Sean Captain

Employees at Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies are discovering their power to bend the trajectory of multibillion-dollar corporations. (Fast Company)

Unity’s AI boss Danny Lange explains how the Google sibling will use reinforcement learning and virtual worlds to “evolve” smarter algorithms. (Read on Fast Company)

Web companies and browser makers are rolling out encryption that can obscure the identity of many–though not yet all–of the websites you visit. (Read more on Fast Company.)

In launching its own online service, the Berkeley-based upstart Rigetti aspires to be the Amazon of cloud-based quantum computing. (Read on Fast Company)

Grab-and-go convenience comes to a full-scale market in a challenging part of town. (Read more on Fast Company)

It’s been a tough fight, with one near-fatal stumble, but California’s assembly just passed what are undoubtedly the strictest protections for net neutrality in the country–if not the world. (Fast Company)

Starting with an emergency dispatch service, a new startup aims to gradually develop technologies required to become the Uber of autonomous flight. (Fast Company)

The venerable camera brand aims for a comeback by adopting rival Sony’s strategy. (Fast Company)

A Bay Area startup has launched a small public demo in San Francisco that will grow into a full-sized AI-driven convenience store in the coming months. (Read on Fast Company)

San Francisco, East Palo Alto, and Google’s home of Mountain View are each putting housing assistance proposals on the November ballot. (Fast Company)