MIT plans $1bn college for artificial intelligence

Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman provides $350m gift to help fund new building

Computer-driven investing: who needs people?

Computers increasingly dominate today’s investment world, but they can only go so far

Google employees make stand against US drone programme

Staff sign letter of protest against company’s involvement in Pentagon drone programme

Start-up making waves with potential solution to plastic waste

BioCellection has developed advanced technologies to transform non-recyclable plastics into virgin-quality chemicals for use in sustainable supply chains

Stripe acquires payments firm previously backed by Google

Index builds card-present software, giving Collison brothers a product for offline sales

Google’s Eric Schmidt to step down as executive chairman

Schmidt took the company public in 2004 and made the company into a global powerhouse

Google withdraws YouTube from Amazon’s speaker and video devices

Internet giant cites ‘lack of reciprocity’ from Amazon

Google’s EU fine drags down parent company’s profits 28%

Alphabet’s revenue boosted by robust demand for ads on mobile and YouTube

All eyes on battle for congressional seat in Georgia

US Wrap: Democrat Jon Ossoff could take Republican seat; Trump meets tech leaders

Trump to meet with tech CEOs on government overhaul

Visa program for highly skilled workers will be discussed at the meeting

Lucy Kellaway: Let’s all take a cue from the manterrupters

Men should not be made to interrupt less – women should be made to do it more

No guarantees for advertisers as extremists beat Google algorithm

Cantillon: YouTube owner’s promise to tackle hate speech is easier said than done

YouTube exodus highlights problem with online advertising

Several Irish brands this week pulled ads from the video-sharing service

Research into artificial intelligence should not be left to military, says Google exec

Eric Schmidt tells RSA conference of need to ‘demilitarise the internet’

Hackers will attack major infrastructure, conference hears

Organisations told they need to find ‘the right balance between man or machine’

Why Trump is making some business leaders nervous

Those who spoke out against the US president-elect must wait to see what he may do

Una Mullally: Will the tech overlords save us from Trump?

Will they use their power to resist or do they want a piece of greatest ever act of ‘disruption’: the disruption of US democracy itself

Google in Dublin for the engineers, not just the back-up and tax breaks

Dublin teams play crucial role in Google projects, says company vice-president

Future homes: 3-D Printed and ready to roll - or fly

3-D printing chief teams up with Nasa to develop sustainable approach to housing

Dropbox diversity head Judith Williams speaks up on bias

Judith Williams built a career helping the tech industry to tackle their lack of diversity

Caveat: Denis O’Brien is no friend of Facebook and Google

Digicel owner has threatened to block social networks’ adverts unless deal concluded

Google’s crafty Android strategy put it on collision course with EU

Google nudged phonemakers towards adopting mobile tech without strict enforcement

‘Coach’ Bill Campbell leaves legacy of Silicon Valley stars

Long-term trusted adviser to tech giants died this week

Planet Business

Fairygodboss, Michael Sheen, ‘liberalism offsets’ and executive pay at Google

Google chief executive got $100.5m pay package last year

Sundar Pichai received a $100.5 million in pay in 2015, according to a filing from parent company Alphabet

Davos 2016: the five big themes

World Economic Forum to grapple with big issues from climate change to refugee crisis

Oxfam says 1% of population own half of world’s wealth

International report reveals that 62 richest own same as poorest 50% of population

Post-PC era to give way to post-website era

Rise of apps represents a potentially fundamental change for internet

Who got the Walmart money?

Court reveals what was a closely guarded family secret - where John T Walton’s fortune went after he died in a plane crash 10 years ago

Space a distraction from the discoveries awaiting us in Earth’s unexplored oceans

There is a growing movement to map the oceans, so why is space getting all the publicity?

Google restructuring must not be at cost to productivity

Managers should be under no illusion about the increased pressure they will now face

The battle between surveillance, security and the right to privacy

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service

Jeb Bush visits Berlin and talks tough on Russia

Likely Republican presidential candidate praises Germany’s approach to austerity

Silicon Valley fixates on wax as Madame Tussauds takes vote

Next tech figure at the San Francisco museum will be selected from shortlist of 10

Lucy Kellaway: Billionaires a strange breed, but a safe bet in marriage

Contrary to expectations, most of the supersuccessful who wed are in it for the long haul

Google ‘on the wrong side of history’ with Commission

Web giant may have massively lost out by not doing a deal on time

Artificial intelligence not a threat, SXSW hears

Google chairman says he is optimistic that computers and humans make a good team

Al Gore calls on SXSW to turn its focus on climate change

More than 70,000 expected in Austin, Texas as annual showcase begins

Data protection: EU getting tougher on tech companies on a number of fronts

Revelations about phone-tapping and surveillance caused waves between EU and US

Taoiseach to join Irish entrepreneurs and musicians at SXSW in Austin

Enda Kenny will address session as part of Entreprise Ireland’s partnership of next month’s Interactive event in Texas

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