director at Liberty Global, called AI "something that's transforming our business today." "It will disrupt pretty much all areas of the market," agreed David Mowrey, head of Product & Business Development for IBM Watson Media. "We're just scratching the surface on how transformative AI will be." AI often refers to any machine or computer that exhibits cognitive functions similar to those shown in human beings.

This year's CES was a great show for robots. "From the latest in self-driving vehicles, smart cities, AI, sports tech, robotics, health and fitness tech and more, the innovation at CES 2018 will further global business and spur new jobs and new markets around the world," said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA. Voice control of almost everything from robots to refrigerators was de rigueur. The growing amount of artificial intelligence software and the race between Amazon, Google and their Chinese counterparts Alibaba and Baidu to be the go-to service for integration was on full display. Signs advertised that products worked with Google Assistant or Amazon's Alexa or both, or with Duer-OS (Baidu's conversational operating system) but, by the sheer number of products that worked with the Alexa voice assistant, Amazon appeared to dominate.