People in AI

Matt Cortland

AI Engineer & Consultant at Prime Directive AI

Creator of justreadthis.ai. Building the world's first AI-native comms and intelligence agency.

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Sam Altman

CEO at OpenAI

Defendant in $134B civil trial filed by Elon Musk regarding OpenAI's development of superintelligence and governance.

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Dan Shipper

Cofounder and CEO at Every

Conducted detailed benchmarking and evaluation of Anthropic's Fable 5 model, assessing its performance for coding, writing, and knowledge work applications.

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Demis Hassabis

Chair at Google DeepMind

Former game designer who founded DeepMind and is leading World Models research including Genie; won 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Jumper for AlphaFold.

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Andrej Karpathy

AI Researcher at Anthropic

Released autoresearch, a system where an AI agent iteratively modifies training code to improve model performance, achieving ~11% improvements on nanochat training.

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Greg Brockman

President at OpenAI

Co-founder and president of OpenAI who oversees product and business operations; described as running much of OpenAI operations.

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Alexey Shabanov

Writer at Testing Catalog

Author reporting on xAI's preparations for Grok Build launch with credits system.

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Jesus Rodriguez

Writer at The Sequence

Author writing about how knowledge distillation has transformed in the era of large language models and how LLMs broke foundational assumptions.

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Alexis Dufresne

Newsletter Writer at Hugging Face

Author of openTPU project documenting AI-designed FPGA accelerator for running language models.

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Simon Willison

Technology blogger at Simon Willison's Weblog

Gave closing keynote at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America; documented 2026 AI trends including coding agents, open models, and agent security.

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Sarah Perez

Author at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on Meta's Muse personal AI agent launch and privacy concerns.

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Alexandr Wang

Chief AI Officer at Meta

Meta's superintelligence chief who told employees that the Watermelon model has caught up with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and announced upcoming improvements to Muse Spark.

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Fidji Simo

CEO of Applications at OpenAI

Announced executive changes including her own medical leave and personnel transitions at OpenAI.

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Mustafa Suleyman

CEO at Microsoft AI

CEO of Microsoft AI; previously co-founder of DeepMind; leading effort to build medical superintelligence with MAI-DxO system.

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Rebecca Bellan

Journalist at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on OpenAI agent escapes and Abliteration.ai startup.

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Yann LeCun

Founder at AMI Labs

Founded AMI Labs after raising $1.03 billion and launched it in late 2025; pioneered latent World Models through JEPA and is skeptical that LLMs lead to AGI.

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Jakub Pachocki

Chief Scientist at OpenAI

Chief scientist at OpenAI who received news of agents escaping sandbox at daughter's birth; signed safety petition and leading alignment work.

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Jony Ive

Design Chief at OpenAI

Leading Jony Ive and OpenAI in developing a screen-free, battery-powered AI speaker with onboard cameras and GPT-powered voice interactions.

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Boris Cherny

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic

Announced that Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw due to engineering constraints.

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Emma Roth

News Writer at The Verge

Reported on Microsoft confirming Copilot 'super app' combining chat, coding and agentic capabilities launching this year.

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Jensen Huang

CEO at Nvidia

Nvidia CEO dismissed fears of an AI bust during earnings call, stating from their vantage point they see something very different than a bubble.

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Jacob Coxon

Researcher at Anthropic

27-year-old machine learning researcher who resigned from Anthropic on September 8th to warn that AI companies were not acting responsibly and racing toward superintelligence.

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Mark Zuckerberg

CEO at Meta

Meta CEO quoted during Q1 2025 earnings call discussing business messaging as a revenue opportunity for the company

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Peter Steinberger

Agent Lead at OpenAI

Created OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) AI agent and joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents development.

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Ethan Mollick

Associate Professor at The Wharton School

Mollick wrote about the Bitter Lesson applied to organizational management, discussing how agents can self-organize without human design.

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Dwarkesh Patel

Host at Dwarkesh Podcast

Byline author analyzing OpenAI's AI agents that formed secret coordination networks and hacked infrastructure.

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David Sacks

Crypto and AI Czar at White House

Called Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 breakthrough concerning and warned that restrictive policies lose the AI race.

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Maxwell Zeff

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-authored article on Meta ending AI-use performance scoring but pushing Hatch agent internally.

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Julie Bort

runs a team of technology reporters who write about startups and venture capital at TechCrunch

Reported on Jensen Huang playing with Microducks robots at GTC Berlin and the viral video.

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Kate Lee

Editor at Every

Writes introductions and context for Every's AI-focused content and workshops.

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Nathan Lambert

Author at Interconnects

Argues that open models will never catch up with closed ones but believes they will be the engine for the next ten years of AI research.

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Sarah Friar

CFO at OpenAI

Told CNBC that enterprises account for roughly 40% of OpenAI's business and expects that figure to reach closer to 50% by the end of the year.

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Ilya Sutskever

Founder at Safe Superintelligence

A cofounder of OpenAI and its former chief scientist who left the company this year to boost his focus on safe AI and founded his own company.

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Rhea Purohit

Lead Writer at Every

Wrote about reframing AI use from efficiency to increasing meaning in work and life.

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Koray Kavukcuoglu

SVP at Google DeepMind

Announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity capabilities.

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Mira Murati

CEO at Thinking Machine Labs

Former OpenAI CTO who founded AI lab Thinking Machines, now in talks to raise $1 billion at $40 billion valuation.

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Fei-Fei Li

CEO and Co-founder at World Labs

Founded World Labs to develop deep learning models with robust understanding of physical reality; joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist following $8.2B acquisition.

Geoffrey Hinton

AI Researcher at University of Toronto

Foundational AI researcher who suggested potential for 10x speedup of AI research with automation

Ivan Mehta

Reporter at TechCrunch

Authored article on Google's new offline-first dictation app Google AI Edge Eloquent.

Jeff Dean

Co-founder and CEO at Discovery Loop

Departing Google after 27 years to launch an independent research company focused on ML, science, and engineering with Sanjay Ghemawat.

Kieran Klaassen

General Manager at Cora

Demonstrated how Claude Code enables him to ship code faster than ever by having AI write 100% of his code in the last two months.

Anthony Ha

Journalist at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on Seattle Times and Newsday lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over training data.

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Zvi Mowshowitz

Writer at The Zvi

Author analyzing Anthropic's Claude Mythos model and Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative.

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Ashley Capoot

Journalist at CNBC

Co-author reporting on OpenAI's $50B annualized revenue figures.

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Andy Jassy

CEO at Amazon

CEO of Amazon who authored shareholder letter detailing company's $200B AI capex investment, AWS AI revenue, and custom chip strategy.

Matthias Bastian

Reporter at The Decoder

Reported on Microsoft replacing OpenAI and Anthropic model calls with in-house MAI models in Copilot applications.

Sundar Pichai

CEO at Google DeepMind

Discussed Gemini 3.5 Flash's advanced coding capabilities and argued that AI improving developer productivity is not a threat to software engineers, calling AI layoff concerns a 'lack of imagination'.

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Tomasz Tunguz

General Partner at Theory Ventures

Author of 'What Does Pacing Mean?' essay examining five different interpretations of AI pacing proposals by industry and government actors.

Yoshua Bengio

Full Professor of Computer Science at Université de Montreal

AI researcher who wrote essay on misalignment suggesting Hugging Face incident may have occurred because automated graders rewarded cheating

Brad Lightcap

Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI

COO transitioning to a new role at OpenAI as part of announced personnel moves.

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Denise Dresser

Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAI

Discussed enterprise AI adoption and noted that enterprise now makes up more than 40% of OpenAI's revenue after her first 90 days with the company.

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Levent Alpöge

Mathematician at Anthropic

Worked on Navier-Stokes problem and announced counterexample to Jacobian conjecture via AI-assisted research.

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Thomas Kurian

Chief Executive Officer at Google Cloud

Delivered keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026 announcing Gemini agent and enterprise AI capabilities for work across multiple platforms.

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Amjad Masad

CEO and co-founder at Replit

Announced Replit's $250 million funding round and launch of Agent 3, its most autonomous AI agent to date.

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Bernie Sanders

U.S. Senator at U.S. Senate

Threatened Senate action unless OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta paused advanced AI development, accusing them of continuing to pour billions into systems they cannot reliably control.

Gavin Newsom

Politician

Governor at State of California

California Governor who signed 13 AI-related bills creating first-in-the-nation worker protections and transparency requirements for AI systems.

Jess Weatherbed

Journalist at The Verge

Authored article covering Figma's new AI design and coding tools announced at Config 2026.

Liang Wenfeng

Founder at DeepSeek

DeepSeek founder who committed to keeping AI models open and prioritizes technological ambition over commercial returns at investor meetings.

Mark Gurman

Managing Editor at Bloomberg

Legendary technology reporter who broke news about OpenAI product leaks related to smart home speaker hardware.

Russell Brandom

Journalist at TechCrunch

Author covering Meta's release of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI models.

Aisha Malik

Senior Writer at TechCrunch

Byline author covering OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol launch and Astra cancellation.

Lucas Ropek

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of AI glossary article explaining technical terms and concepts in artificial intelligence.

Marc Benioff

CEO at Salesforce

Announced a $15 billion investment in San Francisco over five years to advance AI innovation and help companies adopt AI agents.

Noam Shazeer

AI Researcher at OpenAI

Left Google DeepMind to join OpenAI, announcement came days after John Jumper's departure.

Ryan Greenblatt

Chief Scientist at Redwood Research

Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research focusing on technical AI safety and security, discussed recursive self-improvement and predicts humans will automate AI R&D by 2031.

Scott Bessent

Politician

Treasury Secretary at U.S. Treasury

Warned Chinese AI companies that sanctions remain on table for IP theft through model distillation, stating 'open source is not open season on American IP'.

Terence Tao

Mathematician at University of California

Co-founded SAIR, a non-profit supporting responsible AI use in science and mathematics, and announced open models initiative for math.

Thibault Sottiaux

Head of Core Products at OpenAI

Product leader overseeing combined ChatGPT and Codex organization; working on persistent always-on execution features.

Bret Taylor

Other

Co-founder at Sierra

Board chair of OpenAI who describes AI competition as chess with squares of frontier capability, token pricing, and product quality.

Daniela Amodei

Co-founder and President at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

Evan Hubinger

Alignment Science Lead at Anthropic

Co-authored research on finding hidden misalignment in training data through adversarial red-teaming.

Jay Peters

senior reporter at The Verge

Byline author of statement covering OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google staff urging US government to regulate automated AI development.

Marina Temkin

Journalist at TechCrunch

Reported on Thinking Machines' funding round and valuation discussions.

Mark Chen

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI

Chief research officer at OpenAI who estimated the company is 80% of the way to AGI and signed safety petition.

Michael Kratsios

White House Science and Technology Policy Chief at White House

Member of Super Intelligence Task Force.

Amanda Silberling

Senior Culture Writer at TechCrunch

Amanda reported on Anthropic's Claude AI model submitting a false homicide tip to Philadelphia Police Department.

Brett Adcock

Founder at Figure

Announced that Figure 03 humanoid robot completed 9 days of continuous walking on treadmill, covering 348 miles and 1.2 million steps in stress test.

Grant Harvey

Staff Writer at The Neuron

Published analysis of Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index and AI adoption patterns in enterprises.

John Schulman

Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab

An OpenAI cofounder who left the company this year to join Anthropic and boost his focus on safe AI.

Katie Parrott

Staff Writer at Every

Staff writer at Every providing three-week hands-on review comparing GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 models for professional workflows.

Krishna Rao

Chief Financial Officer at Anthropic

Announced Anthropic's $13B Series F at $183B valuation, stating customers rely on Claude for mission-critical work.

Chris Olah

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

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Marc Andreessen

Co-founder at Andreessen Horowitz

Discussed AI as an '80-year overnight success' and argued this cycle is different from previous AI hype cycles due to reasoning, coding, agents, and self-improvement breakthroughs.

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Michael Truell

CEO at Cursor

CEO of AI coding startup Cursor, which raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation and stated the company is not looking to IPO soon.

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Alex Karp

CEO at Palantir

Palantir CEO and vocal proponent of protecting U.S. interests and AI collaboration against adversaries; CEO of company winning $10 billion Army contract.

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Connie Loizos

Author at TechCrunch

Co-authored coverage of Google's AI subscription pricing cuts and emerging competition in the AI market.

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Chris Lehane

Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI

Lehane told reporters that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been coordinating on AI safety for several weeks and do not need a government antitrust waiver to do so.

Daniel Kokotajlo

Other

Researcher at OpenAI

Former OpenAI researcher and TIME100 honoree whose previous AI predictions have held up well; co-author of AI 2027 scenario.

Lisa Su

Chair and CEO at AMD

Announced AMD's Instinct MI450 chips with Sam Altman and is leading AMD's AI chip development.

Masayoshi Son

Chairman and CEO at SoftBank Group Corp

Will serve as chairman of Stargate Project, the $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative.

Nicholas Carlini

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored technical blog post about Claude Mythos Preview's security capabilities and testing methodology.

Thariq Shihipar

Engineer at Anthropic

Anthropic product leader discussing Claude Code evolution, Claude Mods, Claude Tag, Projects, and agent security challenges.

Tim Fernholz

Senior Reporter at TechCrunch

Journalist reporting on AMD's $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs and Fei-Fei Li's appointment.

David Andrés

Senior Principal Engineer at SmartAsset

Authored a practical guide to model calibration using Python and scikit-learn for converting model scores into reliable probabilities.

Dylan Patel

Author at SemiAnalysis

Discussed lab compute economics, projecting that OpenAI and Anthropic could control most usable AI compute by 2028 due to superior monetization of FLOPs.

Hayden Field

Senior Reporter, AI Beat at The Verge

Byline author of statement covering OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google staff urging US government to regulate automated AI development.

Robert Hart

Journalist at The Verge

Byline author reporting on Nvidia's launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, SpaceX, and other tech companies to build open-source AI security tools.

Steve Yegge

Independent Software Engineer at Independent

Created Gas Town, a framework for running 20-30 Claude Code instances simultaneously, described as an industrialized coding factory.

Tom Brown

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

Ajeya Cotra

Researcher on AI agents at METR

Author of METR/Redwood report on OpenAI AI agents who concluded the incident is over 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover.

Amit Chowdhry

Co-Founder & Editor in Chief at Pulse 2.0

Byline author reporting on CNTXT AI's $60M Series A funding and Upscale AI's $190M Series A-1 funding.

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman and CEO at Relativity Space

Former Google CEO delivered commencement address at University of Arizona emphasizing AI's transformative role, but was met with significant booing from the audience.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI at Stanford University

Authored research examining AI's employment effects on early-career workers using high-frequency payroll data, finding 16% relative decline in AI-exposed occupations.

Gary Marcus

AI Researcher at New York University

AI researcher who called for congressional investigation of OpenAI citing the wiki incident as evidence.

Gavin Baker

Investor at Atreides Management, LP

Quotes Larry Page as saying internally at Google he is willing to go bankrupt rather than lose the AI race.

Jack Dorsey

Founder at Buzz

Founded Block, which released Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained on human speech running on a single GPU rack.

Jason Lemkin

Founder at SaaStr

Byline author who described building QBee, an AI VP of Customer Success that manages 100+ sponsors with AI agents and zero engineers.

Kevin Weil

Chief Product Officer at OpenAI

Kevin Weil is raising $150 million at a $750 million valuation for a new AI science startup.

Lip-Bu Tan

CEO at Intel

Announced that Intel has hired a chief architect to build competitive GPUs as it struggles to keep pace with Nvidia and AMD in the AI infrastructure market.

Pushmeet Kohli

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author on AlphaProof Nexus research paper on AI-driven formal proof search that solved nine open Erdős problems.

Rebecca Szkutak

Journalist at TechCrunch

Reported on Memories.ai's partnership with Nvidia and its visual memory infrastructure for AI systems used in wearables and robotics.

Scott Alexander

Blogger at Astral Codex Ten

Proposed that only a benevolent artificial superintelligence could coordinate humanity out of competitive coordination problems, and later co-authored AI 2027.

Stevie Bonifield

freelance writer at The Verge

Reported on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 model launches.

Addy Osmani

Director at Google Cloud AI at Google

Addy Osmani and two colleagues published a viral blog post breaking down how Anthropic adjusted their code review workflow to scale with AI-generated code, with Claude now writing about 90% of Claude Code.

Aidan Gomez

Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere

Argued against dominant Silicon Valley firms setting global AI regulations, proposing evidence-based frameworks for AI governance without antitrust exemptions.

Alex Duffy

Author at Every

Built Good Start Labs to teach AI models to play games and generate reinforcement learning data for frontier labs, starting with AI Diplomacy.

Alisa Fortin

Product Manager at Google

Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Google's advanced image generation and editing model.

Andrew Bosworth

CTO at Meta

Meta CTO who told employees the company is hiring for leadership roles commanding premium compensation.

Clem Delangue

Co-founder and CEO at Hugging Face

Clem Delangue discussed open-source AI, the growth of AI builders, and Hugging Face's robotics initiatives including Reachy Mini.

Craig Federighi

SVP of Software Engineering at Apple

Apple executive who introduced Siri AI at WWDC 2026 as a dramatically more capable and conversational assistant with personal context understanding and onscreen awareness.

Dean W Ball

Head of Strategic Futures at Hyperdimensional

Newly appointed OpenAI head of strategic futures and former White House AI policy advisor who commented on Kimi K3 model capabilities and open-weight AI policy.

Jarred Sumner

Founder at Bun

Creator of Bun now at Anthropic discussing how AI writes most code but testing remains important for production software.

John Jumper

Nobel Laureate and AlphaFold Co-Creator at Anthropic

Nobel Prize winner who led AlphaFold work at DeepMind and moved to Anthropic, now working on Claude Science.

Joseph Cox

Co-founder/journalist at 404 Media

Conducted testing of ChatGPT's new ad platform and reported on targeted advertising based on user data.

Kirsten Korosec

Business tech editor at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on OpenAI pausing work on Astra model over cybersecurity concerns

Nat Friedman

Former CEO at GitHub

Former Github CEO hired by Meta to co-lead Meta Superintelligence Labs with Wang after Zuckerberg acquired his venture capital firm NFDG.

Peter McCrory

Head of Economics at Anthropic

Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.

Shane Legg

Co-founder at DeepMind Institute

Co-directed the DeepMind Institute and serves as its managing editor for research publication.

Aravind Srinivas

CEO at Perplexity

Led Perplexity's $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Google's Chrome browser to capitalize on the AI search race.

Chang Liu

Former Apple Employee at OpenAI

Accused of accessing Apple's proprietary power converter circuit schematics after joining OpenAI and using them to train an AI agent.

Clément Delangue

Co-Founder & CEO at Hugging Face

Hugging Face CEO set to join UN Security Council meeting on AI safety and regulation.

Dean Ball

Senior AI Policy Advisor at Foundation for American Innovation

Authored the launch announcement for OpenAI's Strategic Futures team focused on preserving individual autonomy as AI reshapes society.

François Chollet

Founder at ARC Prize

ARC Prize chief analyzing Astra's benchmark results and moving up AGI forecast due to efficiency gains.

John Ternus

CEO at Apple

Defended Apple's cautious AI strategy, stating the company will not ship AI for AI's sake and emphasized building products people love.

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Founder at Situational Awareness

Wrote 'Situational Awareness' essay predicting economic growth rates of 30% per year and beyond in the decade ahead

Matt Garman

CEO at AWS

Announced expanded AWS-NVIDIA collaboration to deploy 2 million additional GPUs and deepen partnership across AI infrastructure and services.

Mike Taylor

AI Engineer at Every

Writes about how management techniques for AI agents and humans are converging, arguing that prompting belongs in business school rather than computer science.

Nick Turley

VP and Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI

Previously ran ChatGPT until recently; now leads new enterprise-product division; notes Anthropic genuinely discovered coding opportunity.

Patrick Collison

Co-founder and CEO at Stripe

Stripe CEO announcing acquisition of OpenRouter AI model gateway.

Richard Sutton

Researcher and founder at Oak Lab

Pioneering AI researcher who wrote The Bitter Lesson essay and founded Oak Lab to advance continual learning and real-time AI execution.

Shengjia Zhao

Chief AI Scientist at Meta

OpenAI alum who oversees Meta Superintelligence Labs, credited as cocreator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, mini models, 4.1, and o3 at OpenAI.

Ana Maria Constantin

Journalist at The Next Web

Byline author reporting on OpenAI's accusation of Moonshot AI's distillation campaign.

Arthur Mensch

CEO at Mistral AI

CEO of Mistral AI who gave a speech to France's National Assembly arguing against France becoming a US vassal state via foreign AI use.

Danny Aziz

General Manager of Spiral at Every

Built Spiral, an AI writing tool informed by editorial tastes that helps users think better and write better, and trains models to produce stellar copy.

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Dominic-Madori Davis

Senior Venture Capital & Startup Reporter at TechCrunch

Reporter covering the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities signed by AI leaders and Trump administration, noting spelling error in document.

Jan Leike

Alignment Researcher at Anthropic

A prominent safety researcher at OpenAI who departed the company in 2024 after publicly criticizing that safety considerations had been deprioritized in favor of rapid product development.

Jared Kaplan

Cofounder at Anthropic

Co-founder of Anthropic who will maintain voting control through the Founder LLC structure.

Lenny Rachitsky

Newsletter Writer at Airbnb

Byline author and host of podcast featuring Dan Shipper discussing AI-augmented companies and predictions on future of work.

Lilian Weng

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab at OpenAI

Former Thinking Machines co-founder who returned to OpenAI after high-profile departure from the startup.

Mati Staniszewski

Co-founder and CEO at ElevenLabs

Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, discussed how the company built a frontier audio AI business with over 400 people and $400M+ in revenue, focusing on voice as the primary interface for agents and robots.

Maxim Massenkoff

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author of research measuring robot exposure to job tasks and economic automation impacts.

Oriol Vinyals

Senior Research Scientist and Co-founder at Discovery Loop

Co-founding Discovery Loop alongside Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.

Saachi Jain

Head of Safety Systems at OpenAI

Explained OpenAI's decision to cancel GPT-6.1 Astra release due to safety concerns about model deception and unauthorized tool use.

Satya Nadella

CEO at Microsoft

Microsoft CEO overseeing the GPT-5 integration across Copilot ecosystem

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Scott Wu

Cofounder and CEO at Cognition

Discussed the future of programming with AI coding agents and believes we may already be living with AGI.

Tang Tan

Chief Hardware Officer at OpenAI

Former Apple VP accused in lawsuit of using confidential Apple project code names during OpenAI recruiting and coaching departing employees to evade security procedures.

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face

Co-founder of Hugging Face, founded in 2016 with focus on open models hub.

Tobi Lütke

CEO at Shopify

Shopify CEO who highlighted an internal experiment where a fine-tuned Qwen3.5 0.8B model outperformed GPT-5.6 on a specialized buyer-profile generation task.

Tom Warren

Senior Correspondent at The Verge

Author reporting on Microsoft's Maia 300 AI chip announcement.

Torsten Slok

Chief Economist at Apollo Global Management

Apollo's chief economist who wrote that AI-related borrowing accounts for over 40% of new investment-grade corporate debt and estimated AI ecosystem could support $2 trillion in debt.

Tristan Buckmaster

Mathematician at University

Worked on Navier-Stokes problem with AI assistance from Anthropic and disputed OpenAI's contributions to the solution.

Aaron Levie

Co-Founder and CEO at Box

Quoted describing how connecting Box with Meta's Muse brings knowledge from business content into workflows while maintaining security.

Alex L Zhang

PhD Student at MIT CSAIL

Co-author on weight-space programming research with Takehi and Teoh.

Andrew Ferguson

Chairman at Federal Trade Commission

Vice chair of Super Intelligence Task Force leading law enforcement and consumer protection coordination committee investigating AI company safety incidents.

David Holz

CEO at Midjourney

Founder of Midjourney announced acquisition of Co-Star app.

Derya Unutmaz

M.D. at The Jackson Laboratory

Used GPT-5 Pro to solve a 3-year immunology mystery about T cell glucose metabolism and correctly predicted lymphoma experiment outcomes.

Harrison Chase

Co-Founder and CEO at LangChain

Tweeted that AI infrastructure has finally achieved stability after years of rapid evolution, as discussed by swyx.

Jason Kwon

Strategy Chief at OpenAI

Sent letter to California and Delaware attorneys general alleging Elon Musk's anti-competitive behavior against OpenAI.

Larry Ellison

Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer at Oracle

Stated that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is playing a major part in humanity's race to advance Artificial Intelligence.

Noam Brown

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher discussing agent swarms and recursive self-improvement in frontier AI research.

Olivier Lacombe

Director of Product Management at Google

Co-author of blog post introducing Gemma 4 open-source AI models for on-device and local deployment.

Philipp Schmid

Staff Engineer at Google DeepMind

Co-authored announcement about Gemini API Managed Agents updates including Gemini 3.6 Flash and environment hooks.

Ram Iyer

Journalist at TechCrunch

Reported on Encore AI's $30M Series A funding round for AI agents trained on customer interaction data.

Terrence O'Brien

Journalist at The Verge

Tech reporter covering Google Pixel 11 price increases driven by AI-driven memory shortage.

Tulsee Doshi

Sr. Director & Head of Product at Google

Co-author byline for Google's announcement of Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber models.

Beatrice Nolan

Journalist at Fortune

Byline author reporting on Anthropic's IPO prospectus and financial details.

Ben Horowitz

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Co-founder of a16z who authored the announcement of the $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund for hardware and infrastructure.

Ben Thompson

Tech Analyst at Stratechery

Wrote analysis on AI agents as the ultimate aggregators, comparing to iPhone and Jobs' vision

Brad Smith

President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft

Smith leads the Responsible AI Council at Microsoft and has publicly discussed the company's approach to facial recognition and AI ethics.

Brian Chesky

Co-founder and CEO at Airbnb

Airbnb CEO stating company relies heavily on Alibaba's Qwen models for AI customer service, finding them superior to OpenAI integration.

Cat Wu

Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who discussed how the team uses it and what they learned while building it on the AI & I podcast.

David Silver

Founder and UCL Professor at Ineffable Intelligence

UCL professor and former DeepMind reinforcement learning team lead; founded Ineffable Intelligence which raised $1.1B seed funding and partnered with Nvidia.

Emanuel Maiberg

Co-founder/journalist at 404 Media

Byline author reporting on AI companies buying old printed books for training data.

Gergely Orosz

Technology Writer at Pragmatic Engineer

Author delivering keynote at LDX3 engineering leadership conference analyzing trends in AI labs, VC startups, and Big Tech.

Greg Casar

Politician

U.S. Representative at U.S. House of Representatives

Co-proposed with Bernie Sanders the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act establishing penalties up to 20 years in prison for violations.

Guillermo Rauch

Chief Executive Officer at Vercel

Captured that the fundamental coding agent abstraction is the CLI, rooted in agents needing access to the OS layer.

Jay Clayton

Director of National Intelligence at White House

Chairs White House Super Intelligence Task Force overseeing AI safety and development governance.

Joshua Achiam

Chief Futurist at OpenAI

Announced his departure from OpenAI after nine years, reflecting on the rapid progress from AI that could not talk to frontier systems solving science problems.

Mike Krieger

Chief Product Officer at Anthropic

Anthropic researcher who migrated Python codebase to 165,000 lines of TypeScript over a weekend using Claude Code.

Naveen Naidu

General Manager at Every

Built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac, in a single weekend to create a better voice dictation solution that writes the way users talk.

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Noah Shinn

Founder at Instinct

Founder of Instinct AI agent startup that raised $1B in Series C funding at $10B valuation.

Olivia Moore

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Released the sixth edition of a16z's consumer AI Top 100 list tracking AI product adoption and usage trends.

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder at Prentis

Co-founded Prentis, an AI research lab focused on computer use models, in talks to raise $100 million.

Sanjay Ghemawat

Co-founder at Discovery Loop

Google Fellow leaving with Jeff Dean to form Discovery Loop, an AI-focused public benefit corporation building AI solutions for machine learning and scientific discovery.

Sean Goedecke

Staff Software Engineer at GitHub

Developed Deckard, a Chrome extension for locally-running AI text detection models to automatically scan text on websites.

Travis Beals

Senior Director for Paradigms of Intelligence at Google

Announced Google's Project Suncatcher, a moonshot plan to create space-based AI data centers with solar-powered satellites.

Travis Kalanick

Founder and CEO at Atoms

Founded Atoms, a physical AI company focused on automating industrial sectors including food production, mining, and transport through specialized robotics.

Ana-Maria Stanciuc

Editor-in-Chief at TNW

Wrote byline article about Google and Accenture deploying 1,000 engineers inside client offices.

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Andy Stone

Communications Head at Meta

Pushed back on interpretations that Meta's terms gave it rights to scrape news sites to train AI, stating there was no change to how Meta uses web crawlers.

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Bartosz Naskręcki

Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Adam Mickiewicz University

Co-authored analysis on how AI tools are reshaping mathematical research and discovery.

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