Business, Spoken

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President Barack Obama envisions AI as the next Apollo program—an $80 billion effort shepherded by the US government. But not too much shepherding. In his interview with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, President Obama said that the government should facilitate a range of research in artificial intelligence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

AltSchool isn't just for AltSchool anymore. Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these as mini educational labs where it's working to create a new kind of personalized educational for the 21st century, and now, the company is sharing its philosophies with the outside world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Donald Trump says that the Presidential election is rigged against him and that the news media unfairly treats him and his many supporters. So, naturally, the rumor is that Trump is now planning to launch his own television network after all the votes are counted in November. According to The Financial Times, citing multiple unnamed sources, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has contacted a top media dealmaker about the possibility of Trump TV. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Noe arrived in the United States after a treacherous two-month journey to flee El Salvador. He hiked through the jungle, rode on top of trains, slept on the streets of Mexico City, and trekked through the desert. Eventually he made it to San Francisco. When Noe enrolled in high school, he discovered a passion—and a valuable talent—for chemistry and calculus. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In this post-Tinder world, your profile picture is everything. The world swipes right (acceptance!) or swipes left (rejection!) based solely on what your photo looks like. Not what you look like. What your photo looks like. So, when hunting for dates and other forms of conjugation, you better get that photo right. Your future could hinge on whether you choose the pic where you're hugging the labradoodle or the one where you're hiking through the woods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Artificial intelligence can bring enormous prosperity and opportunity. President Obama knows that. But in an interview with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, the president also worries that AI could suppress wages, eliminate jobs, and create new inequalities. As we build new forms of AI, he says, we must also develop new economic and social models that can ensure these technologies don't leave people behind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Why is Amazon opening brick-and-mortar grocery stories? Because it wants to dominate groceries online. Yes, Amazon is opening a string of physical groceries-or at least that's the word from The Wall Street Journal, which cites multiple anonymous sources familiar with the matter. According to the paper, Amazon calls this Project Como, and the first store is planned for the company's home city of Seattle, Washington. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Situation Room is not as gee-whiz as you think it is. Take it from someone who knows: President Obama. "I always imagined the Situation Room would be this super cool thing, it'd be like Tom Cruise in The Minority Report," Obama, the guest editor of WIRED's November issue, said during a lengthy interview with Joi Ito of MIT's Media Lab and Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich. "It's not like that at all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

One in four people on Earth use Facebook to connect with friends and family. But Mark Zuckerberg and company really want all those people to use the social network for office chatter, too. This morning, at an event in London, the company formally released Facebook Workplace, a service designed specifically for business communication. It first unveiled the service-originally called Facebook for Work-eighteen months ago, testing it with many businesses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices