Stephanie Palazzolo is an AI reporter at The Information and author of the AI Agenda newsletter, covering artificial intelligence startups, Big Tech, chips, cloud, and policy. A former Morgan Stanley investment banker who pivoted into journalism, she broke major stories on OpenAI, Anthropic, and the broader AI industry, and was part of a SABEW Best in Business award-winning team for coverage of the OpenAI CEO firing in 2023.
Azalia Mirhoseini is an Iranian-born AI researcher, Stanford professor, and co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence - a frontier AI lab valued at $4 billion that uses AI to design better chips, which in turn train stronger AI. Best known for AlphaChip, the deep reinforcement learning system that now designs Google's TPUs and has compressed chip floorplanning from months to hours, she also co-invented the Mixture-of-Experts architecture underpinning GPT, Claude, and Gemini. With 20,000+ citations and a $335M-funded startup launched in under four months, she is closing the recursive loop between artificial intelligence and the hardware it runs on.
Eugene Yan is a Principal Applied Scientist turned Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he bridges cutting-edge AI research with production-scale systems. Formerly at Amazon for five years building real-time recommendation and LLM-powered systems for Kindle and Search, Eugene is equally well-known for his prolific writing: 209 blog posts, 420,000+ words published, and a newsletter with over 11,800 subscribers. His open-source repository applied-ml on GitHub has become a canonical reference for teams shipping machine learning in production. He lives in Seattle, snowboards on weekends, and writes like someone who actually wants you to understand.
Woz (WOZCODE) is a Claude Code plugin built by MIT engineers Ben Collins and Brad Eckert that cuts AI coding costs by 25-55% and speeds up most tasks by 30-40%. Instead of letting Claude Code burn tokens on bloated built-in file operations, WOZCODE replaces them with smarter, leaner alternatives - three specialized agents (code, explore, plan) that do more with less. It installs in two commands, runs locally with no data exfiltration, and works alongside your existing Claude subscription. Backed by Y Combinator (W25) and a $6M seed round, Woz is building the efficiency layer that makes AI-assisted development economically viable at scale.
Nelson Elhage is a systems engineer turned AI safety researcher who has left fingerprints across the modern software stack. At Anthropic, he co-authored foundational work on mechanistic interpretability and transformer circuits that shaped how the field understands language models. Before that, he was employee ~30 at Stripe and a founding engineer of Sorbet, the Ruby typechecker now used across one of the world's largest payment platforms. His open-source tools - reptyr, livegrep, and ministrace - are staples in the Linux hacker's toolkit. He blogs at 'Made of Bugs' and runs a Buttondown newsletter on computer systems.
Humanloop was an enterprise LLM development platform founded in 2020 as a UCL spinout, offering prompt management, evaluations, and observability tools for teams building AI applications. With customers like Duolingo and Gusto, it raised ~$8M and reached ~$3.8M ARR before being acqui-hired by Anthropic in August 2025, after which the platform was sunsetted on September 8, 2025. Its technology and team live on inside Anthropic's enterprise console.