(Wall Street Journal) – AI and deep-pocketed billionaires are amping up interest in hardware in a new way

The world is on fire, and that’s giving some of the richest men the audacity of hope. 

Hope that their billions, brains and brashness can usher in a new world filled with robot cars, killer drones and solar power. In other words: hard tech.

These sci-fi dreams—made popular by Elon Musk—have been building for some time. But they have become harder to ignore in the past month, with gambits from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey and Daniel Ek. (Read More)