People in AI

Co-authored announcement of Lyria 3 music generation feature for Gemini.

Samsara CPO who participated in discussions about Agent Studio and the company's physical operations AI strategy.

CEO of Niantic Spatial who explains that training data from Pokémon Go players solving the same positioning problem helps delivery robots navigate city streets.

NextEra CEO overseeing acquisition of Dominion Energy in $66.8 billion deal to meet growing data center electricity demand from AI.

Chairman of ASUS describing the company's RTX Spark-powered systems as defining the future of personal computing.

Google Spokesperson responding to Penske's lawsuit, defending AI Overviews as beneficial to users and content discovery.

Butterfly Network CEO who discussed the collaboration with Midjourney on ultrasound-on-chip technology for full-body imaging.

Highlighted need for workforce reskilling with humans evolving into 'managers of agents' focusing on strategy and high-value problem-solving.

Signed a statement with other AI industry leaders calling for government regulation of automated AI development.

Josh Weisberg

Executive

Senior Vice President of AI at Zillow

Speaker at Fireworks Forge event.

Julie Farago wrote about Google's AI Mode for search and travel planning capabilities.

Karan Ahuja

Executive

AI Engineer and Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic

Anthropic leader of the Claude Duet product team who uses it to schedule interviews, create prototypes, and ship code.

Anthropic's Head of Americas discussed new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards solution with CNBC.

Accenture leader who discussed the strategic importance of agentic commerce and how the blueprints enable faster deployment and differentiated experiences.

Published internal AI transformation results claiming 20% lift in sales close rates and Copilot licensed to over 200,000 staff.

Leads AI/ML initiatives at JPMorgan Chase, overseeing the EEVE Intelligent Q&A tool used by 80,000+ call center employees.

OpenAI spokesperson who provided deal valuation details

Manager who describes how ChatGPT Enterprise enabled company-wide AI adoption and safe handling of business information.

Kendall Collins

Executive

CEO of Missionforce and Government Cloud at Salesforce

Discussed TSA's Ace AI agent handling 100,000 traveler conversations monthly and resolving 96% without human escalation.

Kevin Ichhpurani, President of Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud, highlighted the partnership bringing Gemini models to Oracle AI Agent Studio.

Quoted describing how Muse connected to Stripe helps small business founders manage customers and payments through natural conversation.

Kris Rasmussen

Executive

Technology Chief at Figma

Figma's technology chief discussing how the MCP server enables AI models to access underlying code in Figma Make files.

Forecast that next year will be the worst year in the industry's history from the supply perspective.

CEO of BlackRock and Chairman of AIP, quoted on the investment's strategic importance for AI infrastructure.

Co-author of announcement about SynthID deployment in Gemini app

Google product manager announced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with advanced voice generation capabilities.

Former Alibaba Qwen team tech lead whose new lab reportedly closed first financing round at $2 billion valuation exploring recursive self-improvement, world models, and embodied AI.

Linda Yaccarino

Executive

Chief Executive Officer at X

Former X CEO summoned as witness in French investigation into platform algorithms and deepfakes.

Featured on Darktrace's advisory board as former Director-General of British security service MI5

Mahesh Thiagarajan

Executive

Executive Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Quoted on Oracle's partnership with OpenAI and expansion of cloud capacity for AI.

Told CNBC there is 'much more demand than we're able to fill' for compute and noted a shift toward valuemaxxing over tokenmaxxing.

He described the AI infrastructure buildout as one of the most significant investment opportunities and announced SoftBank's acquisition of his company.

CIO at Goldman Sachs who stated that 2025 saw the biggest changes in technology in his 40-year career.

Marco da Silva quoted on using Gemini Robotics ER 2 for video-based inspection capabilities with Spot robots.

CEO of industry group backing authors' lawsuit; criticized judge's understanding of publishing industry and defended class action resolution approach.

Mariano Cocirio

Executive

Google DeepMind

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

Highlighted AMD's experience with Azure HX for scaling complex EDA workloads and excitement about Azure HXv2.

Mozilla President building a 'rebel alliance' of tech startups and developers to make AI more trustworthy and check the power of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Chief strategist commenting on China-India relations and U.S. influence in multipolarity

Kish explained Twitch's opt-out process for generative AI training and acknowledged user concerns.

CEO of Authors Guild attending the settlement hearing alongside other publishing group leaders.

Matt Clifford

Executive

Head of International Affairs at Anthropic

Stepping down as chair of ARIA to become head of Anthropic's international government affairs, raising conflict-of-interest concerns.

Head of AI policy at a16z who argues state AI bills may violate the Commerce Clause.

Explains how Darktrace's Autonomous Response technology counters increasing cyber threats using self-learning AI

Megan Li

Executive

Senior product manager at Google Labs

Senior product manager at Google Labs discussing unexpected sophistication of user-created Opal apps and rationale for global expansion.

Micah Hill-Smith

Executive

CEO at Artificial Analysis

Signed a public letter calling for independent safety evaluations.

Co-announced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform providing comprehensive foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI agents.

Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy; JPMC deployed an AI tool mimicking his expertise for instant strategic guidance

Pitney Bowes representative who discussed value of Samsara's open APIs and track-and-trace data integration.

Michael Moore

Executive

Head of Cybersecurity Products and Capabilities at Anthropic

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

Expanding access to NVIDIA accelerated computing through Latitude.sh subsidiary to support AI enterprises.

Led collaboration with OpenAI on designing Astra for Law with rigorous governance and oversight.

Posted on LinkedIn about 'significant reduction in force' affecting senior engineers, architects, and specialists.

Author of "Google Updates Gemini App With Personalization From Past Chats And New Temporary Chat Privacy Option"

Led Sony AI's development of Ace robot for physical AI and human-robot interaction in table tennis competition.

Transitioned from COO role to become a board member during Brex restructuring.

Nobel Prize winner in Physics for quantum research, leads Google's quantum efforts

Mike Doustdar

Executive

President and CEO at Novo Nordisk

Mike Doustdar, CEO of Novo Nordisk, announced a collaboration with Anthropic to accelerate drug discovery using AI-driven tools.

Mike Gesnaldo was recently named Chief Revenue Officer of HiddenLayer.

Mike Minton

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Twitch

Explained that Twitch uses default opt-in for AI training because opt-in would result in no participation.

NVIDIA VP presenting on world models and Cosmos 3 Edge foundation model for physical AI at SIGGRAPH.

Molly Vorwerck

Executive

Anthropic

Contributed to article on Claude Managed Agents.

Indian billionaire whose Reliance company partnered with Gemini and has repeatedly used aggressive pricing to boost customer base.

Announced Amazon's investment in NEURA Robotics and highlighted AWS infrastructure support for Physical AI deployment.

Nate Gross

Executive

VP of Go-to-Market Strategy in Healthcare at OpenAI

Co-founder of Doximity who joined OpenAI in June to lead go-to-market strategy in healthcare.

Google spokesperson clarifying that headline test is not specific to news but looking at horizontal improvements to titles.

Chair of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust; stated institutions built around AI technology matter as much as technology itself.

Co-creator of the W Framework for quarterly and yearly planning methodology

Former UK Deputy Prime Minister and Meta executive who joined Nscale's Board bringing expertise in technology policy and governance.

Nick Fox

Executive

Senior Vice President of Knowledge and Information at Google

Wrote that AI features in Search send billions of clicks to websites and rejected zero-click narrative in Brussels interview.

Co-author of the BCG study on AI ROI and value generation

Senior VP at Chinese brain-computer interface company BrainCo; unveiled brain-to-robot platform at World AI Conference in Shanghai.

Ofer Klein is co-founder and CEO of Reco, which raised $55 million in Series C funding for AI-agent security solutions.

Discussed Meta's partnership with Nvidia in making multiplane fabrics operationally scalable for AI infrastructure.

Pat Opet

Executive

Chief Information Security Officer at JPMorganChase

Pat Opet discussed JPMorgan Chase's participation in Project Glasswing to evaluate AI tools for defensive cybersecurity.

Paul Prager

Executive

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at TeraWulf

CEO of TeraWulf who announced the $19 billion, 20-year lease deal with Anthropic for AI data center capacity.

Quoted discussing OpenAI's Stargate expansion to Wisconsin and infrastructure investment for AI.

Explained how Claude can reason through risk positions and deliver automated recommendations for Millennium's risk managers.

Leads much of Amazon's AI infrastructure expansion; confirmed AWS machine-learning business is hugely free cash flow negative.

Discussed Stack Overflow's transformation into an AI data provider and content deals with AI labs worth over $200 million.

Rachel Holland

Executive

Spokesperson at Meta

Meta spokesperson explaining the super PAC's focus on promoting AI progress and parental controls

Raffi Krikorian

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Mozilla

Described the Mozilla State of Open Source AI report as partly advocacy and commented on decision to pay for closed models being workload-specific.

Announced NVIDIA's collaboration with Australian partners to expand AI factory infrastructure with up to 2GW buildout by 2027.

Announced retirement from Microsoft after 35+ years overseeing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows, Office and related teams.

Rakesh Malhotra

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Groq

CPO joining Groq in July with cloud platform and enterprise product leadership background.

Ranjit Bawa

Executive

U.S. Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Deloitte

Discussed deploying Claude AI across Deloitte's 470,000 employees to help advise clients better on AI implementation.

Rayan Krishnan

Executive

CEO at Vals AI

25-year-old co-founder of Vals who previously interned at Palantir and worked at Microsoft and Stanford's AI lab; raised $40M Series A for AI benchmarking platform.

Rhythm Garg

Executive

Co-Founder and CTO at Applied Compute

Co-founder of Applied Compute writing about the company's AI infrastructure platform and future vision.

Legal head of xAI who departed earlier this month

Announced partnership with Suno for AI music creation, calling it a landmark pact that expands revenue and delivers new fan experiences.

Enfabrica CEO hired by Nvidia in September 2024 as part of a $900M talent and IP acquisition deal.

Anthropic VP who announced enterprise-managed authorization for MCP connectors in Claude, streamlining access control for organizations.

Rodrigo Kede Lima

Executive

President of Microsoft Frontier Company at Microsoft

Appointed to lead the newly created Microsoft Frontier Company with 30 years of industry experience in enterprise transformation.

Rohan Sahai

Executive

Sora Product Lead at OpenAI

Listed as product lead for Sora project at OpenAI.

Co-founder of ChronicleBio working on AI-driven drug discovery for chronic diseases.

His former organization was reorganized into the new AGI unit under Peter DeSantis as he is leaving Amazon.

New OpenAI chief economist who is taking over the economics team that formerly reported to Miles Brundage.

Ruben Mayer

Executive

Former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations at Scale AI

Departed Meta after just two months following the Scale AI deal, where he initially helped set up Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Visa CEO pushing to incorporate more AI into company workflow, leading to major layoffs.

Announced strategic collaboration with OpenAI to unlock AI value at scale for enterprise clients.

Emphasized MIT's responsibility to tackle the technological and ethical challenges of generative AI as the technology advances.

Deputy CTO of Microsoft who wrote early Laws of AI Engineering while working with GPT-4, presenting sponsor for AI Engineer World's Fair.

Sanchan Saxena

Executive

Senior Vice President of Teamwork Collaboration at Atlassian

Announced new AI tools including Remix and third-party agents for Confluence to turn data into visual assets and applications.

Executive at UnitedHealth's technology division discussing company's AI training investments and goal to speed up decision-making in health insurance.

Left OpenAI in July after six years leading AI safety teams, departing around same period as other safety-focused leaders.

Samsara CEO who discussed Agent Studio and the company's AI strategy for physical operations during press Q&A.

Chief Marketing Officer explaining the creative rationale and risk-taking behind the AI-generated Super Bowl ad for Svedka

Sara Wiltberger

Executive

Google

Co-author of the article announcing new logs and datasets features in Google AI Studio

Announced Uber's partnership with Wayve to bring autonomous rides to London using Wayve's AI Driver technology.

Announced GPT-Synopsys partnership with OpenAI to build specialist chip design AI model and expand chip design access.

Apple VP who explained how Apple and Nvidia worked together on private cloud compute infrastructure for AI.

Announced Adobe's partnership with Nvidia and Microsoft to rearchitect Premiere and Photoshop for RTX Spark with AI acceleration.

Mastercard executive who discussed the importance of combining AI innovation with trusted payments infrastructure for agentic commerce.

CEO of Superhuman who announced the acquisition of Fathom and highlighted the importance of integrated meeting intelligence for AI productivity.

CTO joining Groq in July with cloud platform and enterprise software experience.

Explained that Tinder's Chemistry feature uses AI to combat swipe fatigue by offering users personalized matches instead of endless swiping.

Confirmed BYD's significant investment in AI and humanoid robots, stating China will be first to see full commercialization.

Quoted on Claude Frontier Academy training engineers to set standards for AI in business.

Managing director of lomarlabs emphasizing that real maritime AI innovation comes from operational testing, not pitch decks.

Confirmed AI infrastructure momentum remains huge with strong demand for advanced chips.

Swami Sivasubramanian

Executive

Vice President, Amazon Web Services at Amazon Web Services

Leads the agentic AI division at AWS, organizing work around small teams of six to eight people.

UNFI safety officer who spoke about the company's experience with Samsara's AI ride-along and coaching tools.

Led lawsuit against Suno AI for training on copyrighted music without licenses; argued AI should not be compared to human learning.

Lütke announced Shopify's partnership with Meta to allow Muse agentic checkout in Shopify stores.

CEO of DHL Group framed the robotics initiative as part of wider operational transformation

Toby Padilla

Executive

Head of MCP at GitHub

Leads GitHub's MCP initiatives and announced the launch of the GitHub MCP Registry for discovering MCP servers.

Y Combinator partner joining Anthropic to work on compute team focusing on hardware bottlenecks for recursive self-improvement.

Announced $11.6 billion multi-year infrastructure deal with Anthropic for AI workload support.

Commented on AMD's acquisition of Taalas and how the technology strengthens AMD's AI portfolio.

Vanessa Lee

Executive

VP Product at Shopify

Shopify VP who discussed building on Anthropic's commerce blueprints with a reference storefront implementation for merchant agents.

Led the security vision for Agent 365, framing agents as digital workers requiring identity, onboarding, and access controls.

Victor Riparbelli

Executive

Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia.io

CEO of UK AI scaleup Synthesia attending the G7 summit on AI innovation and policy.

Vishal Shah

Executive

VP, AI Products at Meta

Vishal Shah at Meta commented on the acquisition of Moltbook and future plans, noting that existing customers can continue using the platform temporarily.

HackerRank CEO discussing Chakra AI interviewer system that evaluates candidates' reasoning and problem-solving.

Vlad Feinberg

Executive

a lead for Gemini pretraining at Google DeepMind

Author of blog post featured in Business Insider about the work ethic required to get a position at frontier AI labs.

CIO at Millennium investment firm who discussed partnership with Anthropic to develop a digital risk analyst using Claude.

Rolls-Royce's predecessor as CEO who is credited with one third of the company's turnaround for 'steadying the ship'

Wassym Bensaid outlined Rivian Unified Intelligence (RUI) and Rivian Assistant, an AI voice companion enabling hands-free control and integration with third-party apps.

Told CNBC that TSMC is seeing a multi-year demand megatrend and committing an additional $100 billion to expand its Arizona chipmaking footprint.

Werner Vogels

Executive

CTO at Amazon

Amazon CTO told Fortune that enterprises are shifting to cheaper open-source AI models because operational costs have become prohibitive.

Introduced the AI assistant 'Bee' designed to learn users' dating preferences and recommend compatible matches through conversational AI.

Will Cathcart

Executive

Head, WhatsApp at WhatsApp

Led WhatsApp for nearly seven years; stepping down to take on a new product-building role at Meta.

Willem Avé

Executive

Head of Product at Square

Square executive who discussed building agentic tools for sellers while maintaining control and trust in the AI systems.

Head of AI governance at DeepSeek who previously participated in panel on AI ethical guardrails in September.

Xander Davies

Executive

Red Team Lead at Anthropic

Researcher who publicly disclosed developing a jailbreak that extracted malicious responses from Fable 5 within hours of access.

Hint CEO previously SVP and GM at Red Ventures, leading home management AI application startup.

Foxconn Chairman Young Liu expressed enthusiasm about the partnership with OpenAI to support infrastructure development.

Alibaba's chief scientist who co-authored AgentEvolver research automating learning policy for self-improving AI through self-questioning, self-navigating, and self-attributing.

Aaron Kwon

Executive

Chief strategy officer at OpenAI

Chief strategy officer who defended OpenAI's subpoenas as routine legal process and denied intimidation tactics.

Will use AI to make lineup and in-game decisions for baseball game via tablet instructions.

Hired as VP of hardware engineering at Google DeepMind, formerly CTO of Boston Dynamics.

CEO of AI platform enabling political campaigns to run bots that answer voter questions on policy issues.

Abhishek Fatehpuria

Executive

VP Product at Robinhood

Discussed Robinhood's new AI agent products enabling customers to connect their own tools and agents to the platform.

Former Apple lead on iPhone Air now heading design for Hark's upcoming hardware devices.

Adam Billen

Executive

Vice president of public policy at Encode AI

Vice president of public policy who explains California's new AI transparency law SB 53, including whistleblower protections and why it succeeded where SB 1047 failed.

Adam Blacker

Executive

Apptopia

Author of "Gen AI Chatbots: February 2026 Apptopia Data Brief" in Apptopia

Revealed that ChatGPT has 1.2 billion weekly active users and that search-like queries are roughly one-fifth of Google's volume.

Adam Mosseri

Executive

Head of Instagram at Meta

Announced crackdown on harassing content filmed with Meta Glasses and deactivated pickup artist accounts.

CEO of Groq leading AI inference cloud expansion with $650M funding round.

Adele Li

Executive

Product Lead, ChatGPT Images at OpenAI

Product Lead for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.

Executive praising NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed models for improving agentic accuracy in enterprise context intelligence systems.

CEO of 1800Flowers who implemented AI-powered product sorting and ranking, resulting in improved conversion rates.

Discussed how Qura's structured legal data infrastructure enables reliable AI reasoning for legal work after acquisition.

Director at Financial Times who discussed how AI-powered personalized paywalls increased conversion rates by 290%.

States his agent red-teaming firm relies more on fine-tuning open models than abliterated ones for testing.

Ailian Gan

Executive

Head of Agents at Superhuman

Superhuman product director issuing statement about disabling Grammarly's Expert Review feature and plans to reimagine it with expert consent.

Tahirkheli explained that AIUC-1 provides a measurable way for KPMG to demonstrate commitment to bold, responsible and trusted AI.

Author of "OpenAI Collects Public Feedback on Its Model Spec, Releasing the Dataset on Hugg" in OpenAI

Banga, as World Bank president, has made attracting private-sector funding into emerging economies a focus and mobilized $120bn of private capital in the past year.

Promoted from VP of Firefox Product to head of Firefox as part of organizational restructuring.

Hired from Block to serve as chief accounting officer at OpenAI ahead of the company's IPO preparations.

Released AI tool from his nonprofit Climate TRACE that monitors fine particulate pollution from 660 million sources worldwide using artificial intelligence.

Hired by OpenAI in December to lead corporate development, signaling continued M&A strategy

Provided a quote about wanting Newegg to be part of conversations when consumers research purchases via ChatGPT Ads.

Believes abliterated models can elicit useful behavior for stress-testing systems despite potential capability reduction.

Emphasized that AI is increasing the need for subsea infrastructure and connectivity to connect data centers for AI development.

Quoted describing how Intuit is bringing its agentic AI workflows into Meta's Muse for small business financial management.

Announced collaboration with MIT and J-PAL on Project AI Evidence to study AI's potential benefits for society.

Alex Engler

Executive

inaugural Executive Director at Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Contributed employment and job change data covering 1M+ job changes monthly.

Announced Meta's privacy-focused update to disable camera when privacy LED is tampered with.

Discussed Spotify's AI remix and covers product, emphasizing artist consent, credit, and compensation.

Alex Schultz

Executive

Chief Data Officer at Meta

Visited Asia to study startups organizing around AI, and helped develop internal experiments for applying AI-first organizational approaches at Meta.

Salesforce President and CRO who discussed how Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic enables sellers to access customer data through Claude.

Highlighting sector-specific challenges around content moderation in agentic AI systems.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Microsoft Security executive working with NVIDIA on adversarial learning for Nemotron and OpenShell to protect against AI-based attacks, reporting 160x improvement in finding and mitigating attacks.

Co-authored research on the state of AI showing how organizations are rewiring to capture value from gen AI through structural and process changes.

Discussed L'Oréal's Beauty Tech Agentic Platform powered by Google Cloud agent governance.

Alexandru Costin

Executive

VP of generative AI at Adobe

Explained Adobe's decision to build different AI assistant modes for Express versus Photoshop, targeting students and professionals.

Led the team that added inline citations to the Help Agent, which increased adoption 27% and improved trust metrics.

Ali Rana

Executive

Director of Product Management, Applied AI at Google

Authored article announcing Google's recognition as Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms.

Explained Swiss Re's research on autonomous vehicle safety using insurance data framework.

CEO of cybersecurity AI company Assail quoted expressing concerns about AI-powered hacking capabilities versus human hackers.

Noted Tesla could eventually manufacture humanoid robots but has not successfully released Optimus commercially yet.

Spoke about GS Group's experience as an early enterprise customer of Graphon AI for analyzing customer movement and safety monitoring.

Discussing supply chain optimization challenges using AI in enterprise operations.

Leads Volvo's software development and announced partnership with NVIDIA for hands-free autonomous driving technology.

Author of "Softchoice Reported 97% Reduction in Meeting Summary Time"

McMaster wrote to employees defending the company's decision to sell Spot robots to ICE despite employee petition.