When blockchain first emerged, it was treated as a “great leveler”—a system where anyone could build, trade and innovate without a green light from banks or tech giants. Exactly that vision powered the first crypto wave in the early 2010s and inspired hopes that a more democratic financial internet was within reach. But today,…
An emerging trend known as “vibe coding” is changing the way software gets built. Rather than painstakingly writing every line of code themselves, developers now guide an A.I. assistant— like Copilot or ChatGPT—with plain instructions, and the A.I. generates the framework. The barrier to entry drops dramatically: someone with only a rough idea and minimal…
A.I. agents are the next big platform shift in tech, on par with the dawn of the internet 30 years ago and the rise of mobile apps a decade ago, according to OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor, who also runs his own A.I. startup, Sierra. Speaking at the Skift Global Forum in New York City yesterday…
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin is betting the company’s future growth lies outside America. Speaking at the Skift Global Forum in New York City today (Sept. 18), she said the Seattle-based travel giant, which owns Expedia, Hotels.com and Trivago, has been “leaning into our business outside of the U.S.” for the past 18 months, with…
Alex Zhavoronkov, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index, has spent his career pushing the boundaries of what A.I. can achieve in medicine. As founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, he built Pharma.AI, a platform designed to compress traditional drug development timelines from years to mere months. Already, the system has produced a breakthrough Parkinson’s…
Winston Weinberg, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index, is a lawyer turned tech entrepreneur who is redefining the practice of law with Harvey, his A.I.-powered platform for legal and professional services. Since launching in 2022, Harvey has reached $100 million in ARR in just three years, with weekly average users quadrupling over the past…
Marco Argenti, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index, is at the center of Goldman Sachs’ ambitious push to integrate A.I. across one of the world’s most tightly regulated industries. As chief information officer, Argenti leads the firm’s A.I. strategy, from piloting Cognition Labs’ coding agent Devin—the first deployment of its kind by a major…
Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor and futurist—featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index—has spent decades forecasting the trajectory of A.I. As principal researcher at Google and co-founder of robotics startup Beyond Imagination, he continues to shape both A.I. research and practical innovation. In 2024, he released The Singularity Is Nearer, a follow-up to his 2005…
Shishir Mehrotra, recognized on this year’s A.I. Power Index, has positioned Grammarly as what he calls an “A.I. superhighway” that spans over 500,000 applications. As CEO, Mehrotra is pursuing an ambitious goal: making Grammarly one of the top three or four A.I. companies globally. His strategy diverges sharply from tech giants like Microsoft and Google,…
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro, has established herself as one of the most influential leaders in A.I.-powered drug discovery, earning recognition on this year’s A.I. Power Index. After co-founding and leading Coursera to democratize education globally, Koller pivoted to tackle one of science’s most complex challenges: transforming pharmaceutical research through artificial intelligence. Under…
