Andrew R. Chow

Chow is a technology correspondent at TIME. He covers crypto, AI, tech regulation, and culture.

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The World’s Richest Man (For a Day)

Oracle chairman Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest as AI deals and stock buybacks fueled a historic $100 billion gain.

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Megan Garcia

Megan Garcia bears the weight of one of the gravest AI-related tragedies to date: In February 2024, her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, took his life after becoming romantically obsessed with a chatbot based on...

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Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

As the national executive director of the powerful Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has been on the frontlines of forging protections for workers whose livelihoods are threatened by AI. Among his victories: in July 2024,...

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Dávid Jancsó

Dávid Jancsó has been a respected editor in the film industry for a decade, and in 2024, he contributed to his highest-profile film yet: The Brutalist. The film earned ten Oscar nominations, including one for...

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Latanya Sweeney

In 2021, Harvard computer scientist Latanya Sweeney founded the university’s Public Interest Tech Lab with the aim of building a sandbox for budding technologists and a body of research studying how technology is shaping society....

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Pope Leo XIV

The Catholic Church comprises 1.4 billion believers; were it a nation, the church would be the world’s third-largest. In his first formal speech as its new leader in May, Robert Francis Prevost addressed those adherents...

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Karen Hao

Journalist Karen Hao began reporting on AI—and specifically OpenAI—years before ChatGPT became a global sensation. She turned that reporting into Empire of AI, a bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley...

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Alex Bores

Because the U.S. is nowhere near close to passing national legislation on AI safety, state-level legislators now occupy an outsized role in reigning in the technology’s most powerful companies. One who has risen to the...

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Elliston Berry

In October 2023, Elliston Berry of Aledo, Texas discovered that classmates had used an AI app to fabricate and share nude images of her and her classmates. Berry, then 14, and her mother brought the...

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Joshua Kushner

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has played a major role in driving AI’s business boom. Long before the cultural explosion of ChatGPT, Thrive was one of OpenAI’s first major investors. Last October, Thrive led a $6.6...

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Marsha Blackburn

This summer, the U.S. Congress came very close to freezing all AI regulation at the state level. Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz, campaigned for a 10-year moratorium that would severely punish any state that...

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David Sacks

David Sacks is Silicon Valley’s man on the inside in Washington. After spending much of 2024 stumping for President Donald Trump on his mega-popular podcast All-In, the venture capital heavyweight nabbed the role of the...

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Fei-Fei Li

Known as the "Godmother of AI," Fei-Fei Li played a foundational role in the creation of AI image-recognition systems during the ’00s, which helped spur the deep learning revolution. Today Li is the co-director of...

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Ana Helena Ulbrich

In 2017, pharmacist Ana Helena Ulbrich had a frustration about her profession. Because pharmacists in Brazil were asked to sort through hundreds of prescriptions a day, they often failed to catch when prescriptions could cause...

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Sam Rodriques

A theoretical physicist by training, Sam Rodriques recognized the possible uses of AI for scientific discovery. In 2023 he co-founded the nonprofit FutureHouse, with a goal to build AI scientists that can formulate hypotheses, conduct...

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Rick Rubin

While Rick Rubin has produced industry-defining pop, rock, and hip-hop songs over the last 40 years—including iconic hits for Run-DMC, Johnny Cash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Jay-Z—he rarely touches an instrument or a...

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Natasha Lyonne

“I’ve always been such a punk,” filmmaker Natasha Lyonne muses. “But AI is the thing that’s going to flip me into a hippie. Because now’s the time to get super low to the ground and...

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Stanford Study Reveals Who’s Losing Jobs to AI

A new Stanford analysis finds early-career workers—especially in fields like software engineering and customer service—are seeing steep job losses.

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Inside the Memphis Community Battling Musk’s xAI

A TIME investigation reveals data tying Elon Musk’s AI data center in Memphis to pollution surges in a historically Black Memphis community.

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A Talk Show Host’s AI Clone Takes Over

While Dave Rubin unplugs for the month of August, his right-wing YouTube show The Rubin Report will carry on—thanks to an AI clone.

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