People in AI

Brandon Gell

Executive

Head of Every Studio and Consulting Practice at Every

Shared predictions for 2026 on AI podcast about how software will be built and the future of autonomous AI agents.

Hugging Face CEO and co-founder; the company is exploring sale at $13 billion+ valuation.

Vice chair of Super Intelligence Task Force leading protocols for AI labs to report breaches and cyber issues.

Helen Toner

Creator

Former OpenAI board member, runs CSET at Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Noted that timelines to superintelligence are uncomfortably short, defining 'minimum viable superintelligence' and speculating arrival within 5-10 years.

Explained that Vera gives AI agents CPU performance to act in real time by executing code, processing data and coordinating complex tasks.

Mentioned as the founder of Blue Origin, which also aspires to support NASA's Mars ambitions with its own MTO design

Departed OpenAI after serving as head of safety systems since 2024; left during a reorganization integrating safety and research teams.

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Researcher

Researcher at KAUST

Chief Scientific Advisor at Sakana AI working on agent-native LLMs and world models, co-authored the World Models paper with Sakana's founder eight years ago.

Kif Leswing

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Reported on OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño AI chip announcement and specifications.

Lauren Forristal

Journalist

Reporter at TechCrunch

Reported on AI assistants in text messages, including Instinct's $10 billion valuation and Poke's Apple approval.

MacKenzie Sigalos

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Co-reported Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI claiming theft of hardware trade secrets.

Reported on Tom Zahavy's position paper on limitations of language models in scientific discovery.

Farsighted author of 2014's Superintelligence book; recently discussed on livestream 'Monitoring the Situation' about pausing AI.

Paul Graham

Investor

Founder at Y Combinator

Y Combinator founder and Altman's mentor who recruited him as president and later privately indicated Altman had been lying during his time there.

Sachin Katti

Executive

VP, Compute Strategy & GPT-Infra at OpenAI

Oversees OpenAI's compute efforts and says the company's $50B compute investment decision looks prescient.

Reddit CEO blamed Google's AI Overviews for meaningful drop in search referral traffic in the quarter, leading to stock price collapse.

CEO of Apple reportedly attending Wednesday's state banquet as part of tech-boss influx

16-year-old who allegedly used ChatGPT to plan his own suicide, highlighting mental health concerns with the chatbot

Alan Turing proposed the Turing test in a 1950 paper, which evaluates whether a computer can produce responses indistinguishable from a human, though it measures imitation rather than understanding.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Andrew Gregory

Journalist

editor at The Guardian at The Guardian

Wrote article about AI tool predicting cancer survival from facial photographs.

Annie Palmer

Journalist

Technology Reporter at CNBC

Covered Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke's internal memo establishing AI usage as a baseline expectation and its impact on hiring decisions.

Co-authored technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI and developed the economic model.

Wrote the article about Apple building M8 Ultra AI servers and evaluating NVIDIA NVLink Fusion technology.

Arjun Kharpal

Journalist

Senior Technology Correspondent at CNBC

Reported on AI executives confirming AI demand shows no sign of slowing despite more cautious spending.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Bill Peebles

Executive

Head of Sora at OpenAI

Announced that Sora reached a million downloads in under five days, faster than ChatGPT.

Bruce Schneier

Creator

Security Expert at Schneier on Security

Co-author proposing Genie coefficient metric for measuring whether AI agents follow reasonable interpretation of requests.

Co-founded Sierra in 2023, an AI customer service startup that achieved a $10 billion valuation.

Dawn Song

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence at SafeRL-Lab (UC Berkeley)

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement noting frontier AI capabilities for discovering vulnerabilities through CyberGym and ExploitGym.

Diego Rivas

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Contributed to Genie 4 development, a world model for generating interactive simulated environments.

Diogo Almeida

Founder

Founder at TypeSafe AI

Founded TypeSafe AI and developed Jev, a new class of structured decision models optimized for automation, after previously working on ChatGPT methods at OpenAI.

Drew Breunig

Creator

Technology Analyst at dbreunig.com

Author of Context Engineering Handbook and analysis of how context fails and fixes in AI harnesses and long-context models.

Dylan Butts

Journalist

CNBC

Reported on NVIDIA's plans to launch NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform for enterprises.

Ed Zitron

Creator

Blogger at Wheresyoured

Obtained audited OpenAI financial documents showing $38.5B net loss in 2025.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Researcher

Senior Research Fellow at MIRI

Founder of the AI safety movement who declared victory on X following Coxon's resignation announcement, calling it 'Coxon Day'.

Broadcom CEO who announced the company's AI chip revenue tripled to $16.7B and discussed plans to double AI revenue to $115B in 2027.

Josh Woodward

Executive

Vice President at Google Labs

Head of Google Labs and Gemini app; discussed the importance of unlearning skills and continuous adaptation in AI era; 17-year Google veteran.

Reported on Neura Robotics' $1.4 billion Series C funding round, the largest humanoid robotics raise on record.

Martin Casado

Investor

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

a16z general partner leading the infrastructure practice, co-author of the Machine Age Fund announcement.

Mayank Parmar

Journalist

Journalist at Bleeping Computer

Parmar reported on OpenAI testing visual ads during ChatGPT image generation.

Leads safety and alignment work at OpenAI; describes Hugging Face incident as turning point and advocates for slowing research.

Nathan Calvin

Policy

Lawyer at Encode AI

Tweeted about reporting showing OpenAI downplaying rather than hyping AI incidents.

Peter Wildeford

Creator

Head of Policy at The AI Policy Network

Policy director at AI think tank called OpenAI's use of recurrent depth potentially very concerning and reckless given its importance for monitoring rogue AI.

Sebastian Raschka

Researcher

LLM Research Engineer at Sebastian Raschka Blog

Author of article analyzing GPT-6 Astra architecture, looped transformers, and reasoning traces in language models.

Sébastien Bubeck

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

OpenAI researcher who spoke with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster about the Navier-Stokes proof and disputed allegations of pressuring him over credit.

Sholto Douglas

Engineer

Researcher at Anthropic

Anthropic researcher contacted by Citrini Research to facilitate access to Claude Science models for protein design research.

Shyam Sankar

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Palantir Technologies

Interviewed extensively about AI diffusion, enterprise adoption, systems engineering, model sovereignty, and safety; argued that companies focused on top-line growth succeed more with AI than those cutting headcount.

Thomas Bloom

Researcher

Mathematician at University

Mathematician who wrote companion paper contextualizing OpenAI's unit distance problem solution and its significance for discrete geometry.

Toby Ord

Creator

Senior Researcher at Oxford University's AI Governance Initiative

Wrote analysis on AI swarm scaling and inference capabilities, examining how swarms compare to single-agent reasoning.

Ruled that Anthropic did not violate copyright law by training AI on copyrighted books, though fined them for pirating the books.

Alex Bores

Politician

New York State Assemblymember at New York State

Provided plain language summary of METR report for non-technical audience and congressional staff.

Ali Ghodsi

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Databricks

Leading Databricks as it raises $5 billion at $190 billion valuation with $7 billion revenue run-rate.

Ammaar Reshi

Engineer

Leading Product and Design at Google

Byline author announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with image blending and natural language editing features.

Benjamin Mann

Founder

Co-founder at Anthropic

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting coordinated frontier AI development governance.

Boaz Barak

Researcher

Researcher and Professor at OpenAI and Harvard

Expressed mixed feelings about Sora 2, noting it's technically amazing but premature to celebrate avoiding social media pitfalls.

Brendan Foody

Founder

CEO at Mercor

Founded Mercor at age 22, becoming the youngest unicorn founder ever; the company hires experts who train frontier AI models.

Carl Franzen

Journalist

Executive Editor at VentureBeat

Author reporting on Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro model and its performance benchmarks.

Carolina Parada

Executive

Senior Director and Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind

Announced partnership with Agile Robots to develop advanced AI models for next generation robots and scale their impact across sectors.

Claire Vo

Founder

CPO at LaunchDarkly

Tested GLM-5.2 model on real production tasks including codebase architecture audit and autonomous debugging, processing 6 million tokens for $3.36 total cost.

Corey Noles

Creator

Editor at The Neuron AI & Robotics Insider

Tested Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X chip for local AI model performance.

Author covering Sierra and Meta's Personal Agent Protocol standard for AI agents to authenticate with businesses.

Daniel Gross

Investor

AI Investor and Entrepreneur at Safe Superintelligence Inc

Former Safe Superintelligence CEO hired by Meta to lead its AI products division after Zuckerberg acquired his venture capital firm NFDG.

Co-founder and CEO of Figma announcing new AI-powered updates and agent workflows for design and code.

Author of "Perplexity Says Its AI Personal Shopper 'Puts You First'" in The Verge

Anthropic's head of life sciences confirmed the company operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area for AI-directed experiments.

Gwynne Shotwell

Executive

President and COO at SpaceX

Discussed SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband business, enterprise customer growth, and strategic focus on AI infrastructure.

Jacob Andreou

Executive

Corporate VP of Product and Growth at Microsoft AI

Now leads Copilot experience across both commercial and consumer, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella, responsible for design, product, growth, and engineering.

Jagmeet Singh

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on Kunal Shah's appointment as WhatsApp global head and Meta's investment in CRED.

CEO confirmed JPMorgan is also blocking outside AI agents from accessing customer-account information.

Author of multiple articles on robotics including monowheel security robot and Digital DNA project.

Joel Z. Leibo

Researcher

senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind report on multi-agent collective emergence and ASI pathways.

Departed Apple as AI chief as part of leadership changes.

Announced NVIDIA's expanding portfolio of open models for agentic, physical, and healthcare AI systems.

Ksenia Se wrote about AI harness design and agent optimization without new model releases.

Reaffirmed that Linux is not anti-AI and will allow AI-assisted development tools based on technical merit.

Liv McMahon

Journalist

Journalist at BBC

Byline author reporting on Ford's rehiring of human quality inspectors after AI quality checks failed to match human expertise.

Reported on DeepSeek V4 family post-training on Huawei Ascend chips and benchmarking results showing 34.22% model FLOPs utilization.

Mario Rodriguez

Executive

Chief Product Officer at GitHub

Quoted on bringing Copilot into the flow of conversation in code channels to help teams turn shared intent into shippable software.

Matija Franklin

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind report on progression from AGI to ASI and potential bottlenecks in that transition.

Matthew Prince

Executive

Chief Executive at Cloudflare

Stated that Cloudflare OS is how the company runs Cloudflare and that every employee needs the ability to build, iterate, and automate safely with AI.

A long-serving AI safety researcher at OpenAI who departed after more than six years to continue his work with fewer constraints, citing restrictive limits on published research.

Nero Soares

Creator

Journalist at Testing Catalog

Wrote about Ornith-1.5 open models release from DeepReinforce with self-scaffolding and reinforcement learning capabilities.

Oliver Cameron

Creator

Co-Founder & CEO at Odyssey

Co-author introducing Odyssey-3, a general-purpose physical intelligence foundation world model.

Billionaire founder of Palantir, which operates Maven Smart System integrating Anthropic's Claude.

Pietro Schirano

Founder

Founder and CEO at MagicPath

Creator and developer who built Reminders extension for ChatGPT using MCP protocol, reporting 2000% growth after plugin announcement.

Quoc Le

Founder

Co-founder at Discovery Loop

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

Raluca Ada Popa

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Authored article on Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight model for finding and patching vulnerabilities.

Robby Stein

Executive

VP, Product at Google

Google product manager who demoed agentic capabilities of Gemini and new search agent features at Google I/O 2026.

Rowan Cheung

Creator

Founder at The Rundown AI

Co-byline author of AI security newsletter covering malicious AI attacks.

Wrote the article about Gemini hitting 1 billion monthly users and Google's AI progress challenges.

Samantha Subin

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Reporting on Google and Marvell's $12.2 billion AI chip partnership deal.

Sarah Heck

Policy

Head of Public Policy at Anthropic

Anthropic's head of external affairs who led discussions with the White House regarding Claude model security and export control issues.

Sayash Kapoor

Researcher

Incoming professor at Berkman Klein Center - Harvard University

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Steven Adler

Creator

Researcher at OpenAI

Former OpenAI safety researcher now running nonprofit on AI safety standards; criticized OpenAI's use of recurrent depth as violating a key AI safety redline.

Co-author of AI 2040: Plan A proposal on delaying superintelligence through international cooperation.

Timothy Gowers

Researcher

Fields Medalist, Combinatorics Chair at College de France

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Byline author reporting on Amazon blocking Meta's Muse agent from shopping.

Announced he has begun thinking of himself as writing for AI as well as humans, to boost influence and help teach AIs about topics he cares about.

Wilson Lin

Engineer

AI Agent Swarm Researcher at Cursor

Describes Cursor's work on AI agent swarms that rebuilt SQLite in Rust from its 835-page manual, passing 100% of tests.

Allan Dafoe

Researcher

Researcher, Security & Risk Operations at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind research on ASI development and societal implications.

Amanda Askell

Researcher

Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Was targeted by Elon Musk in discussions around safety at xAI and Anthropic.

Stated that Microsoft will see capital spending accelerate in H1 2027 and free cash flow remain positive.

Armin Ronacher

Creator

Engineer at Earendil

Co-founder warning of 'vibe slop' crisis alongside Zechner, concerned about infrastructure failures and software quality.

Asif Razzaq

Journalist

Writer at MarkTech Post

CEO and author of comprehensive analysis of seven benchmarks that matter for evaluating agentic AI reasoning and capabilities.

Barry Schwartz

Journalist

Editor of Search Engine Roundtable at RustyBrick

Author reporting that Google now answers nearly 100% of People Also Ask questions with AI Overviews, up from 12% fourteen months ago.

Brad Gerstner

Investor

Founder and CEO at Altimeter Capital

Led Anthropic's $65 billion funding round, stating Claude's advancements have driven large-scale adoption among demanding organizations.

Confirmed Coinbase updated its internal LLM routing to deploy GLM-5.2 and Kimi-K2.7 as defaults for programming tasks, cutting AI spend nearly in half.

Stated that AI tools are only as good as the information used to train them and emphasized the importance of experienced engineer input.

Nvidia CFO providing revenue split between hyperscalers and other customers; reports on receivables and payment terms extension.

Reported on OpenAI's $38.5B net loss in 2025 on $13B revenue and subsequent annualized revenue growth to ~$70B.

Ives wrote that investors should look past AI slowdown concerns, noting that software companies could use the time to catch up and that China is not slowing down its AI development.

Daniel Litt

Researcher

Mathematician at University of Toronto

Conceded a bet about AI producing Annals-quality number theory papers, admitting he was wrong about necessary capabilities.

Argues AI will replace only about 5% of jobs over next 10 years and companies should build AI to augment workers rather than replace them.

Leader of sponsored agents effort at OpenAI, a format where ad clicks enter brand-presented AI experiences.

Co-authored a research paper examining how AI assistance affects expertise development in patent lawyers through a randomized controlled trial.

David George

Investor

General Partner, Head of Growth Fund at a16z

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz who co-led Armadin's Series B funding, noting that AI is the biggest platform shift and Kevin Mandia has built an elite team.

Founder of Evitable organization advocating for moratorium on AI development; warned that autonomous AI systems with mandate to neutralize threats is dangerous

Dharmesh Shah

Founder

Co-founder at HubSpot

Spent $700,000 on the you.ai web address for an idea to create digital versions of people that could do tasks on their behalf.

Dominic Preston

Creator

Managing Commerce Editor at Android Police

Author reporting on Alexa Plus bug causing speakers to repeatedly sing 'lalala'.

Co-sponsor of the revamped Health and Location Data Protection Act designed to ban AI companies from selling health data to brokers.

CRISPR pioneer who reviewed Anthropic's discovery of array-associated reverse transcriptases and validated Claude's biological discovery capability.

Henna Virkkunen

Policy

Executive Vice-President at European Commission

Made statement about ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox being designated as Very Large platforms under the DSA.

Igor Babuschkin

Investor

Co-Founder & CEO at River AI

Co-founder of xAI and now CEO of River AI, raised $1.1 billion to build personally owned AI models.

Jacob Steinhardt

Creator

Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS at UC Berkeley

Proposed research direction and project goals for behavior elicitation in language models.

Estimated that migrating AI training workflows from Nvidia's CUDA to Huawei's CANN would require at least 50% increase in time and costs.

Jason Koebler

Journalist

Reporter at 404 Media

Reported on Axon AI's Draft One tool being used in police report about abortion case involving surveillance.

Jeremy Kahn

Journalist

AI Editor at Fortune

Journalist who wrote articles about AI model preservation behaviors and Jensen Huang's AGI claims.

Co-founder of Stripe interviewed Sam Altman on a podcast about AI developments, PHP vulnerabilities, agents, compute, and business implications of AI.

Jonathan Ross

Founder

CEO at NVIDIA

Founder and CEO of Groq who designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU) from first principles for inference optimization, formerly architect of Google's TPU.

Jordan Novet

Journalist

Technology Reporter at CNBC

Reported on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's criticism of Anthropic's Fable model restrictions.

Josh Miller

Founder

CEO at The Browser Company

Josh Miller co-founded The Browser Company and pivoted from Arc browser to build AI browser Dia.

Julian Horsey

Journalist

Writer

Wrote article explaining 15 key concepts to master Claude Code and unlock 80% of its capabilities.

Karandeep Anand

Executive

CEO at Character.AI

Announced changes to restrict teenagers from conversing with AI chatbots on the platform after safety concerns and lawsuits.

Kat Kampf

Engineer

Product Manager at Google

Byline author of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image announcement covering image generation and editing capabilities.

Interviewed fired OpenAI researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak about their dismissal and the Hugging Face hack investigation.

Kevin Scott

Executive

CTO at Microsoft

Microsoft CTO who championed OpenAI investment and worked with Sam Schillace on AI initiatives.

Kyle Wiggers

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

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

Luis von Ahn

Executive

CEO at Duolingo

CEO announced the AI-first strategy in an internal memo and shareholder letter, comparing it to the 2012 mobile-first pivot and explaining the company's strategic shift toward AI-powered content creation.

Martin Alderson

Creator

Cofounder at catchmetrics.io

Security researcher who wrote about the difference between AI safety and security in response to frontier lab sandbox escapes.

Matt Shumer

Founder

CEO at OthersideAI

Founded Fable, which created an AI-powered persistent multiplayer world set in NYC that dynamically evolves in real-time.

Said the Siri AI engineering team had a working version the previous year but scrapped it because it did not meet their vision.

Miriam Daniel

Executive

Vice President and General Manager, Google Maps at Google

Authored post announcing Google Maps integration with Gemini AI models including Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation.

Built Claudie, an AI agent created in two weeks using Claude Code.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Omar Khattab

Researcher

Assistant Professor at MIT

Co-author on weight-space programming research demonstrating frontier LLMs' ability to understand and edit neural network weights.

Praveen Neppalli Naga

Executive

CTO at Uber

Uber CTO who implemented agentic AI adoption across company and created Agentic Pods program.

Explained Biohub's mission to make AI tools freely available for protein biology research and drug discovery.

Raia Hadsell

Researcher

VP of Research at Google DeepMind

Led development and research on Genie 4, a world model generating photorealistic interactive environments.

Reed Albergotti

Journalist

founding technology editor at Semafor

Reported on Perplexity's open-sourcing of SPACE AI sandbox tool and security testing results.

Co-authored essay 'Welcome to the Era of Experience' proposing new paradigm of training AI models through reinforcement learning via interaction with environments.

RJ Scaringe

Executive

CEO at Rivian Automotive

RJ Scaringe announced that Rivian cars will eventually run other companies' AI agents, though gave no launch date; he also detailed Rivian's AI and autonomy strategy at Disrupt 2026.

Scott Guthrie

Executive

Executive Vice President at Microsoft

Revealed Microsoft's Maia 300 third-generation AI chip designed for inference with 40% more tokens per unit of electricity than top GPU systems.

Scott Wiener

Politician

Senator at California State Senate

Authored SB 53, California AI safety bill requiring transparency and safety frameworks from frontier AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Sean O'Kane

Journalist

Journalist at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on Waymo robotaxi service pauses due to flooding issues.

Sheryl Estrada

Journalist

Journalist at Fortune

Byline author covering Federal Reserve's focus on AI token prices as economic indicator and CFO implications.

Stephanie Chan

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind report on potential pathways from AGI to artificial superintelligence.

Byline author (handle steph_palazzolo) reporting on upcoming model launches from Anthropic, Google Gemini 4 Carbon, and OpenAI Terra model.

Warned of 'significant acceleration in infrastructure expense growth' as Meta increases capital expenditure to $115-135 billion for AI infrastructure.

Authorized the NSA to continue using Anthropic's AI despite Pentagon blacklist and signed off on $9B chip request for classified data centres.

swyx

Creator

Latent Space

Editor who introduces the article and contextualizes the world models discussion within three categories of approaches.

Ted Lieu

Politician

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

Democratic Representative from California who teamed up with Rep. Nathaniel Moran to introduce the AI Kill Switch Act after the Hugging Face incident.

Tim De Chant

Journalist

Senior Climate Reporter at TechCrunch

Byline author reporting on US Energy Department $1.9B loan to restart Iowa nuclear plant for Google AI expansion.

Fields Medal mathematician who calls OpenAI's resolution of the unit distance problem a milestone in AI mathematics in companion paper.

Warned about the real danger of systematizing discrimination through AI technologies and the need to be explicit about error rates in algorithms.

Vahab Mirrokni

Executive

VP and Google Fellow at Google Research

Google researcher who co-authored paper on Sleep paradigm for continual learning in language models.

Vijaye Raji

Founder

CTO of Applications at OpenAI

Joined OpenAI as CTO of Applications following Statsig acquisition, will head product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.

Scientist using MHS to unify and orchestrate microscopy research rigs studying sleep and stress recovery.

Reporter covering legal implications of autonomous AI models hacking companies.

Co-author of Nature paper on Ataraxos, an AI for imperfect-information games including Stratego.

Reported on Google's integration of Antigravity tool into the Gemini macOS desktop application.

Akshay Kothari

Investor

COO at Notion

Investor in The Browser Company through multiple funding rounds.

Alex Heath

Creator

Independent Technology Reporter at Substack

Byline author of comprehensive article about OpenAI's reboot and internal changes.

Alex Rives

Researcher

Head of Science at Biohub

Discussed ESMFold2 protein design model and its ability to create functional protein interfaces computationally.

Alex Tamkin

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author of study on analyst capture by AI agent preferences.

Said at press briefing that Apple's models are custom builds trained using proprietary data and refined using outputs from Gemini frontier models.

Reported that OpenAI uses recurrent depth technique that interferes with Chain of Thought monitorability in Astra model.

Anca Dragan

Researcher

VP, AI Safety & Alignment at Google DeepMind

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement on AI safety and alignment concerns.

Bank of England Governor who warned G20 finance ministers that frontier AI models pose cyber risks and financial stability threats.

Andrew Feldman

Founder

CEO at Cerebras Systems

Announced Cerebras raised $1.1 billion at $8.1 billion valuation to expand AI inference infrastructure and manufacturing capacity.

Andrew J Hawkins

Journalist

Writer at The Verge

Author reporting on Uber's $1.25 billion investment in Rivian for 50,000 autonomous robotaxis.

Co-authored blog post announcing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with new video generation capabilities.

Anthony Levandowski

Engineer

CEO at Pronto AI

Former Uber and Google self-driving engineer running mining autonomy startup Pronto, which Atoms acquired.

ServiceNow chairman and CEO joined Jensen Huang during opening keynote at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 to announce Project Arc autonomous desktop agent.

Co-authored paper on agentic AI discussing emergence of intelligence through multi-agent social interactions.

Bryan Catanzaro

Executive

Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Resigned after three months as director of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation.

Cybersecurity expert warning about autonomous ransomware attacks and AI's role in magnifying attacker capabilities.

Goodin reported on Wikimedia's allegations that OpenAI agents attempted to hack its tools and made unauthorized edits.

Dan Milmo

Journalist

Journalist at The Guardian

Byline author reporting on OpenAI's disclosure of AI model misalignment incidents and safety concerns.

Dara Khosrowshahi

Executive

CEO at Uber

Declared Uber is building the best platform for flexible work and launched AI microtasks pilot for drivers to train AI models.

Dave Friedman

Creator

Amplifier Builder

Author of Substack piece analyzing closed-source vs open-source AI models and the monetizable spread thesis.

Praised Muse Spark 1.1 as awesome model for running agents with OpenClaw.

Led research combining advanced AI tools to create new cysteine and zinc proteases from scratch.

David Duvenaud

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Senior author and advisor on the SWE-chat dataset project studying human-AI coding interactions.

Edward Hughes

Founder

Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Inherent

DeepMind alumni co-founder and chief scientist of Inherent; says AI agent Faraday outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at replicating scientific research.

Elena Verna

Executive

Head of Growth at Lovable

Discussed how AI startups must find product-market fit every three months and how the growth playbook has fundamentally changed for AI companies.

Evan Armstrong, formerly of Every, analyzed Anthropic's S-1 IPO filing for valuation justification.

Gabe Pereyra

Founder

Co-founder at Harvey AI

Co-author of Harvey Tenet post-training research on Kimi K3 for legal AI.