People in AI

Appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust; brings expertise on economic impacts of AI from Federal Reserve experience and Great Depression research.

Blake Barnes

Executive

Vice President of Product at Google

Discussed Gmail's new AI features powered by Gemini 3, stating 'This is us delivering on Gmail proactively having your back.'

Cameron Adams

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Canva

Quoted praising Meta's Muse agent for its ability to integrate with existing work tools and help small businesses.

Charles Porch

Executive

Vice President of Global Creative Partnerships at OpenAI

Charles Porch joined OpenAI as VP of Global Creative Partnerships, a newly created position, with 15+ years at Meta/Instagram leading cultural initiatives and artist partnerships.

Announced MPA's first AI copyright agreement with ByteDance, implementing guardrails into Seedance and Seedream models.

Chris Clark

Executive

Chief Operating Officer at OpenRouter

OpenRouter COO discussing how token-hungry AI agents have driven demand for model routing to manage AI costs.

Departed from OpenAI where he oversaw data center strategy and infrastructure; his team reporting was reorganized under VP Sachin Katti.

Author discussing Sunday Robotics Series B funding and their zero robot data approach using glove-style data collection.

Told investors that customers are pushing demand forecasts higher due to AI buildout expectations and some are asking about order slots for 2029-2030.

Former MongoDB CEO hired by Meta to lead new enterprise platform including Muse agent and coding tools.

Praised OpenAI's cyber capabilities for bringing stronger reasoning and agentic execution into security workflows.

OpenAI CISO quoted on Daybreak Cyber Partner Program collaboration with IBM.

Discussed how Groq 3 LPX is built to accelerate token generation and confirmed Nebius as first AI cloud adopting it for production inference.

Discussed OpenAI's $38 billion deal with AWS for cloud infrastructure capacity including hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs.

David Eckstein

Executive

CFO at Legora

Legal AI company CFO explaining that M&A is used to accelerate product development faster than building in-house.

David Wadhwani

Executive

President of Digital Media at Adobe

Quoted about Adobe's shift into agentic creativity with the Firefly AI Assistant.

Member of Modal team that helped optimize DFlash integration into SGLang inference engine.

David Zinsner

Executive

Chief Financial Officer at Intel

Intel's CFO discussed supply constraints, long-term customer agreements, and increased capital expenditure targeting meaningful increases next year.

Vice president at NVIDIA discussing NVIDIA Halos for Robotics and physical AI safety systems.

Anthropic executive who explained the goal of making Mythos-level intelligence broadly available through Claude Fable 5 without exposing users to risks that kept the technology restricted.

Dina Powell McCormick

Executive

President and Vice Chairman at Meta

Appointed as Meta's President and Vice Chairman to help guide strategy, manage AI infrastructure investments, and build strategic capital partnerships.

Stated that AI ECG technology has potential to identify high-risk patients early and fast-track them for treatment.

Drew Pusateri

Executive

Director of Strategic Communications at OpenAI

OpenAI spokesperson stated the company was reviewing 'misaligned model activity' and notifying third parties of potential impacts to their systems.

Dylan Scandinaro

Executive

Head of Preparedness at OpenAI

No longer serving as head of preparedness but remains at company; was poached from Anthropic and previously tasked with mitigating catastrophic AI risks.

Eric Horvitz

Executive

Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft

Warned that AI advances are fueling breakthroughs in biology and medicine but emphasized the need for vigilance and thoughtful risk management regarding biosecurity risks.

Gabi Zijderveld

Executive

CMO at Affectiva

Discussed Affectiva's Emotion AI technology and its applications in automotive industry for understanding human emotions and cognitive states.

Garrett Langley

Executive

Founder & CEO at Flock Safety

Repeatedly misrepresented details of abortion surveillance case and made false claims about search motivations to law enforcement customers.

Co-author of RFC 9309 Robots Exclusion Protocol and draft-ietf-aipref-attach-05 on associating AI usage preferences with content in HTTP.

Gustav Söderström

Executive

Co-CEO at Spotify

Stated that Spotify's best developers have not written a single line of code since December, using AI coding systems instead.

Announced LinkedIn's AI slop button and reported that users are experiencing 40% fewer views on posts classified as AI slop.

Harley Finkelstein

Executive

President at Shopify

Quoted explaining how Shopify is bringing agents to millions of entrepreneurs through Muse with full access to commerce infrastructure.

Led development of K2 Think reasoning model that rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek at fraction of the size.

Henry Papadatos, executive director of SaferAI nonprofit, discusses the safety gap between frontier AI capabilities and open-weight models, warning about risks of releasing highly capable AI systems.

Hyrum Anderson

Executive

CTO at Robust Intelligence

AI security expert warning about vulnerability of public and private organizations to agentic attacks.

Jack Brody

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Suno

Describes the design philosophy and features of Suno's v6 music generation models, explaining the rationale for wild and mini variants and new capabilities.

Jack Forestell

Executive

Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Visa

Visa executive who discussed the company's collaboration with Anthropic on commerce blueprints, emphasizing trust and merchant control in agentic commerce.

Discussed Caterpillar's deployment of AI tools including the Cat AI Assistant and plans to spend $100 million training 118,000 employees in AI and autonomy.

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement noting frontier AI agents can discover and exploit real vulnerabilities.

AWS executive overseeing partnership with The Biological Computing Co., speaking about leveraging neuron-derived AI optimization.

Discussed Vera CPU orchestration of data in megascale data centers for AI workloads.

Jeff Wang

Executive

CEO at Windsurf

Quoted on how Devin responds in Slack autonomously and brings the right people together in code channels.

Jim Farley

Executive

CEO at Ford Motor Company

Ford CEO emphasized that old-fashioned hard work and human attention to detail matter more than automation in vehicle quality.

Semiconductor legend leading Tenstorrent's Series E funding round and positioning the company as alternative to Nvidia GPUs.

Co-leads Google and NASA partnership on robotic systems for deep space missions using AI vision-language-action models.

Joe Binder

Executive

VP of Product at GitHub

Announced GitHub Copilot's shift to consumption-based pricing and usage limits due to agentic workflows.

Joe Gershenson

Executive

Lead, Core Agent team at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about agentic software development and AI-driven agent systems.

Joe Hudson

Executive

Executive Coach at Self-employed/Executive Coach

Executive coach whose clients include leaders building AGI at OpenAI, discusses personal growth with AI on podcast

Reported seeing a huge number of inbound enterprise and government interest in Cohere's AI following US restrictions on Anthropic's models.

Karan Singhal

Executive

Head of Health AI at OpenAI

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior and health AI applications.

Ke Yang co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Ford COO stated that veteran engineers hunt for failure points before parts reach the plant floor and reprogram AI tools.

Liz Shuler

Executive

President at AFL-CIO

Announced workers first initiative on AI calling for stronger collective bargaining and regulations to limit negative effects of AI on workers.

CEO who implemented decentralized decision-making and radical trust in employees to drive innovation

Pinterest executive discussing new AI-powered Beauty Guides feature that uses visual AI and search data to help users recreate beauty looks.

Product manager at Google who discussed the new AI-powered language learning features in Google Translate during a press briefing.

Described Isomorphic Labs' $300M investment in Virtual Biology Initiative as founding member to build multimodal data foundation for biology AI.

Max Schwarzer

Executive

Post Training Lead at OpenAI

Now oversees the Model Behavior team as part of OpenAI's research reorganization.

Michele Catasta

Executive

President & Head of AI at Replit

Byline author announcing Replit Free Mode with new UI for seamless transitions between chat and complex builds.

Led MyFitnessPal's acquisition of Cal AI and integrated the AI app with MFP's nutrition database of 20 million foods.

Crampton is the Chief Responsible AI Officer at Microsoft and authored the foreword to Microsoft's 2025 Responsible AI Transparency Report.

Neal Mohan

Executive

CEO at YouTube

Interviewed about YouTube's AI integration and the platform's shift toward AI-enhanced video creation features.

IBM's CHRO stated the company plans to triple entry-level hiring and warned that not investing in entry-level talent will dry up the pipeline in 3-5 years.

Omar Shahine

Executive

Corporate Vice President at Microsoft

Led Microsoft Scout agent development, discussed persistent agentic assistant design.

Patrick Wendell

Executive

Lead of product development teams at Databricks

Discussed bringing Row Zero's spreadsheet experience to Genie, Databricks' AI coworker, for business teams.

Pavan Davuluri

Executive

CVP at Microsoft

Authored blog post on Windows leveraging AI to enhance vulnerability discovery, reduce fix times, and deliver timely security updates.

Chief business officer of Google discussing ad revenue, AI monetization, and YouTube performance in Q3 2026.

Announced Google's $15.1 billion investment in Finland and commitment to AI infrastructure expansion with energy partnerships.

Part of new Copilot leadership team leading Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot platform alongside Jacob Andreou.

Discussed Cursor's launch of localized subscription pricing in India as part of expansion strategy.

Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group announced multi-year licensing agreement with ElevenLabs for AI-powered music creation platform.

Announced M6 and M5 Ultra chips as major leap in performance and AI compute for Apple silicon.

Sulman Choudhry

Executive

Head of Engineering, ChatGPT at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about Codex integration and changes to engineering practices.

Sumit Chauhan

Executive

Corporate Vice President at Microsoft

Led Microsoft's Office Product Group and discussed improvements in Copilot Agent Mode for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Named in Apple's lawsuit as having spent 24 years at Apple and directing job candidates to bring physical Apple parts and design artifacts to OpenAI interviews.

Netflix co-CEO discussing how generative AI was used to create complex sequences at half the cost and twice the speed in shows like The American Experiment.

Tom Calloway

Executive

Head of Medical at Midjourney

Midjourney's head of medical stated the scanner will launch as a wellness product focused on body composition to avoid FDA requirements.

Wrote about Google Labs expanding CC AI agent to help families and households coordinate schedules.

Discussed failures of early AI gadgets like Rabbit R1 and Humane Ai pin, and discussed challenges of building consumer AI assistants with privacy and trust.

Discussed Rolls-Royce's plan to power AI with small modular nuclear reactors and potential to become UK's most valuable company.

Venkat Venkataramani

Executive

VP of Engineering, Applied Infra at OpenAI

Engineering leader at OpenAI interviewed about Codex-driven engineering processes and how AI has transformed the company's workflows.

NFL Deputy CIO explaining how AI helps coaches and players filter game data in real-time during matches

Discussed meaningful human oversight of agent decisions in cybersecurity context.

Adam Smith

Executive

Writing Director at Larian Studios

His late 1700s attempt to discover universal economic laws inspired by Newton is cited as an example of applying scientific rationality to business.

Announced strategic partnership between Zoox and Uber to deploy purpose-built robotaxis on Uber platform starting in Las Vegas summer 2026 and Los Angeles mid-2027.

Leaving Apple's UI design leadership to join Meta to oversee AI and hardware integration design.

COO joining Groq leadership from xAI and Meta Datacenters with submarine operations background.

Featured on Darktrace's advisory board as former CIA CIO

Announced the GenAI Creators' Fund and Project Nara, a collaborative AI production workspace integrated with industry-standard creative tools.

Ale Iraheta

Executive

Spokesperson at Amazon

Amazon spokesperson confirming that the Ask this Book feature is always on with no opt-out option for authors or publishers.

Alex Chriss

Executive

President and CEO at PayPal

Announced PayPal's deal with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet into ChatGPT for e-commerce transactions.

Newly appointed CMO from Superhuman discussing Otter's focus on meeting-heavy roles and pre-meeting briefs.

Alex Singla

Executive

Senior Partner 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.

Discussed Muse's computer interaction capabilities and connectors for integrating with third-party applications.

Alexandre Moufarek

Executive

Director at Google DeepMind

Co-author describing Google DeepMind's partnership training agents in isolated EVE Online servers for testing long-term memory and multi-agent behavior.

Deezer CEO who announced the company's AI music detection technology and statistics on AI-generated music fraud.

Announced NVIDIA's role in autonomous vehicle deployment collaboration with Wayve and Stellantis in France.

Ali McCadden

Executive

Microsoft

Referenced in "Microsoft Gives NFL Coaches AI-Powered Tablets"

Author discussing long-horizon agents for business operations

Ami Vora delivered the opening keynote at Code with Claude SF event about Anthropic's latest announcements.

A Google veteran named head of AI infrastructure reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Amit Zavery

Executive

President, COO, and CPO at ServiceNow

Announced ServiceNow's multi-year agreement with OpenAI to integrate frontier models into enterprise workflows.

Google engineer ported Command & Conquer: Generals to iPhone and iPad using Claude Fable 5.

Microsoft's CPO and 27-year veteran who announced the 4,800 job cuts and discussed AI's impact on work

Discussed AI agents moving from reactive tools to proactive partners that predict behavior and enhance human productivity.

IBM executive discussing CIO accountability for AI deployment, governance, and scaling challenges in enterprise.

Andy Burrows

Executive

Chief Executive at Molly Rose Foundation

Chief executive questioning Character.ai's motivations and criticizing the company for acting only after media and political pressure.

Author of "Gemini Live: A More Helpful, Natural, and Visual Assistant"

Anupam Pathak

Executive

R&D Lead at Google Platforms and Devices

Tested Gemini 3 Deep Think to accelerate the design of physical components.

Senior vice president at Shield AI overseeing X-BAT aircraft development and stating the team is testing early and often while working on aircraft components.

Quoted explaining how connecting Dropbox to Muse helps small businesses access and organize their files in agent workflows.

Bar Winkler leads Wonderful as CEO and co-founder, announcing the $550 million Series C funding round at a $5 billion valuation.

Discussed how Anthropic is building AI that people can trust in complex financial environments through work with Millennium.

Author of "New Methodology to Measure the Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of AI Models" in Google

Reddit's Chief Legal Officer quoted defending the lawsuit and explaining why Reddit is a prime scraping target.

Ben Tossell

Executive

Head of Developer Relations at Factory AI

Head of developer relations at Factory who uses Droid despite not being able to code, automating tasks from financial analysis to YouTube transcripts.

Beren Millidge

Executive

CTO at Zyphra

CTO of Zyphra developing open source models, discussed recursive self-improvement and AI research frontiers in podcast.

Announced Amazon's layoffs of 16,000 corporate employees and organizational restructuring.

Bill Ready

Executive

CEO at Pinterest

Highlighted the promise of open source AI models for keeping costs down while expanding visual AI use cases including personalized recommendations and multimodal search.

CEO of Standard Chartered who announced 7,000 job cuts partly due to AI and later apologised for describing it as replacing lower-value human capital.

Global managing partner of McKinsey who stated the firm will continue hiring while building AI agents, envisioning one AI agent for every human employee.

Bobby Holley

Executive

CTO at Mozilla

Revealed that Anthropic's Mythos model found 271 vulnerabilities in latest Firefox build.

Director who discussed Walmart's digital twins technology and reported 30% reduction in emergency alerts and 19% reduction in refrigeration maintenance costs

CVP of Surface at Microsoft describing Surface Laptop Ultra as most powerful Surface Laptop designed for RTX Spark.

Republican veteran selected to run Meta's new super PAC fighting state AI regulations

Meta VP of public policy defending the new group's mission to support AI-friendly state candidates

Interim CEO of HP describing upcoming RTX Spark-powered OmniBook laptops combining performance and efficiency.

Demonstrated Agent 365 on The Neuron LIVE to show enterprise AI governance and security controls in action.

Promoted from SVP of global operations to COO and leads operational AI initiatives to eliminate manual work.

Author of "Microsoft Ships Copilot Function In Excel, Letting You To Run Ai Prompts Directly In Spreadsheet Cel"

Informed Apple of price increases and changing production capacity priorities favoring AI chip clients.

Broadcom executive stated that OpenAI is not the mystery $10 billion customer previously disclosed.

Expected to reveal Lloyds' AI strategy; previously stated AI would reduce jobs 'in some areas' while the bank hires 300 AI specialists.

OpenAI's General Counsel was incorrectly identified by Apple's legal team in email communications.

Internal Anthropic employee using Claude Duet to process her to-do list and generate evening reports.

Author of article about Substack launching AI detection feature with Pangram to show how much text was written by humans versus AI.

Intuit executive who discussed building personalized financial experiences using Claude and Intuit's proprietary data and capabilities.

Announced new Oracle Fusion Agentic Applications powered by Fusion Claw at Oracle AI World.

Substack CEO announcing new AI detection features integrated with Pangram tool to flag AI-generated content.

AWS security leader reporting detection of exploitation attempts against honeypot systems four days before PHP vulnerability disclosure

Priceline executive who discussed building Penny, an AI assistant for complex trip planning, on Claude for its reasoning capabilities.

Chief Product Officer discussing Yelp's AI video generation strategy and user controls

Expanding AI-ready powered shells with direct-to-chip liquid-cooling infrastructure for high-density AI workloads.

Emphasized ubiquity of AI agents in every process and expectations for digital assistance in workplace.

Co-author of 'Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT' who argues AI can be good or bad for learning depending on how it's used.

Former CEO of PayPal, came out of retirement to lead Verizon's transformation focusing on culture change and AI adoption in the telecom industry.

Dan Taylor

Executive

VP, Google Ads at Google

Dan Taylor stated in January that there were no ads in Google's Gemini app.

Daniel Adonai

Executive

Google Labs

Co-author of the article about Pomelli

CEO of UiPath who conducted insider share sales totaling over $1.4 million, contributing to stock decline concerns.

DCL Logistics president who discussed SaaS fatigue and the value of platform consolidation in fleet operations.

Bermbach discussed ARRI's partnership with HONOR to bring professional cinema workflows to smartphone imaging.

David Brown

Executive

Vice President, Compute & ML Services at Amazon Web Services

Announced AWS and Cerebras partnership deploying CS-3 systems for high-speed AI inference, combining Trainium and Cerebras WSE for disaggregated inference.

Developing liquid-cooled, high-density AI factory infrastructure built on NVIDIA DSX.

SVP who explained how the Associate Agent serves as a single point of entry for employees to access all backend agents

Told CNBC that Muse already had millions of US users following its September launch.

Co-leading the Latinitas project on AI for Latin text analysis.

Chief analyst provides perspective on Meta surpassing earnings expectations and ability to fund AI investments.

Deepa Subramaniam

Executive

VP of product marketing for Creative Cloud at Adobe

VP discussed Adobe's acquisition of Topaz Labs and integration of its AI models into Firefly and other creative suites for video and image enhancement.

Pradeep discusses Adobe's strategy of making creative tools available across multiple AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, and Slack.

Quoted responding to Reddit's lawsuit allegations against Oxylabs, defending the company's public data collection practices

Group Chief Technology and Data Officer discussing how AI ethics in Africa must be grounded in local realities and African values.

Dion Harris

Executive

Senior Director of AI Infrastructure Solutions at Nvidia

Explained the benefits of Nvidia's new storage architecture for addressing memory demands of modern AI systems like agentic AI.

Announced Ford's AI-powered voice assistant and L3 autonomous driving features, stating they're developing technology in-house to make it more affordable.

Walmart CEO quoted on the company's shift toward AI-powered shopping experiences and multi-media personalized interfaces.

Announced Patreon's use of Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers, stating creators deserve control over how AI uses their work.

Wix executive who discussed the simplicity of implementing Anthropic's commerce blueprint and combining it with Wix's commerce platform.

Compared Gemini 4 Argon's benchmaxxing to a student getting top SAT scores without real-world skills.

Elias Roman

Executive

Google Labs

Author of "ProducerAI Joins Google Labs" in Google

Elijah Lawal

Executive

Spokesperson at Google

Google spokesperson discussing the company's approach to safeguards and personalization features in Gemini.

Published blog post describing Google's major AI search overhaul with Gemini 3.5 Flash and new search agents.

Emily Cohen

Executive

Partner at Cognition

Early Cognition investor from Neo who left her job to join the startup full time and believes the current phase represents a transformational technology shift.

Chief investment strategist commenting on Musk's leadership in AI and space technology and the long-term vision of the merger

Forrest Norrod

Executive

Executive VP and GM of Data Center Solutions Group at AMD

Discussed AMD's Helios platform for AI infrastructure, emphasizing open collaboration and scalability.

New CFO hired from KPMG consulting, with prior finance experience at Uber and Shield AI.

NFL Chief Information Officer discussing Microsoft partnership and AI opportunities for the league

Gautam Gupta

Executive

Chief Financial Officer at Atoms

Former Uber finance chief who joined Atoms as CFO weeks after the company raised $1.7 billion; spent more than four years at Uber until July 2017.

Gautham Thambidorai

Executive

VP of Engineering at Google

Quoted on Agent Compute Engine's role in scaling Gemini agents globally with responsive hardware-isolated infrastructure.

Graham James

Executive

Spokesperson at The New York Times

Spokesperson for The New York Times commenting on the lawsuit against Perplexity for unlicensed content use.

Del Toro expressed strong opposition to AI infiltrating creative spaces, calling it disrespectful to the craft.

Leads Microsoft's work on agentic security; introduced Guardian Agents framework to monitor and moderate AI agents in enterprise.

Oracle's new CFO who stated net cash outlay for capex in fiscal 2027 will be around $70 billion, excluding customer prepayments.

CEO of Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) announcing the company's independence and partnership with Google DeepMind to use EVE Online as an AI research testbed.

Igor Tsyganskiy discussed Microsoft's participation in Project Glasswing and use of Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity.

Jack Cable

Executive

CEO at Corridor

Co-authored research on rogue AI agents probing U.S. and Canadian government websites.

Chief legal officer at a16z who co-authored arguments against state-level AI regulation.

James Reggio

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Brex

Builds AI platform at Brex and is responsible for product AI customer-facing features.

Attended Starship V3 launch at Starbase and praised the mission as progress toward moon and Mars goals.

Jason Ginsberg

Executive

Engineer at SpaceX

Joined SpaceX from AI coding startup Cursor as part of xAI rebuild hiring strategy.

Quoted discussing AWS DevOps Agent's root cause identification in under 15 minutes for complex issues.

Byline author on Cohere's acquisition of AISLE for AI-powered vulnerability detection.

Discussed financial implications of 6 gigawatt partnership with OpenAI expected to deliver tens of billions in revenue.

Jediah Katz

Executive

Software Engineer at Cursor

Co-authored article about continually improving Cursor's agent harness.

Jeetu Patel

Executive

President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco

Promoted 27-year-old Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy to lead code refactoring project with AI; advocates hiring Gen Z talent.

Hugging Face executive praising TorchNeuron making Trainium a native backend for Transformers and Diffusers.

Joined Netomi's Board of Directors as part of WndrCo's investment; quoted on Netomi delivering on enterprise AI promise.

Head of Grammarly for Education, quoted on how new AI agents enhance student capabilities while supporting learning.

CFO of JPMorgan Chase, mentioned regarding tech budget and AI strategy

Author of "Context Engineering" in Anthropic

Led the technical execution of the FDA's Adverse Event Monitoring System consolidation and modernization.

Joe Atkinson

Executive

Global Chief AI Officer at PwC

Described the pattern of AI leaders pointing AI at growth rather than just cost reduction in PwC study.

CEO who stated that demand for cloud computing and generative AI infrastructure shows no signs of slowing.