This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 9th)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Exclusive: Why Microsoft Is Betting Its Future on AI Casey Newton | The Verge "Microsoft's historical instincts about where technology is going have been spot-on. But the company has a record of dropping the ball when it comes to acting on that instinct...The question looming over the company's efforts around AI is simple: Why should it it be different this time?" THE FUTURE: Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler's Torch Farhad Manjoo | The New...