Silicon Valley is coming to terms with the impacts of some of its inventions, which are not always in line with the techno-optimistic vision that the industry offered the world 25 years ago, when ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools will create "superhuman workers" who will be able to do more with new technology, Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun said. "AI is a tool and what AI can do really ...

Sebastian Thrun, a pioneer in the self-driving industry, looks at Waymo like a proud dad. Nearly 20 years ago, Thrun and his team at Stanford University made a pivotal leap in autonomous driving after ...

Flying cars could be in air space within five years, Sebastian Thrun, the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a company backed Alphabet Chief Executive Larry Page, told CNBC. Thrun said flying cars are in the "science ...

In the months leading up to the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, Sebastian Thrun, the head of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab, could not know whether his team's robotic vehicle, nicknamed ...

Udacity seemed to stumble last month when it restructured and laid off about 20% of its workforce. But founder, executive chairman and interim CEO Sebastian Thrun tells Business Insider that the ...

Yesterday, news broke that Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford University researcher and one of the professors for last fall's wildly popular online Artificial Intelligence class, was leaving his tenured ...

Massively open online course (MOOC) provider Udacity today announced that cofounder Sebastian Thrun is stepping down from the chief executive position and is being replaced by Vish Makhijani, who has ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) — distance-learning courses open to an unlimited number of people on the web — are estimated to become an $8.5 billion industry by 2020, up from almost $2 billion ...

“I’m a fighter. I believe in our people, I believe in our mission, and I believe that it should exist and must exist.” Sebastian Thrun is talking animatedly about Udacity, the $1 billion online ...