People in AI

Commented on the availability of Mistral Document AI with OCR 4 in Microsoft Foundry as a partnership milestone.

Convened meeting with AI executives warning of existential dangers of AI and calling for stronger safeguards before deployment.

Wrote article about Loop Marketing playbook combining AI efficiency with human authenticity for small business growth.

Kiran Vodrahalli

Researcher

research scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author on the Continual Harness research study on ARC-AGI-3.

Kirsten Green, a partner at Forerunner, led SuperMe's $20 million funding round and discussed the platform's approach to human-AI collaboration.

Former UK Government energy department official warns that AI infrastructure faces a physical scaling wall due to multi-year lead times for high-voltage transformers and electrical components.

Discussed the underrepresentation of Gen Z in medical trials and its health implications.

Guest on Animalz podcast discussing how enterprise content marketing is changing with AI; previously led content at Sprinklr, Whatfix, and Freshworks.

Kishwar Shafin

Engineer

Technical Lead at Google Research

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI-powered tool that identifies cancer-related mutations in tumor genetic sequences.

Kitty Chrisp

Journalist

freelance journalist

Author of "Tom Holland Out of Running for James Bond Role"

Announced Schaeffler's partnership and investment in NEURA Robotics for humanoid robotics technology.

Sardeli commented that once media is fed into AI models, users lose practical control over how it is used.

Knut Risvik

Researcher

Researcher at Microsoft

Co-authored research on the Harrier embedding model.

Collaborated with Swayam Prakash on development of rapid water contamination test using optical sensing.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Attended OpenClaw meet-up in Beijing and commented on its popularity.

Kol Tregaskes

Other

ChatGPT user who shared the screenshot demonstrating GPT-5's 'I don't know' response

Kola Ayonrinde released J++ Lens, an improved Jacobian Lens for more faithful model interpretability visualizations.

Byline author of Quanta Magazine article on how AI models are solving legendary Erdős mathematical problems.

Lead author of CIGaRS framework study for simulation-based inference on supernovae data.

Co-founder of Oumi, former Google staff engineer who also worked at Microsoft.

Co-authored Toyota's technical account of the O-Beya implementation using Azure Cosmos DB.

Co-author of paper introducing String Seed of Thought prompting method for improving LLM probabilistic instruction following.

Co-author on DeepSWE project contributing expertise in software testing and agent verification.

Providing fuel cells for data centers needing on-site power for AI infrastructure.

Roboticist praising Eka's robot capability to adapt without retraining and bridging generality-performance gap in robotics.

Brief mention in closing comment about ads featuring her in relation to smart glasses

Co-author of article on how AI agents orchestrate work across enterprise silos.

Kris Marszalek

Executive

CEO at Crypto.com

Announced a 12% workforce reduction while integrating enterprise-wide AI, stating companies that don't make this pivot immediately will fail.

Introduced Natural Direct, enabling agents to choose among ACH, Wire, Realtime, and paper checks for diverse financial transactions.

Analyst noted incomplete AI strategy as biggest overhang on Apple shares

Editor credited in the reporting byline

Published Microsoft's Bing Blog post on clearer preferences for training and grounding on October 30, 2026.

Analyzed CrowdStrike's SafeMind keynote and called framing a wake-up call for industry.

Marketing expert commenting on how LinkedIn and YouTube signals affect AI citation visibility.

Georgieva warned that 40% of jobs worldwide could be augmented or eliminated by AI, calling for government preconditions like electricity access and digital infrastructure.

Research team member contributing to AI model for identifying patient health risks from sleep studies.

Kristen French

Journalist

Freelance science journalist and editor at Nautilus magazine

Journalist who conducted an interview with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith about AI consciousness.

Kristen Gonzalez

Policy

State Senator at New York State

Sponsored bill banning unsafe AI chatbot features for minors including those pretending to be human.

Announced Cloudflare's relaunched startups program with up to $350k in credits and faster review process.

Reported on MIT FutureTech and University of Queensland study ranking 24 AI risk domains by severity and likelihood.

AP revenue executive highlighting 200% growth in revenue from technology companies and new AI-related business partnerships.

Kristin Robinson

Journalist

Billboard

Author of "Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck fo" in Billboard

Author of "Firefox Lets Users Block All AI Features With One Toggle"

Kristina Partsinevelos

Journalist

Nasdaq Correspondent at CNBC

Referenced in "Meta Expands Nvidia Deal to Use Millions of AI Chips" in CNBC

Parent whose 9-year-old daughter experienced distress using IXL personalized learning software at Alpha School microschool

Profound team member announcing integration of Moz search visibility data into their platform.

Contributing researcher to the strategic workforce planning research

Krupa Dave

Creator

Author of "Dive Into Transformer Architectures: Attention, Stacks, Modern LLMs" in krupadave.com

Vandalia Health SVP praising electrophysiology team's achievement as first hospital to perform AI-assisted heart ablation procedure.

Krystal Scanlon

Journalist

Reporter at Digiday

Reported on OpenAI's new AI-native ad format allowing branded agent chats within ChatGPT rather than redirecting to websites.

Krystian Kolondra

Executive

EVP Browsers at Opera

Announced Opera Neon, an AI-centric browser with agentic features for creating apps through AI prompts.

Venture capital partner who co-led Capsa AI Series A funding, discussing vertical AI infrastructure for financial services.

Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski

Engineer

Staff Product Security Engineer

Described Claude Security's ability to surface novel security findings during early testing.

Byline author reporting on UniX AI's global expansion and planned IPO.

Kseniia Lysaniuk is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report describing pre-training and post-training methodology for the MoE model.

Author of "WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Sc" on arXiv

Created OPINIONS.md file updated daily by Hermes agent to consolidate public opinions into a digestible format for agent alignment.

Kunal Dhawan

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model project.

Co-authored research on process-driven image generation architecture.

Kuranoo Narumi

Creator

Band Leader at AKB48

AKB48's current band leader chosen by Akimoto to perform lead vocals on his song 'Cécile'.

Leads Legal AI efforts at Blackstone; stated Norm offers premium legal services with fundamentally different operating model.

External reviewer of the technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Author of "Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence" in Essential AI

Kush Agarwal uses Demi and trusts its email draft quality.

Kush Desai

Executive

Deputy Press Secretary at White House

White House deputy press secretary commented that the partnership is a major milestone for American high-tech manufacturing.

Co-founded Wexler in January 2023, a fact intelligence platform acquired by Legora for extracting and verifying facts in litigation documents.

Expert discussing how early-stage psychosis patients may be at higher risk from AI chatbot interactions.

Head of international AI governance at Beijing-based AI safety organization; notes Chinese policymakers see AI as general-purpose technology like electricity.

Kwang Mo Koo signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA for developing humanoid robots and AI infrastructure, stating goals to accelerate AI adoption across industries.

Kwangjun Ahn

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Ahn co-authored research on full-stack orthogonal updates for training optimization.

Kwindla Kramer, Daily's co-founder, explained his decision to accept Deepgram's acquisition based on the company's commitment to keeping Pipecat open source.

Kyle Barr

Journalist

Gizmodo

Author of "OpenAI's Sam Altman Thinks This ChatGPT Short Story Is Beautiful, But It's Just Trash" in Gizmodo

Kyle Chan

Researcher

Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings

Quoted discussing how Chinese AI models are attractive to American companies as AI costs rise.

Author writing about risks of LLM summarization of legal advice to clients

Kyle Fish

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored research on the Assistant Axis for stabilizing language model personas.

Co-authored Deloitte report on AI governance in the workplace.

Kyle Harrison

Creator

Author at Contrary Research

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

Wrote about Moderna's AI algorithms that predict neoantigens from patient tumor mutations.

Kyle Jeong

Engineer

Growth Engineer at Browserbase

Developer who dived into how Astra's computer use works.

Kyle Kosic

Founder

Co-founder at xAI

Co-founder who has departed xAI.

Kyle Peterdy

Creator

VP, CBCA at CFI

Author of "What Appears as Irreplaceable Intuition Is Rapid Data Processing"

Kyle Polley

Engineer

Security Staff at Perplexity

Stated that building security into Comet browser was a priority from the beginning and that 1Password is a natural partner for credential security.

Contributed to mapping predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes as part of the AlphaGenome Atlas team.

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

Kyle Sargent

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-author of GPIC paper on a giant permissive image corpus for visual generation model training.

Kyle Swanson

Engineer

PhD student in computer science at Stanford University

Computer scientist who helped develop Virtual Lab, an early academic AI research-assistant platform.

Cruise founder who participated in Vercept's angel funding round.

Announced Claude Enterprise spend controls for managing autonomous agents and tracking model usage.

Kyuyoung Kim authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report documenting a 30B model for local agents with four-bit quantization and tool use.

Historical figure whose grief after the 1513 Battle of Flodden inspired the film's narrative

Lai Shiyang

Researcher

PhD Student at University of Chicago

Co-authored research on how reasoning models simulate multi-agent interactions for enhanced reasoning capability.

Co-author of MoDA paper on attention mechanisms for language model improvements.

Co-founder of Simile; leads go-to-market strategy for the synthetic population simulation platform.

CEO of Finpilot who led shift from public market research to allocator investment management using AI agents.

Lale Akoner

Other

Global Market Strategist at eToro

Analyzed Anthropic IPO prospectus, noting company must prove ability to convert rapid revenue growth into sustainable profits.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Author of "The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox"

Co-author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical treatment.

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

Google researcher who led study on how internal model representations shift over conversations, showing concepts like factuality are fluid and context-dependent.

Lan Guan

Executive

Chief AI and Data Officer at Accenture

Said OpenAI's Frontier Alliances serve as an example of how product, consulting, and strategy companies should come together to accelerate AI deployment.

Professor teaching integrated marketing communications who researched parental AI use, finding overwhelmed parents lack time to trust and incorporate AI while busy parents feel guilt replacing emotional support.

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap on next-generation AI infrastructure needs.

SLAC physicist who validated Claude's nine-loop amplitude result and provided an addendum explaining the significance.

Lance Fuchia

Other

External Contributor at OpenAI

Outstanding external contributor to FrontierCode benchmark development.

VP of Data Centers leading the Poolside Infrastructure Company for Project Horizon development.

Lance Ulanoff

Journalist

Editor At Large at TechRadar

Author of "ChatGPT Just Wrote the Most Beautiful Short Story and I Wonder What I'm Even Doing Here" in TechRadar

Tested and compared ChatGPT and Perplexity AI voice assistants on Apple CarPlay across 12 different tasks.

Lance Ying

Researcher

postdoc researcher at MIT at MIT

Author of "AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence wi" on arXiv

Formerly head of legal for Uber's autonomous mobility and delivery business; hired as general counsel at Bedrock Robotics.

Landon Cox co-authored the GitHub post describing GitHub Agent Workflows token efficiency optimization.

Co-author on research developing benchmarks for evaluating frontier LLMs as research interns.

Lara Altaweel, an electrical engineering student, contributed to the MyoStep exoskeleton development.

Lareina Yee

Researcher

Senior Partner, Director of Technology Research at McKinsey Global Institute, Global Head of McKinsey Alliances at McKinsey

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

Byline author reporting on Ecosia search engine dropping Mistral AI partnership for open-source models.

Author of "Constellation Research" in Constellation Research

BitKeeper creator mentioned in context of licensing disagreements that led to Git's creation

Harvard president emeritus serving on University of Austin's Board of Advisors.

Lars Brandle

Journalist

Author of "Universal Music Group Is Expanding Its Physical Retail Push With New UMusic Shop Storefronts"

Collaborated on TurboQuant vector compression research.

Tesla VP who stated Optimus production was ahead of schedule

Lars Sandved-Smith

Researcher

PhD Student at Monash University

Author of "Contemplative Artificial Intelligence" on arXiv

Referenced as someone both the author and Oks are fans of.

Laura Bennett

Journalist

Journalist at The Atlantic

Author reporting on Unitree unveiling the GD01 mech suit and robot combat demonstrations.

Served as interim CEO for the past two years; replaced by Enzor-DeMeo in the management transition.

Lead author on MIT paper about Wave-Former, a generative AI system for through-occlusion 3D reconstruction via wireless shape completion.

Synthesia executive discussing the company's move to King's Cross for proximity to investors and ability to hire international talent remotely.

Laura Graesser

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Co-author of post introducing Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 with enhanced embodied reasoning capabilities.

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

Led Microsoft's efforts to create the AI-powered Theodore Roosevelt avatar and technology powering the library's knowledge base.

Reported and produced the Tech Policy Press episode on AI companions and dark patterns in chatbots.

Laura Leal-Taixe

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA Research

Laura Leal-Taixe co-authored WorldTrace, a framework for video world models with addressable memory.

Laura Lindeman

Executive

GitHub Staff at GitHub

Author of the article about developer expertise in the AI era

Lead researcher on Harvard study analyzing gender gaps in AI usage, awareness, trust, and representation.

Lawyer representing families in chatbot harm lawsuits who criticized vague language in state chatbot safety bills.

Analyst claiming Apple is one to two years behind competitors in AI

Describes the firm's strategy of doubling down on AI expertise and being selective with portfolio companies

Former Google employee who resigned over Project Maven, told Fortune that workers today have less influence than they once did on military AI projects.

Schulz found that explicit instruction limits children's curiosity, a pattern that mirrors how AI instruction-giving may limit user curiosity.

Laura Silver

Researcher

Researcher at Pew Research Center

Byline author on Pew Research survey about global views on AI and job displacement.

Announced new OneGov agreement with OpenAI offering discounted token-based pricing for ChatGPT starting October 1.

Stated that white-collar jobs are more likely to have a high degree of transformation from generative AI compared to blue-collar jobs.

Questioned OpenAI statistics on teen usage and found that ChatGPT cannot reliably detect child users; urged restrictions until safety improved.

Published research showing exposure to air pollution particles reduces cognitive performance and IQ, especially in children.

Lauren Almeida

Journalist

Self-employed

Author of "Writer's Block? There's an App for That"

Lauren Edmonds

Journalist

Author of "Your Face Is Now a Business Model"

Explained why Hangzhou is emerging as China's next tech hot spot following DeepSeek's success.

Security expert explaining difficulty of removing Claude from integrated Pentagon systems.

Founding partner at Acrew Capital who recruited Rosenthal to the venture firm.

Contributed to mapping predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes as part of the AlphaGenome Atlas team.

Discussed legal liability questions surrounding rogue AI agents and the need for case law to clarify responsibilities.

Author of "VCs Now Demand AI for Startup Investment" in HubSpot for Startups

Laurent Mazaré

Founder

Co-Founder at Gradium

Co-founded Gradium with focus on real-time voice AI models and infrastructure.

Meta's VP for Europe who joined AMI Labs as COO to manage operations.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

NIST Director responsible for AI Risk Management Framework publication

Laurynas Tamulevičius co-authored the announcement of AlphaEvolve's general availability on Google Cloud, describing the agent's optimization capabilities.

Author of article on Agent Plugins as open vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills.

Lawrence Abrams

Journalist

Journalist at BleepingComputer

Reported on Vercel security breach stemming from compromised AI tool OAuth token.

Lawrence Kim stated that Yum! Brands is integrating AI as a core piece of their digital strategy and expanding Voice AI capabilities across their brands.

First person to connect two computers and responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA

Former Harvard president selected for OpenAI's board after Altman's reinstatement to oversee the investigation into allegations against Altman.

Authored technical analysis of SKILL.md format and agent skills runtime architecture.

Senior technical program manager at Microsoft Digital managing Network Outage Insights Agent for communications and monitoring.

Laya Neelakandan

Journalist

Associate General Assignment Reporter at CNBC

Reported on Visa's AI-powered dispute resolution tools designed to reduce manual processes and speed up resolution.

Lazer Cohen

Engineer

Co-founder at NanoCo

Security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, advocating for human-in-the-loop approval when AI agents access personal accounts and information.

Le Cong

Engineer

Associate Professor of Pathology and Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford scientist and co-founder of Phylo AI research platform focused on freeing researchers from routine discovery work.

Le Duc Anh Vu

Researcher

Security Researcher at Viettel Cyber Security

Hacked the Cursor AI coding agent for $30,000 during Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for reducing weight synchronization payload in async RL.

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Lech Mazur

Researcher

Founder & CEO at Advameg, Inc.

Author of mathematical paper on natural-density Collatz descent theorem formalized in Lean with AI agent assistance.

Co-authored research demonstrating that GLM 5.3 can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in Firefox using the patch gap between published fixes and user deployment.

Stated that Pinterest is building AI experiences and infrastructure to tap into user signals in more useful and relevant ways.

Author of "Meet the New Chinese Vibe Coding App That's So Popular, One of Its Tools Crashed" in Business Insider

Quoted comparing AI coding agents to 'a nuclear-powered six-axis mill' and 'a single-person software factory'.

Co-writer of Golden who accepted the best original song award.

Lee Howes

Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm

Co-authored the TorchTPU engineering post on TPU-PyTorch integration.

Tested Anthropic's Mythos AI model and stated it was a 'game-changer' for cybersecurity capabilities.

World champion Go player who was defeated by AlphaGo in 2016, marking a major milestone in AI capabilities.

Appointed as leader of Intel's Foundry division, reporting directly to CEO Lip Bu-Tan.

Lee Seung-hyun, an adjunct professor at Hanyang University, analyzed GPT-6 Astra's performance on South Korea's CSAT exam.

Co-author on Helix World, real-time interactive audio-visual world model that generates explorable scenes with spatial soundtracks.

Project lead of Claw-Eval benchmark for AI agent evaluation.

Coauthor of the study who explains findings on how gender threats affect men's sense of autonomy

Danish oncologist who rejected Watson for Oncology due to only 33% concordance with local treatment practices.

Co-founder and COO of Taalas, former AMD and Tenstorrent employee.

Author of "WhatsApp's New AI Can Help You Rephrase Your Messages"

Lennart Finke

Creator

ETH Zurich

Author of "What GPT-oss Leaks About OpenAI's Training Data" in fi-le.net

Lennart Heim

Researcher

independent researcher on semiconductors and AI policy

Co-author of an essay reframing 'rogue agent' incidents as security and governance problems rather than alignment research evidence.

Co-author of PLOS study on FDA-cleared AI medical devices and patient outcome validation.

Information systems professor who analyzed how companies like Meta are overhauling workforce and operations for AI, potentially as culture change.

Proposed bootstrap aggregating and coined the term 'bagging' in 1994 to improve classification.

Reported on 400 scientists calling for international AI containment standards and incident registry.

Co-founder of AI customer surveillance startup Outlit backed by Y Combinator.

Leo Richter contributed to research on how auditor context affects measured reward hacking in AI agents.

Theologian speaker at the Vatican launch of Magnifica Humanitas, the papal encyclical on AI.

Leon Lin

Creator

CEO of 1stCollab at 1stCollab

Author of "Gemini 3 Deep Think Reaches New SOTA on ARC-AGI-2"

Led study showing AI coding tools increase code generation by up to 180% but software releases only increase 30% due to review bottlenecks.