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…
Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native Americans are generally thought to have been the first to tap maple trees and to turn the sap into syrup. The…
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…
Booking Holdings, the parent company of Booking.com, Priceline, Kayak and OpenTable, is pushing a “connected trip” strategy powered by generative A.I., letting customers book flights, hotels and ground transportation all at once. While the technology is new, the concept is familiar. “There used to be such a thing, it was called a human travel agent,”…
Any honest survey of power in A.I. confronts an awkward truth: influence often sits with those whose choices carry the greatest potential for harm. This reality is hardly unique to A.I. but, unlike traditional industries where effects might unfold over months or years, A.I.’s impact penetrates more sectors, into further pockets of humanity, in real…
A millennial pop-punk icon known for her trademark smoky eyes and head-bopping anthems is making her debut on the wine stage. Avril Lavigne, the eight-time Grammy-nominated songstress of the early aughts, has partnered with Geyserville’s Banshee Wines to produce a limited-release Pinot Noir from Alexander Valley. (Incidentally, Lavigne – or “la vigne” in French –…
National Hispanic Heritage Month begins on Sept. 15, and what is a celebration without delicious food? In San Diego, we’re very comfy with the dishes popular just on the other side of the border, but Mexico is a large and diverse country with other regional dishes that aren’t as well known in San Diego — and should…
Extinction is supposed to be permanent. But Colossal Biosciences, a Texas startup bent on reviving long-lost species through genetic engineering, has other ideas. The company says it has taken a pivotal step toward resurrecting the dodo, the flightless Mauritian bird that vanished in the 17th century—and it has fresh funding to fuel the effort. Colossal…
