The names moving AI

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI · 5,072 points across 21 stories

1. 2,202 points · 916 comments

   Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

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2. 1,097 points · 595 comments

   Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

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3. 268 points · 194 comments

   Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks

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Dario Amodei

CEO, Anthropic · 4,136 points across 5 stories

1. 2,920 points · 1,579 comments

   Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

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2. 805 points · 425 comments

   Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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3. 236 points · 178 comments

   Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions

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Terence Tao

Mathematician, Fields Medal · 1,960 points across 5 stories

1. 1,128 points · 637 comments

   Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

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2. 566 points · 550 comments

   Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

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3. 168 points · 64 comments

   Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf]

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Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and educator · 1,891 points across 6 stories

1. 618 points · 433 comments

   Karpathy’s Pelican

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2. 290 points · 78 comments

   Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"

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3. 260 points · 114 comments

   Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Elon Musk

CEO, xAI and Tesla · 1,776 points across 5 stories

1. 1,097 points · 595 comments

   Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

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2. 521 points · 827 comments

   Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

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3. 55 points · 28 comments

   Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company

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Demis Hassabis

CEO, Google DeepMind · 1,537 points across 4 stories

1. 867 points · 933 comments

   Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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2. 371 points · 1 comments

   Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

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3. 158 points · 201 comments

   Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely

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Yann LeCun

AI researcher, Turing Award · 1,501 points across 4 stories

1. 612 points · 507 comments

   Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

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2. 423 points · 850 comments

   LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

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3. 418 points · 2 comments

   Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round

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Mark Zuckerberg

CEO, Meta · 1,455 points across 8 stories

1. 643 points · 600 comments

   Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

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2. 342 points · 615 comments

   Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

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3. 135 points · 2 comments

   Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough

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Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist, Google · 1,166 points across 2 stories

1. 867 points · 933 comments

   Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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2. 299 points · 9 comments

   Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

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Jensen Huang

CEO, Nvidia · 707 points across 4 stories

1. 359 points · 248 comments

   Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

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2. 226 points · 107 comments

   Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic

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3. 73 points · 81 comments

   Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'

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Sergey Brin

Co-founder, Google · 378 points across 1 story

1. 378 points · 464 comments

   Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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John Carmack

Programmer, Keen Technologies · 376 points across 1 story

1. 376 points · 488 comments

   John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists

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Stephen Wolfram

Founder, Wolfram Research · 308 points across 1 story

1. 308 points · 174 comments

   Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems

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Linus Torvalds

Creator of Linux and Git · 277 points across 3 stories

1. 125 points · 112 comments

   Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

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2. 80 points · 26 comments

   Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity

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3. 72 points · 13 comments

   Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development

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Andrew Ng

AI researcher and educator · 269 points across 1 story

1. 269 points · 172 comments

   LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Donald Knuth

Computer scientist · 261 points across 1 story

1. 261 points · 184 comments

   Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem

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Greg Brockman

President, OpenAI · 214 points across 1 story

1. 214 points · 253 comments

   Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Satya Nadella

CEO, Microsoft · 204 points across 2 stories

1. 162 points · 216 comments

   Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"

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2. 42 points · 80 comments

   Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

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Peter Thiel

Investor, Founders Fund · 163 points across 1 story

1. 163 points · 223 comments

   Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist

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Boris Cherny

Creator of Claude Code · 143 points across 2 stories

1. 74 points · 80 comments

   Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

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2. 69 points · 14 comments

   Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App

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Tim Cook

CEO, Apple · 142 points across 1 story

1. 142 points · 170 comments

   Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

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Fei-Fei Li

AI researcher, World Labs · 64 points across 1 story

1. 64 points · 17 comments

   Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models

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Chris Lattner

Creator of LLVM and Swift · 45 points across 1 story

1. 45 points · 9 comments

   Chris Lattner: Claude C Compiler

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Geoffrey Hinton

AI researcher, Nobel Prize · 41 points across 1 story

1. 41 points · 21 comments

   Geoffrey Hinton: 'We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to choose humans'

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