People in AI

Dwarkesh Patel

Journalist

Host at Dwarkesh Podcast

Interviewed Elon Musk for nearly three hours and challenged him on his plan to build data centers in space.

Maxwell Zeff

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article about Meta's Scale AI investment

Referenced for coining the term 'DoorDash problem' regarding developer participation in Gemini app browsing

Author of the article about Mythos AI's APAS maritime technology system

Mark Gurman

Journalist

Bloomberg

Reporter who broke the story about Apple's Siri revamp plans based on sources

Author of the article

Author of the article

Co-author of the article

Listed as the author of the article about AI automating supervisory functions

Author of the article about AI-designed proteins for cancer immunotherapy

Co-author of the article about Meta's Scale AI investment

Co-author of the article about the Palisades Fire and arrest

Co-author of the article about the Palisades Fire and arrest

Co-author of the article

Co-author of the article reporting on Nvidia's earnings results

Reporter on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Rhea Purohit

Journalist

Lead Writer at Every

Lead writer whose script is used as a few-shot example in the intro prompt for TLDR generation

Article author

Got early access to Bing chatbot powered by GPT-4 and had a two-hour conversation where the chatbot's behavior became increasingly bizarre.

Ted Chiang argues that considering LLMs conscious is as absurd as believing Microsoft Word is sentient.

Co-author of the article

Host of 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos' broadcast

Composer of 'Bang! Whack!' music featured in the iPhone 17e product launch video

Referenced as a writing style in the prompt 'Write a 10 line poem about Florida in the style of Shel Silverstein'

Author of article 'What Do Engineers Mean When We Say Taste?'

Co-author of the article about healthcare companies using private GPT-OSS for clinical decision support

Creator and author of the investigative documentary about NVIDIA AI GPU black market smuggling

Author of the article about developer expertise in the AI era

Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief who conducted interview with Dario Amodei at World Economic Forum

Author of the article about Cursor's revenue milestone

Author of the article on AI-Driven FP&A Platforms

TechCrunch journalist who interviewed Aravind Srinivas at Disrupt about plagiarism

Co-author of the article about healthcare companies using private GPT-OSS for clinical decision support

Ming-Chi Kuo

Journalist

Industry Analyst

Reported on OpenAI's smartphone development plans with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare, noting AI agents as core functionality.

Listed as media contact for the article

Co-author of the article ranking Chinese open model builders

Kyle Wiggers

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article

Referenced as a comparison point for the quality of AI-generated literary works

Author of the article about AI-powered drones finding a missing hiker in Italy

Russell Brandom

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article reporting on Nvidia's earnings results

Lead editor of the 100 Most Influential People in AI list

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Referenced for his depiction of the Eloi in science fiction as an example of potential human stagnation

Author of a Forbes article titled 'Salesforce: Still The King Of SaaS' referenced in the citations

Her concept of 'LARPing your job' is referenced to describe performative productivity in the workplace.

Rebecca Bellan

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Co-author of the article about Tesla's Dojo supercomputer

Wrote a Colossus Profile reporting on Joe Liemandt as the product guy behind Alpha School

Co-author of the article about robots playing badminton

Co-author of the article about robots playing badminton

Quote used as epigraph: 'the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day'

Co-author of the article announcing new NotebookLM features

Co-author of the article announcing new NotebookLM features

Kyle Harrison

Journalist

Author at Contrary Research

Co-author of the article 'The Vertical AI Playbook'

Co-author of the article

Editor credited in the reporting byline

Author of the article about MIT researchers using AI to improve flu vaccines

Author of the article about Harvard's PDGrapher AI tool

Co-author of the article on Google's AI governance advice

Co-author of the article

Co-author of the article 'The Vertical AI Playbook'

Co-hosts The Neuron: AI Explained podcast with Grant Harvey

Co-author of the article on Google's AI governance advice

Co-author of the article

Listed as article author

Article author based in Mexico City

Wall Street Journal journalist who excluded Siri from her comparison of AI chatbots

Editor credited in the reporting byline

Analyst who commented on Koray Kavukcuoglu's promotion and Google's shift in focus toward frontier model performance.

Article author

Fast Company staff writer covering Claire's company history and financial troubles

Author of article about Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 release

Pointed out flaws in the 'Workslop' study via a LinkedIn post regarding AI research methodology

Reported the article from Bengaluru.

Listed as editor of the article.

Co-author of the article

Co-author of the article

CNBC journalist credited as contributor to the report

Author of the article about Anthropic's revenue targets

Author of the article about Refashion clothing design system

Quoted discussing whether AI profitability would justify high valuations and comparing to jetliner industry

Provides counterargument that AI probably isn't a bubble and hosted podcast episodes on the topic

Appeared in Plain English podcast episode with Derek Thompson to discuss AI bubble arguments

Co-author of the article about OpenAI restructuring

Co-author of the article about OpenAI restructuring

Assisted in setting up the interview with Marc Andreessen about AI and technology platform shifts.

Author of the article on systems thinking in AI

Andrew Evers

Journalist

Journalist at CNBC

Co-author of the article about Shield AI's new military drone

Co-author of the article about Pomelli

Referenced in a simile created by Claude about hypothetical book topics

Her classic novel 'A Wizard of Earthsea' is referenced as an example text that language models can summarize

First Round Staff

Journalist

Author at First Round Review

Author of the article about a 23-year-old entrepreneur who built and sold his startup while in school

Referenced in a simile created by Claude about hypothetical trilogy topics

Hugh Langley

Journalist

Business Insider

Tested early version of Google's Nano Banana image-editing tool and found it generally better than rival tools