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Cohere’s Joelle Pineau On Why A.I. Isn’t a Black Box

Cohere’s Joelle Pineau On Why A.I. Isn’t a Black Box

In this Q&A, Cohere chief A.I. officer Joelle Pineau explains why the idea of A.I. as a “black box” is misleading, how open science can actually...

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Ray Kurzweil: AI Is Not Hollywood’s Alien Invasion

Ray Kurzweil: AI Is Not Hollywood’s Alien Invasion

Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor and futurist, sees A.I. as the next step in human evolution. Merging with intelligent machines, Kurzweil...

19.09.2025 2

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Goldman Sachs’ Marco Argenti On Why Early-Career Workers Are Key to AI Management

Goldman Sachs’ Marco Argenti On Why Early-Career Workers Are Key to AI Management

Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO is shaping how one of Wall Street’s most powerful firms approaches generative and agentic A.I. Under his...

19.09.2025 30

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Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg Is Fixing Law’s ‘Broken Apprentice System’

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg Is Fixing Law’s ‘Broken Apprentice System’

Winston Weinberg, founder and CEO of Harvey, is reimagining legal and professional services through A.I. By combining reasoning models, specialized...

19.09.2025 3

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Insilico CEO Alex Zhavoronkov Shares His Vision for ‘Pharma Superintelligence’

Insilico CEO Alex Zhavoronkov Shares His Vision for ‘Pharma Superintelligence’

Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, explores how A.I. is driving drug discovery breakthroughs—and transforming the way medicines...

19.09.2025 3

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Inside Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun’s Bid to Make Driverless Trucks a 2025 Reality

Inside Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun’s Bid to Make Driverless Trucks a 2025 Reality

Waabi founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun challenges the industry’s “bigger is better” approach to A.I., arguing that brute-force scaling of compute...

18.09.2025 3

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Dr. Rumman Chowdhury: Culturally Aware A.I. Starts With Local Realities

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury: Culturally Aware A.I. Starts With Local Realities

From classrooms to city halls, Chowdhury argues that A.I. only works if humans keep control, test it rigorously and design with local realities in...

18.09.2025 4

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Humain CEO Tareq Amin: Infrastructure Beats Apps in the Race for AI Dominance

Humain CEO Tareq Amin: Infrastructure Beats Apps in the Race for AI Dominance

Tareq Amin is no stranger to transforming global infrastructure. After spearheading Rakuten’s Open RAN revolution in telecom, he now leads Saudi...

18.09.2025 3

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Reid Hoffman: Why AI’s Real Impact Comes From Users, Not Investor Hype

Reid Hoffman: Why AI’s Real Impact Comes From Users, Not Investor Hype

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and board chair of Manas AI, is leveraging A.I. to transform healthcare and drug discovery. He recently led a...

18.09.2025 4

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Quant’s Chetan Dube Prepares for the Incoming Digital Tsunami

Quant’s Chetan Dube Prepares for the Incoming Digital Tsunami

In this Q&A, Quant CEO Chetan Dube reflects on the seismic shifts A.I. is bringing to work, society and the global economy. He discusses agentic...

18.09.2025 4

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John Deere CTO Jahmy Hindman Is Turning A.I. Into a Farmer’s Tool

John Deere CTO Jahmy Hindman Is Turning A.I. Into a Farmer’s Tool

John Deere is using A.I. to cut chemicals, boost yields and give farmers tools built for the field, not Silicon Valley.

18.09.2025 3

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Yoshua Bengio On A.I. Risks, Model Breakthroughs and Canada’s Role

Yoshua Bengio On A.I. Risks, Model Breakthroughs and Canada’s Role

In this wide-ranging Q&A, Yoshua Bengio—pioneer of deep learning and founder of Mila, Quebec’s leading A.I. research institute—reflects on the...

18.09.2025 3

Observer

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Ivan Zhang On Building a $6.8B AI Company by Rejecting Tech’s ‘Bigger Is Better’ Obsession

Ivan Zhang On Building a $6.8B AI Company by Rejecting Tech’s ‘Bigger Is Better’ Obsession

While competitors chase flashy consumer demos with massive, resource-hungry models, Cohere has placed a contrarian bet on enterprise-focused A.I.,...

18.09.2025 3

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Daphne Koller Wants to Fix Drug Discovery With A.I.—and Real Data

Daphne Koller Wants to Fix Drug Discovery With A.I.—and Real Data

Insitro's co-founder is betting on the fact that real progress in biotech requires more than clever algorithms.

18.09.2025 10

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Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra Is Building an A.I. Superhighway

Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra Is Building an A.I. Superhighway

In this Q&A, Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra outlines why the company’s “A.I. superhighway” strategy sets it apart from tech giants like...

18.09.2025 3

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100 Leaders Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence

100 Leaders Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence

They write the script that the rest of us follow.

18.09.2025 10

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The Art Daddy Drama

Cultural criticism matters, but so do hurt feelings. When we let The Art Daddy loose on the state of arts journalism, the art world's most sensitive...

29.08.2025 2

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Introducing New York Night School: How to Take a Photo

23.07.2025 3

Daily Intelligencer

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Introducing ‘How to Look at Art,’ by Jerry Saltz

22.05.2025 5

Daily Intelligencer

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Observer Expert Insights: Contributor Guidelines

A field guide for contributors writing at the intersection of ambition, influence and insight—where strategy matters more than opinion, and clarity...

14.05.2025 3

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Introducing Court Appearances: United States v. Diddy

23.04.2025 8

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Do You Know How to Really Live in New York?

24.03.2025 5

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