Author: Ben Dickson

Self-driving car startup Cruise has received more than $2 billion in a new round of investment from Microsoft, General Motors, Honda, and institutional investors, according to a joint statement by Cruise, its owner GM, and Microsoft on Tuesday. The investment will bring the valuation of Cruise to $30 billion and make Microsoft an official partner. Per Tuesday’s announcement: “To unlock the potential of cloud computing for self-driving vehicles, Cruise will leverage Azure, Microsoft’s cloud and edge computing platform, to commercialize its unique autonomous vehicle solutions at scale. Microsoft, as Cruise’s preferred cloud provider, will also tap into Cruise’s deep industry expertise [emphasis mine]…

What would an Apple-made self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious plans to roll out its own electric self-driving car by 2024. Apple hasn’t officially confirmed any of the information disclosed in the Reuters reports that broke the news last week. And we are still missing many details on the company’s self-driving plans. Nonetheless, the news is significant, both for Apple and the self-driving car industry. Depending on how the situation unfolds in the next months and years, the fact that there’s a concrete date for Apple’s self-driving car…

This post is part of “AI education”, a series of posts that review and explore educational content on data science and machine learning. With data science and machine learning skills being in high demand, there’s increasing interest in careers in both fields. But with so many educational books, video tutorials and online courses on data science and machine learning, finding the right starting point can be quite confusing. Readers often ask me for advice on the best roadmap for becoming a data scientist. To be frank, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, and it all depends on the skills you already have. In…