Vijaye Raji, chief technology officer of OpenAI's Applications division, leads key technical teams powering ChatGPT and Codex, and said Codex has made OpenAI's engineers "10 times more productive." Th…
Eli Lilly chief information and digital officer Diogo Rau was named a TIME Executive of the Year after his team built LillyPod, an Nvidia-powered supercomputer with more than 1,000 Blackwell GPUs, in …
Pinterest chief product and technology officer Matt Madrigal said the company's "additive AI" approach, built on its decade-old proprietary Taste Graph, has helped Pinterest reach 640 million monthly …
Accenture expanded its Nvidia-backed AI Refinery platform in 2025 with industry-specific agents and governance tools and launched its Trusted Agent Huddle for multi-vendor agent collaboration across e…
Rahul Patil, named Anthropic's chief technology officer in October 2025, is managing Claude's reliability as more than 1,000 businesses spend upwards of $1 million annually on the model and Anthropic'…
Google's AI Overviews grew from 15% of searches to 43% in one year and AI Mode visits rose from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million in May 2026, according to Similarweb data cited by Vincent Schma…
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S, whose company employs more than 350,000 people, said AI will lead to more modular, agile, small teams and that managers will become player-coaches, while also proposing a t…
TIME's 2026 list of top AI leaders excludes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, according to a report from a hardware-focused publication. The omission of the two prominent semiconductor exec…
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said faster recursive self-improvement would push OpenAI's initial public offering further into the future, tying the company's listing timeline to how quickly its…
Johns Hopkins University computer scientist and healthcare technology entrepreneur Suchi Saria has been named to TIME's 2026 TIME100 AI list, recognizing influential figures in artificial intelligence…
Anima Anandkumar, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, has been named to TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI list, recognizing her decade-long work bridging AI and phys…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company may achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) this year, according to a TIME cover story published on August 26, 2026. The report, based on two weeks at Open…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a TIME interview that the company expects to have an internal AGI system by the end of 2026, but prediction markets give that outcome only a 9-15% probability. OpenAI's C…
Wafa Ben-Hassine, the U.N. Human Rights Office's first chief of digital technology and human rights, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI. She is focusing on increasing accou…
Andrea Bartz, a New York Times-bestselling thriller author, is named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI after leading a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic that resulted in a $1.5 bill…
Max Tegmark, MIT professor and founder of the Future of Life Institute (FLI), has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, as he continues to warn that the AI industry is not doing …
Senator Bernie Sanders has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, warning that AI and robotics could eliminate nearly 100 million U.S. jobs within the next decade. He has introduc…
Joe Dominguez, president and CEO of Constellation Energy, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for his role in positioning nuclear power as a key energy source for AI data ce…
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for his efforts to keep AI research open. In 2024, he launched Laude Ventures, a…
Josh Parker, who joined Nvidia in 2023 to lead sustainability strategy and public policy, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, as his team grew from two to eight people and …