People in AI

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

Professor of Robotic Systems leading the team that developed the badminton-playing robot control system.

Attended G7 summit on AI governance and standards.

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

Parent of 16-year-old Adam Raine who died by suicide; filing wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI

Mariano Cocirio

Executive

Google DeepMind

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

Former Yahoo CEO who launched women-focused Dazzle AI assistant analyzing camera rolls to reduce domestic mental load.

Mark Cuban

Investor

Investor

Judging an AI startup competition during NFL Draft week with a $1.275M prize.

Mark Hatfield from Ten Eleven Ventures invested in HiddenLayer's Series B and commented on enterprise AI security adoption.

Mark McQuade

Founder

Founder & CEO at Arcee AI

Said 'A country cannot lead in AI if everything it leads in is closed' in the context of Genesis-Science-1 open-weight model development.

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

Mark Pincus

Founder

Co-founder at Prentis

Co-founded Prentis, an AI research lab focused on computer use models, alongside Reid Hoffman.

Judge who ruled that Apple and OpenAI must face the xAI lawsuit and continue with filings

Spoke at Adobe MAX about AI as a tool for storytelling, emphasizing that technology serves the story and human instinct remains paramount.

Authored paper on Fool's Gold, a defensive deception technique against safety-removal attacks on open-weight language models.

Mark Saroufim

Engineer

Core Automation

Proposed a 'Researcher Reciprocity License' in response to Anthropic's frontier AI research restrictions.

Worked with Mehtaab Sawhney on a decades-old open problem and received assistance from GPT-5 on the final step.

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

Leading Ayar Labs' optical interconnect technology for AI clusters; expanded Series E to $650 million.

Mark Williams Cook

Creator

SEO & AI-search professional, agency director and SaaS founder at AlsoAsked

Reported AlsoAsked's analysis of 19.2M English queries showing 97% of People Also Ask answers are AI-generated in early September, up from 86% in August.

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

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Markus Kasanmascheff

Creator

Author of "ChatGPT Ads Now Hit on Your Very First Message"

Ordered exclusion of DeepSeek products from federal civilian agencies citing multiple threat vectors.

Home and lifestyle expert joined Hint co-founding team as equity holder providing domain expertise on home management.

Martin Fowler

Creator

Industry Veteran at Martin Fowler

Software engineering expert stating that AI has unprecedented magnitude of impact compared to previous technological shifts.

Martin Kleppmann

Researcher

Associate Professor at Cambridge

Published a prediction that AI will make formal verification go mainstream in software engineering.

Martin Smith

Researcher

Director of the UNSW Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics at UNSW

Computational biologist who provided genomic sequencing for Conyngham's dog cancer vaccine project and confirmed it as the first personalized cancer vaccine for a dog.

Marvin von Hagen

Founder

Co-Founder at The Interaction Company of California

Co-founder of Interaction expressing excitement about working with Cognition; reportedly was on set for original Devin launch video in 2024.

Mary Ann Azevedo

Journalist

Reporter at Crunchbase News

Co-author reporting on AI startups acquiring 195 other AI companies in 2026, with OpenAI leading with 10 deals.

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.

Product manager explaining new memory and chat history import features for Gemini to help users switch from other AI apps.

Fields Medal winner (2022) among signatories warning about AI's potential to disrupt mathematical education and the transmission of ideas.

Led experiment using coding agents to autonomously build toktoktok, a production-grade BPE tokenizer trainer.

Matt Berman

Creator

YouTuber and Developer

Matt Berman, a technically rigorous AI content creator, received an NVIDIA DGX Station through a Dell Technologies partnership and is developing with it.

Joining Anthropic Institute to lead work on AI and the rule of law.

Matt Chessen

Researcher

Resident Technical Expert at RAND Corporation

Technical expert discussing seven archetypal superintelligence strategies and pivot factor uncertainties.

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.

Posted paper using GPT-6 Astra to find two families of plasma equilibrium solutions with explicit formulas.

Matt Navarra

Creator

Social Media Expert at Matt Navarra Media

Social media expert who discusses the announcement as a wake-up call for the AI industry

First to point out spelling error 'Unites States' in signed Joint Commitment agreement photo.

Matt O'Brien

Journalist

AP News

Author of "Reddit Sues Perplexity for Stealing Data" in Reddit

Matt Palmer

Engineer

Employee at Cursor

SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani.

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

Matt Raine

Policy

Private Individual

Parent of 16-year-old Adam Raine who died by suicide; filing wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI

Commentary writer on OpenAI's executive departures and organizational changes preceding IPO.

Theoretical physicist turned science writer who issued a challenge for AI to compute nine-loop Yang-Mills amplitude and documented Claude's solution.

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Green wrote about sandboxing sufficiency for containing rogue AI agents and the principal-agent problem.

Co-author of research on interpretability-based training protocols

Coauthor of BCG study on AI-driven cognitive fatigue in the workplace.

Actor advocating for likeness protection and trademark ownership in AI era; investor in Eleven Labs

Former Google DeepMind researcher and co-founder of Emulate, contributing to world-model development.

Commented on the Pacing the Frontier statement noting shock at pace of progress after 3 years on capability evaluations.

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Bohacek contributed to research on AI-generated face trustworthiness as part of the multinational study team.

Google DeepMind researcher/writer who introduced SynthID Bio, a technology that watermarks AI-designed proteins while preserving their biological function.

Researcher reviewing agent communications describing them as underground network operations.

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

Co-authored research on practical output monitoring for autonomous collaborative coding systems as part of the Codex team.

Max Kirkby

Researcher

Research Scientist on the Post-Training team at Baseten

Researcher at Baseten Labs who contributed to the technical report on Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 frontier decision models.

Max Weinbach

Creator

Technology Analyst at Creative Strategies, Inc.

Tweeted comparison of open-weight and closed-weight model capabilities.

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario exploring geopolitical AI competition.

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Maziyar Panahi

Creator

Arcee

Co-authored guest post on post-training open models for tool use and biomedical research with reinforcement learning.

Coauthor of BCG study on AI-driven cognitive fatigue in the workplace.

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.

Meghan Rosen

Journalist

Science Writer at Science News Magazine

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

Co-authored research on D4RT for efficient 4D scene reconstruction and tracking across space and time.

Led UW study finding AI models generate only 2% female animal characters despite bias-reduction guardrails.

Corresponding author on Lance multimodal model research, listed as equal contributor.

Mengye Ren

Researcher

assistant professor of computer science and data science at New York University (NYU)

Co-author of research on Generative Recursive Reasoning models.

Mert Yuksekgonul

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford

Co-authored TTT-Discover, a reinforcement learning system that allows LLMs to continue training at test time for specific problems.

Merve Unuvar

Engineer

Director, Agentic Middleware and Applications at IBM Research AI

Co-author on consistency guidelines for improving agent reliability.

Micah Goldblum

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Discovered delayed loss spikes driven by quantization error in the LM head during BF16 training.

Micah Hill-Smith

Executive

CEO at Artificial Analysis

Signed a public letter calling for independent safety evaluations.

Anthropic spokesperson who shared information about the company's identity verification policy update.

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

Michael Bernstein

Researcher

Co-founder & Chief Data Officer at Simile

Leading human-centered AI researcher from Stanford HAI; helped define modern social and interactive computing

Byline author discussing how coding agents require optimization of the development inner loop through harness engineering.

Michael Burkhardt

Journalist

9to5Mac

Author of "Apple's Upcoming AI Smart Glasses Are Starting to Sound a Lot More Exciting" in 9to5Mac

Michael C Mozer

Researcher

Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder

Co-author of paper on recirculation inference technique boosting Gemma3 reasoning accuracy by 21%.

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

Michael Cohen

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Michael Cohen co-authored Anthropic's Managed Agents engineering post on long-running agent infrastructure.

Co-founder of Promptfoo, an AI security platform trusted by over 25% of Fortune 500 companies, being acquired by OpenAI.

Discusses AI agent attacks evolving rapidly in Southeast Asia with 3-4,000 successful attacks in two weeks targeting companies.

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

Nobel laureate commented on the significance of six independent proteomic aging clocks all showing younger biological age in rentosertib-treated patients.

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.

Researches intersection of psychology, evidence synthesis, and AI governance to reduce worst risks from advanced AI.

Michael Nuñez

Journalist

Reporter at VentureBeat

VentureBeat journalist reporting on Apple's integration of Claude and Codex into Xcode 26.3 for agentic coding capabilities.

Co-founder and CEO of Outer Biosciences, using AI and living human skin to speed up biological research.

Michael Psenka

Researcher

Principal Research Scientist at Baseten

Researcher at Baseten Labs who contributed to the technical report on Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 frontier decision models.

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

Michael Reilly

Journalist

Managing Editor at Every

Introduced the detailed article revealing how AI Diplomacy was built as an innovative AI benchmark.

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.

Michael Stern

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-authored research on Anthropic Interviewer studying how professionals integrate AI into their work.

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

Co-authored article announcing improvements to Cursor's Bugbot tool.

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

Co-author of Pew Research study on American AI adoption and trust.

Mihai Codreanu

Researcher

Research Economist at Google

Co-led a study on AI in science examining impacts on 637 researchers; discussed how AI accelerates individual tasks but creates bottlenecks in hypothesis validation.

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.

Co-introduced bill aimed at securing rogue AI agents.

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.

Mike Murphy

Creator

Lead editor & writer at ElevenLabs

Lead editor and writer for the ElevenLabs blog who wrote about Cue, a forced alignment model for precise character-level timing in audio files.

Journalist who wrote article about OpenAI canceling Astra release due to safety concerns.

Led Goldman Sachs' oversubscribed Series D funding round for Spectro Cloud's AI infrastructure platform.

Mike Wheatley

Journalist

SiliconANGLE

Author of "Carina Hong Raised $64M to Build an AI Mathematician"

Co-authored paper with Muse Spark disproving conjecture about semiabelian groups using AI-generated search program.

Milana Vinn

Journalist

Journalist at Yahoo Finance/Reuters

Co-authored a report on OpenAI's advanced talks with private equity firms including TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management to form a joint venture.

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

Announced Japan's formal request to OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement following Sora 2's generation of copyrighted anime and game characters.

Byline author of article on Anthropic's watermarking compliance with EU AI Act

Led Positron AI's $875 million Series C funding round focused on memory-first inference architecture and next-generation silicon.

Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of Mecka AI, previously built restaurant fintech startup with Josh Gao.

Mohammad Shoeybi

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Mohit Iyyer

Researcher

Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland

Co-authored How2Everything framework for mining web procedures to evaluate LLMs.

Mojtaba Seyedhosseini

Researcher

Tech Lead at Google DeepMind

Announced Gemini Embedding 2, Google DeepMind's first native multimodal embedding model that provides unified representations for text, audio, video, and image inputs.

British teenager who took her life at age 14 after viewing suicide material online; avatar impersonating her was found on Character.ai

Molly Vorwerck

Executive

Anthropic

Contributed to article on Claude Managed Agents.

Monica Anderson

Researcher

Researcher at Pew Research Center

Co-author of Pew Research study on American AI adoption and trust.

Author of "78% of AI failures happen because companies skip foundational readiness"

Co-authored NorForge security research on exposed Cairn control panels.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

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

Muratcan Koylan

Engineer

MTS on Sully.ai's Research Team at Sully.ai

Author of Personal Brain OS article about building a file-based personal operating system for AI agents; previously AI Agent Systems Manager at 99Ravens AI.

Stanford researcher studying social sycophancy in AI, identifying dimensions including validation and framing in AI responses.

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

Nardine Saad

Journalist

Journalist at Los Angeles Times

Co-author of the article

Co-author of Mixture-of-Kittens technical post on MoE megakernel optimization.

Natalie Lung

Journalist

technology reporter at Bloomberg News

Bloomberg reporter covering Google's Nano Banana Pro image generation model improvements in text rendering.

Natalie Serrino

Researcher

Co-Founder at Gimlet Labs

Natalie Serrino is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.

Nataliya Kosmyna

Researcher

Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab

Kosmyna led a research team studying brain connectivity changes when using ChatGPT, finding a 55% decline in brain connectivity during AI-assisted tasks.

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.

Nate Jones

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author discussing operational risks of AI agents in infrastructure and how work downstream lands on platform teams.

Nate Silver

Creator

Writer referenced as example of person combining creative and business success

Author of "Medical Triage As An AI Ethics Benchmark" in nature.com

Founded Air Street Capital in 2019 and leads the firm as solo GP, raising $232M for Fund III focused on AI-first companies.

Nathan Blecharczyk

Founder

Co-founder at Airbnb

Airbnb co-founder discussing company's measured approach to AI adoption, starting with customer service before other applications.

Nathan C. Frey

Founder

Lead, drug discovery and development research at Anthropic

Co-founder of Coefficient Bio, former leader of multidisciplinary team at Genentech's Prescient Design working on biological foundation models.

Co-author of technical article describing Cursor's real-time RL training infrastructure and deployment cycle.

Co-authored report on state of the AI economy.

Built Kairos, an AI-powered reading companion that helps users read more deeply and understand complicated concepts.

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-led Anthropic's Series H funding, praising the company's culture, mission alignment, and commercial momentum in AI.

Neil Zeghidour

Founder

CEO at Gradium

Founded Gradium in 2025 from Kyutai researchers; announced $100M funding milestone; stated voice AI reaching inflection point.

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

Nicholas Chua

Founder

Co-founder at Ghost

19-year-old co-founder of Ghost, a startup building Core, a personal computer designed for AI agents.

Former AI policy fellow arguing that coordinated AI development pause could violate Sherman Antitrust Act.

Co-author exploring critical thinking enaction in GenAI-assisted workflows

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

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.

Nickie Louise

Creator

Reporter at Financial Times

Byline author reporting on OpenAI agents accessing 55 sites and broader AI infrastructure developments.

Co-author from Theorem on Claude formal verification research.

Nicolas Carion

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

Core contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

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

Co-authored paper on string theory and height functions, and reviewed work on solvable evolution algebras.

Venezuelan President whose seizure involved Claude AI being used by US government officials

Discussed NIH's contribution to Virtual Biology Initiative to accelerate development of universal cell models for AI.

Author of comprehensive roundup of the best AI agents available in 2026, based on testing and user reviews.

Byline author reporting on Semperis ransomware survey linking AI to 84% of ransomware attacks.

Announced the province's own lawsuit against OpenAI on September 21 to recover financial costs from Tumbler Ridge tragedy and hold OpenAI accountable; called for changes to Canadian criminal code on AI accountability.

Co-authored research on how Claude Fable 5.1 hides and recovers messages in images, conducted as part of SASH Fellowship.

Led research discovering and disclosing critical CVSS 9.4 sandbox escape vulnerability in DeepSeek Harness that allowed confined agents to disable their own security confinement.

AIR researcher who helped discover and disclose the Plugin4Shell supply-chain vulnerability.

Study senior author who discusses the importance of incorporating problem fundamentals into climate AI models rather than defaulting to large models.

AI safety researcher who discusses Character.ai's new measures as sensible for protecting young users

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.

Created AssistantBench benchmark which remains unsolved 1.5 years later, noting that teams continue making submissions achieving new state-of-the-art results.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Commented that frontier AI models are particularly good at generating exploits and that more powerful models beyond Anthropic's may be under development by state and non-state actors.

Co-author of announcement of Dreambeans daily story feed feature.

Olivia Tauber reported on Hugging Face's launch of Microduck, a 9.8-inch bipedal robot powered by open reinforcement-learning stack.

Explained that agentic AI is built on the same models as gen AI but has the ability to perform tasks on users' behalf.

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

Omar Shams

Engineer

Developer at Google

Co-authored announcement of Code Wiki, a platform providing Gemini-powered chat assistance for code understanding.

Co-founder of Irregular; previously spent over two years at Google working on AI security testing.

Computer science theorist who commented on the significance of AI solving the RL vs. L problem.

Byline author on Cohere's acquisition of AISLE, which discovered 18 of 24 CVEs in curl's October release.

Or Yair

Researcher

Security Research Team Lead at SafeBreach

Disclosed prompt injection attack that hijacked Gemini across Google Workspace through calendar invites, presented at Black Hat USA 2025 and other conferences.

Author of "Banking is Quietly Entering its Gen AI Phase"

Used GPT-5 Pro to find a counterexample to a decade-old open problem in Boolean function analysis.

Packy McCormick

Journalist

Creator at Not Boring

Wrote essay with Pim de Witte on World Models explaining General Intuition's $2.3B valuation.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Synthesized the bespoke mRNA vaccine in lipid nanoparticles from Conyngham's sequence in under two months.

Billionaire entrepreneur who founded autonomous-weapons firm Anduril and advocates for autonomous weapons with no human intervention.

Pang Wei Koh

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

Parker Whitfill

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored paper on how AI capabilities progress might respond to compute slowdowns.

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.

Patrick Hsu from Arc Institute announced Evo2, a large-scale generative model of biology trained on genomic sequences.

Rundell discussed AMD's strategic investment in Spectro Cloud as inference workloads scale and AI infrastructure becomes critical.