absorb.md

Mega-wikis compiled from everything a person has said, written, or posted.

Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun
@ylecun

Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Turing Award winner. Founding father of convolutional neural networks. Vocal on world models, JEPA, and the limits of LLMs.

188 entries / 46 tweets / 22 videos / 100 papers / 20 articles
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng
@AndrewYNg

Founder DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI. Co-founder Coursera. Stanford adjunct professor.

144 entries / 10 tweets / 37 videos / 82 papers / 12 articles
Hartmut Neven
Hartmut Neven
@hneven

Director of Google Quantum AI since 2006. Architect of Google's quantum computing program, from Sycamore to Willow chip. Quantum hardware + quantum ML.

129 entries / 26 videos / 96 papers / 7 articles
Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis
@Jason

Angel investor. Founder This Week in Startups and LAUNCH. All-In Podcast co-host.

111 entries / 62 tweets / 39 videos
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
@pmarca

Co-founder a16z. Techno-optimist. Software is eating the world.

103 entries / 33 tweets / 35 videos / 23 articles
Mikhail Lukin
Mikhail Lukin
@mikhaillukin

Harvard University, co-founder of QuEra Computing. Built the 256-qubit neutral atom processor (2021), currently the leading non-superconducting path to large-scale quantum machines. Pioneer of Rydberg-atom quantum gates.

101 entries / 100 papers
Peter Shor
Peter Shor
@petershor

MIT. Invented Shor's algorithm (1994) — the polynomial-time quantum algorithm for integer factorization that motivates the entire field. The reason quantum computing matters for cryptography and the reason post-quantum cryptography exists.

100 entries / 100 papers
Jeremy O'Brien
Jeremy O'Brien
@jeremyobrien

PsiQuantum CEO and co-founder. Building the first million-qubit photonic quantum computer using silicon photonics fabricated at GlobalFoundries. Bristol University background, world-leading photonic quantum hardware.

99 entries / 99 papers
Travis Humble
Travis Humble
@travishumble

Oak Ridge National Lab Quantum Computing Institute Director. Runs the U.S. Department of Energy quantum-HPC integration program. The single most relevant person for "first adopter" hybrid systems work.

99 entries / 1 videos / 98 papers
Yasunobu Nakamura
Yasunobu Nakamura
@nakamuralab

RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing director, University of Tokyo. Built the first superconducting charge qubit in 1999 — every IBM, Google, and Rigetti qubit descends from this work. The deepest cite in superconducting quantum computing.

99 entries / 99 papers
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
@aspuruguzik

University of Toronto. Pioneered the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) — the workhorse algorithm for quantum chemistry on NISQ devices. Co-founded Zapata Computing. Leading work on quantum machine learning for drug discovery.

99 entries / 99 papers
Garry Tan
Garry Tan
@garrytan

President and CEO of Y Combinator. Co-founder Initialized Capital.

98 entries / 37 tweets / 36 videos / 23 articles
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis
@demishassabis

Co-founder and CEO Google DeepMind. Nobel laureate for AlphaFold.

95 entries / 28 tweets / 23 videos / 43 papers
Simon Willison
Simon Willison
@simonw

Co-creator Django. Creator Datasette and llm CLI. Prolific AI blogger.

90 entries / 38 tweets / 2 videos / 50 articles
Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad
@amasad

CEO of Replit. Pioneered AI-native coding with Replit Agent.

86 entries / 48 tweets / 18 videos / 20 articles
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei
@DarioAmodei

Co-founder and CEO Anthropic. Former VP Research OpenAI. AI safety researcher.

77 entries / 12 tweets / 26 videos / 33 papers / 6 articles
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya
@chamath

Founder Social Capital. All-In Podcast co-host. SPAC pioneer.

75 entries / 39 tweets / 32 videos / 4 articles
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
@Scobleizer

Tech evangelist and futurist. Spatial computing and AI analyst.

75 entries / 49 tweets / 20 videos / 6 articles
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X. Reusable rockets, electric cars, AI, neural interfaces, Mars. The firehose.

74 entries / 49 tweets / 25 videos
Tobi Lütke
Tobi Lütke
@tobi

CEO of Shopify. Issued the famous internal memo declaring AI non-optional across Shopify in April 2025. Operator perspective.

71 entries / 41 tweets / 4 videos / 26 articles
Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch
@rauchg

CEO of Vercel. Creator of Next.js, V0. Best product-design thinker in the developer-AI space.

70 entries / 35 tweets / 7 videos / 28 articles
François Chollet
François Chollet
@fchollet

Creator of Keras. Now at Anthropic. Author of "Deep Learning with Python". Most thoughtful voice on AGI benchmarking via the ARC challenge.

69 entries / 23 tweets / 17 videos / 22 articles
Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant
@naval

Founder AngelList. Investor and philosopher. How to Get Rich without getting lucky.

65 entries / 28 tweets / 16 videos / 21 articles
Sam Altman
Sam Altman
@sama

CEO OpenAI. Former president Y Combinator.

62 entries / 22 tweets / 30 videos / 10 articles
LangChain
LangChain
@LangChainAI

Open-source framework for LLM applications + LangSmith observability platform. Founded by Harrison Chase. $125M Series B Oct 2025 at $1.25B.

60 entries / 17 videos / 43 articles
Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick
@emollick

Wharton professor. Author of Co-Intelligence. One of the most prolific voices on what LLMs can actually do in practice.

58 entries / 35 tweets / 21 videos / 2 articles
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
@geoffreyhinton

Turing Award winner. Godfather of deep learning. Nobel Prize in Physics 2024.

55 entries / 1 videos / 54 papers
Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman
@gdb

President and Co-founder of OpenAI. Former CTO of Stripe. One of the most important voices on frontier model development, scaling, and AI safety.

53 entries / 22 tweets / 17 videos / 14 articles
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy

Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI co-founder. LLM Knowledge Bases pattern. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero.

51 entries / 13 tweets / 14 videos / 8 papers / 15 articles
Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison
@patrickc

Co-founder and CEO Stripe. Progress Studies co-founder.

51 entries / 24 tweets / 21 videos / 6 articles
Logan Kilpatrick
Logan Kilpatrick
@OfficialLoganK

Product lead at Google AI Studio. Runs developer experience for Gemini API. Very prolific on X.

50 entries / 27 tweets / 22 videos
Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin
@vitalikbuterin

Co-creator of Ethereum, the leading smart contract blockchain platform. Shapes Web3, decentralized finance, governance, and explores intersections between crypto, AI, and scalable decentralized systems.

50 entries / 27 tweets / 18 videos
Anton Osika
Anton Osika
@antonosika

Co-founder and CEO of Lovable. Vibe-coding startup, reached $400M ARR in early 2026.

49 entries / 26 tweets / 18 videos / 4 articles
David Sacks
David Sacks
@DavidSacks

Founder and general partner at Craft Ventures. Former COO of PayPal, founder of Yammer. All-In Podcast co-host. AI Czar appointment under Trump admin.

48 entries / 19 tweets / 24 videos
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang
@nvidia

Founder and CEO NVIDIA. AI compute pioneer.

48 entries / 47 videos / 1 articles
Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas

Co-founder and CEO Perplexity. AI-powered answer engine.

48 entries / 20 tweets / 28 videos
Maria Schuld
Maria Schuld
@mariaschuld

Xanadu Quantum Technologies. Co-author of the foundational textbook on quantum machine learning. Defined the field — if you cite QML and don't cite Schuld, you're not serious.

47 entries / 8 videos / 38 papers / 1 articles
Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey
@palmerluckey

Founder of Oculus VR, which popularized modern consumer virtual reality (acquired by Facebook). Founded Anduril Industries to build AI-powered autonomous defense systems and spatial computing technologies.

43 entries / 26 tweets / 16 videos
Ravi Netravali
Ravi Netravali
@ravi_netravali

Princeton CS associate professor. Systems for ML, LLM serving, video systems, networked systems. Runs the SNS (Systems and Networking Systems) Group. Former PhD advisor work on lots of PLDI/OSDI/NSDI papers.

42 entries / 7 videos / 35 papers
Mistral AI
Mistral AI
@MistralAI

European frontier AI lab founded by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix. Known for open-weight models and the Mistral + Mixtral families.

40 entries / 13 tweets / 7 videos / 20 articles
Jay Gambetta
Jay Gambetta
@jaygambetta

IBM Fellow and VP of IBM Quantum. Shapes the industry quantum hardware roadmap.

38 entries / 16 tweets / 19 videos / 3 articles
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey
@jack

Co-founder Twitter and Block. Funded Bluesky. Open protocols advocate.

37 entries / 15 tweets / 22 videos
David Friedberg
David Friedberg
@friedberg

CEO and founder of The Production Board. Former CEO of Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for ~$1B). All-In Podcast co-host. Biotech, food systems, climate.

36 entries / 17 tweets / 18 videos
Jim Fan
Jim Fan
@drjimfan

NVIDIA Senior Director of AI and Distinguished Scientist leading robotics and physical AI efforts. Co-leads GEAR lab on simulation, embodied agents, and building generalist humanoid robots for real-world tasks.

36 entries / 22 tweets / 12 videos / 2 articles
Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson
@benthompson

Founder of Stratechery, the original premium tech analysis newsletter. Author of Aggregation Theory. Hosts Dithering with John Gruber and Sharp Tech.

34 entries / 10 tweets / 21 articles
John Preskill
John Preskill
@preskill

Caltech theoretical physicist. Coined NISQ and quantum supremacy. Director of Caltech Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.

32 entries / 31 tweets / 1 videos
Josh Woodward
Josh Woodward
@joshwoodward

VP Google Labs + Gemini App. Took over Gemini product in 2025 after Sissie Hsiao. TIME 100 AI 2025.

31 entries / 22 tweets / 9 videos
Alexander Embiricos
Alexander Embiricos
@embirico

Product lead for Codex at OpenAI. Running the coding-agent category.

30 entries / 23 tweets / 7 videos
Jason
Jason
@jason

AI builder and founder. Part of Scoble-curated AI founders and robotics-adjacent lists.

29 entries / 10 tweets / 18 videos
Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose
@kevinroose

Tech columnist at the New York Times. Co-hosts Hard Fork. Author of Futureproof. Covers AI, platforms, and the social impact of tech.

28 entries
Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson
@scottaaronson

UT Austin theoretical computer scientist. Shtetl-Optimized blog is the quantum blog. Former OpenAI alignment researcher.

28 entries / 1 tweets / 17 videos / 10 articles
P
Perplexity
@perplexity_ai

AI-powered answer engine replacing traditional search. Founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski.

27 entries
Together AI
Together AI
@togethercompute

Open-source AI cloud and inference infrastructure. Co-founded by Vipul Ved Prakash. $305M Series B. Major player in open-model inference.

26 entries
John Carmack
John Carmack
@id_aa_carmack

Programming legend behind Doom and Quake at id Software. Former CTO of Oculus advancing consumer VR; now CEO of Keen Technologies building AGI with focus on efficient compute, simulation, and spatial interfaces.

26 entries / 16 tweets
Barry Ritholtz
Barry Ritholtz
@barryritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is an American businessman and author. He is the founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm with over $5 billion in assets under management. He first came to public notice for his warning about derivatives and mortgages leading to the subprime mortgage crisis.

25 entries / 25 articles
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis
@jeffjarvis

One of the leading political bloggers who brings tech into things often. In Scoble's hand-picked top tech bloggers roster.

25 entries / 19 tweets / 6 videos
Ted Seides
Ted Seides
@tedseides

Host of Capital Allocators, the leading podcast on institutional investing. Author of Capital Allocators. Former co-CIO at Protégé Partners. Interviews top institutional investors.

24 entries
Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen
@tylercowen

Economics professor at George Mason. Hosts Conversations with Tyler. Co-author of Marginal Revolution. The most read economics blogger and one of the most curious minds alive.

23 entries
Casey Newton
Casey Newton
@caseynewton

Founder of Platformer, contributing editor at New York Magazine. Co-hosts Hard Fork with Kevin Roose at the New York Times. Tech and platforms reporter.

22 entries
John Martinis
John Martinis
@jmartinis

UCSB physicist who led Google's quantum supremacy paper (Sycamore, 2019). Now CTO at Silicon Quantum Computing (Australia). One of the actual inventors of superconducting qubits at scale.

21 entries
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Lenny Rachitsky
@lennysrachitsky

Author of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast. Former Airbnb product lead. Now the most influential voice in product management with weekly interviews of top operators.

21 entries
Replicate
Replicate
@replicate

Run open-source ML models with a simple API. Founded by Ben Firshman + Andreas Jansson. Popular for image generation pipelines.

21 entries
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman
@reidhoffman

LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, host of Masters of Scale. Author of Blitzscaling, The Startup of You. Now one of the most active AI investors and thinkers.

20 entries
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss
@tferriss

Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tools of Titans. Host of The Tim Ferriss Show, the most-downloaded interview podcast in history. Early-stage investor.

20 entries
AI Jason
AI Jason
@ai-jason

YouTube channel: AI Jason

20 entries
Upstream with Erik Torenberg
Upstream with Erik Torenberg
@torenberg

YouTube channel: Upstream with Erik Torenberg

20 entries
Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel
@pabbeel

UC Berkeley professor, director at BAIR lab, and co-founder of Covariant. Pioneer in deep reinforcement learning for robotics, enabling robots to learn complex manipulation tasks from demonstrations and simulation.

20 entries / 10 tweets
H. W. Brands
H. W. Brands
@hwbrands

Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

18 entries
swyx
swyx
@swyx

AI developer advocate and writer. Frequently appears in Scoble's AI newsmakers and influencers rosters.

17 entries
Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman
@mustafasuleyman

Mustafa Suleyman is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company which was acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.

16 entries
Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie
@levie

CEO and co-founder of Box, the enterprise cloud content management platform increasingly powered by AI. Active commentator on startup strategy, cloud computing, AI productivity tools, and spatial computing trends.

16 entries
Sierra
Sierra
@sierra

Conversational AI platform for customer experience. Co-founded by Bret Taylor (ex-Facebook CTO, Salesforce co-CEO, Twitter chair, OpenAI board chair) and Clay Bavor. $350M at $10B.

16 entries
Nick Turley
Nick Turley
@nickaturley

Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI. Grew ChatGPT to 700M+ weekly active users. Currently re-architecting it as an operating system.

15 entries / 10 tweets
Wes Roth
Wes Roth
@wesroth

YouTube channel: Wes Roth

15 entries
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor
@bentaylor-ai

YouTube channel: Ben Taylor

14 entries
Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte
@leolaporte

Runs This Week in Tech, Scoble's favorite tech podcast. Included in Scoble's top tech bloggers and influencers list.

14 entries
Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman
@lexfridman

AI researcher at MIT and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast with in-depth interviews of top minds in AI, science, and technology. Focuses on autonomous vehicles, human-AI interaction, and robotics.

14 entries / 10 tweets
Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher
@kswisher

Co-host of Pivot with Scott Galloway and host of On with Kara Swisher. Founded Recode and AllThingsD. The most feared interviewer in tech.

13 entries
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss
@timferriss

YouTube channel: Tim Ferriss

13 entries
Charlene Li
Charlene Li
@charleneli

Social networking analyst and expert. Included in Scoble's recommended lists and SUL alternative roster.

12 entries
Brian Solis
Brian Solis
@briansolis

Mr. PR in the social media and tech space according to Scoble. Part of top tech/FriendFeed list.

12 entries
Matt Wolfe
Matt Wolfe
@mattwolfe

YouTube channel: Matt Wolfe

11 entries
Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan
@balajis

Tech thinker, investor, and commentator on crypto, AI, and spatial tech. Featured across Scoble's frontier tech lists.

11 entries
Sam Harris
Sam Harris
@samharrisorg

Neuroscientist, philosopher, host of Making Sense podcast. Founder of the Waking Up meditation app. Writes on AI risk, free will, consciousness.

11 entries
Ami Vora
Ami Vora
@asvora

CPO of Anthropic. Took over product leadership in early 2026 after Mike Krieger moved to Anthropic Labs.

11 entries / 10 tweets
Harrison Chase
Harrison Chase
@hwchase17

Co-founder of LangChain. AI framework pioneer featured in Scoble's AI founders and newsmakers discussions.

11 entries
Andrew Huberman
Andrew Huberman
@hubermanlab

Stanford neuroscience professor, host of Huberman Lab podcast. Tools for sleep, performance, focus, and health. Massive following.

10 entries
Mira Murati
Mira Murati
@miramurati

Former CTO of OpenAI. Key AI leader Scoble tracks in his AI founders and influencers lists.

10 entries
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki
@guykawasaki

Hires three people to help tweet and has the most organically-grown Twitter followers Scoble knows of. In Scoble roster.

10 entries
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever
@ilyasut

Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. Formerly Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Co-author of the seminal AlexNet paper. Possibly the most consequential ML researcher alive.

10 entries
Georgia Public Broadcasting
Georgia Public Broadcasting
@georgiapublicbroadcasting

Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is a state network of PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations serving the U.S. state of Georgia. It is operated by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, an agency of the Georgia state government which holds the licenses for most of the PBS and NPR member stations licensed in the state. The broadcast signals of the nine television stations and 19 radio stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

10 entries
Scott Galloway
Scott Galloway
@profgalloway

NYU Stern professor, co-host of Pivot, founder of L2 (sold to Gartner). Author of The Four, Post Corona. Frequent commentator on tech monopolies and economic inequality.

10 entries
LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex
@llama_index

Data framework for LLM applications, focused on RAG. Founded by Jerry Liu.

10 entries
Cursor / Anysphere
Cursor / Anysphere
@CursorSH

AI-first code editor. Founded by Aman Sanger, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark. Largest growth story in AI coding tools.

10 entries
Gabe Rivera
Gabe Rivera
@gaberivera

Runs Techmeme. Inventor of Techmeme. Prominently featured in Scoble's tech bloggers roster.

10 entries
Chris Monroe
Chris Monroe
@chrismonroe

IonQ co-founder, Duke University. Trapped-ion quantum computing pioneer. Demonstrated the first quantum logic gate between two atoms in 1995 (with David Wineland). One of the originators of the modular ion-trap architecture.

10 entries / 2 papers
Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage
@nigelfarage

Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician who has been Leader of Reform UK since 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton since 2024. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020.

10 entries
Riley Goodside
Riley Goodside
@goodside

Prompt engineering expert and AI researcher. Key figure Scoble follows in his AI researchers and newsmakers lists.

10 entries
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson
@fredwilson

Famous VC in tech industry. Invested in Twitter. Featured in Scoble's top tech bloggers and SUL alternative lists.

10 entries
Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe
@zanelowe

Alexander Zane Reed Lowe is a New Zealand radio DJ, live DJ, record producer, and television presenter. After an early career in music creation, production and DJing, he moved to the UK in 1997. He came to prominence through presenting on XFM and MTV Europe, developing a DJ career by opening sets for bands and eventually landing a slot on prime-time radio on BBC Radio 1 from 2003 to 2015. In 2015, he was hired by Apple to be the Creative Director of their new world-wide music station, Apple Music 1.

10 entries
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
@markzuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He serves as its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.

10 entries
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
@barackobama

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

10 entries
Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets
@paulstamets

Paul Edward Stamets is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and an advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation.

10 entries
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham
@marcusbuckingham

Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham is an English author, motivational speaker and business consultant based in California.

10 entries
Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
@hormozi

YouTube channel: Alex Hormozi

10 entries
Laura Martin
Laura Martin
@lauramartin

Laura DePuy is a colorist who has produced work for several of the major comics companies, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics and CrossGen.

10 entries
Greg Isenberg
Greg Isenberg
@gregisenberg

YouTube channel: Greg Isenberg

10 entries
Traction
Traction
@traction-yt

YouTube channel: Traction

10 entries
Tom Bilyeu
Tom Bilyeu
@tombilyeu

YouTube channel: Tom Bilyeu

10 entries
3Blue1Brown
3Blue1Brown
@3blue1brown

YouTube channel: 3Blue1Brown

10 entries
Dan Rather
Dan Rather
@danrather

Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name in September 1961 after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla. He has reported on some of the most significant events of the modern age, such as from Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, 9/11, the Iraq War, and the war on terror.

10 entries
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein
@ezraklein

Ezra Klein is an American political commentator and journalist. He has been a New York Times columnist since 2021 and is the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast. He is a co-founder of Vox and was formerly the website's editor-at-large. He has held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC. Klein has written two books, both published by Simon & Schuster: Why We're Polarized in January 2020, and Abundance, cowritten with Derek Thompson, in March 2025.

10 entries
Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu

NYU journalism professor who keeps Scoble up to date on tech advances in journalism. Featured in multiple Scoble rosters.

9 entries
Asianometry
Asianometry
@asianometry

YouTube channel: Asianometry

9 entries
Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher
@karaswisher

Runs the D Conference with Walt Mossberg and generally beats Scoble to all the good stories. Listed in top tech roster.

8 entries
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
@marcorubio

Marco Antonio Rubio is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 72nd United States secretary of state. He is also the acting national security advisor. A member of the Republican Party, Rubio represented Florida in the U.S. Senate from 2011 to 2025.

8 entries
Arvind on AI
Arvind on AI
@arvind-ai

YouTube channel: Arvind on AI

8 entries
Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh

YouTube channel: Dwarkesh Patel

8 entries
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan
@chrisbrogan

Everyone knows him in the social media world. Scoble listed him prominently in his top tech blogger and FriendFeed/social media roster.

7 entries
Michelle Simmons
Michelle Simmons
@michellesimmons

UNSW Sydney physicist. Founder of Silicon Quantum Computing. Pioneer of atomic-precision silicon qubits. 2018 Australian of the Year.

7 entries
Jake Sullivan
Jake Sullivan
@jakesullivan

Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan is an American attorney who served as the U.S. national security advisor from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden.

6 entries
Lieven Vandersypen
Lieven Vandersypen
@lievenvandersypen

TU Delft / QuTech. Pioneer of silicon spin qubits and the original NMR Shor's algorithm demonstration (2001, IBM). One of the leading voices for silicon as a route to scalable quantum hardware.

5 entries
Barbara Terhal
Barbara Terhal
@barbaraterhal

Forschungszentrum Jülich / RWTH Aachen. Quantum error correction theory and complexity theory. Major contributor to the surface code and to the theoretical foundations of fault tolerance.

5 entries
Stephanie Wehner
Stephanie Wehner
@stephaniewehner

TU Delft / QuTech. Leads the European quantum internet initiative. Invented protocols for entanglement distribution over quantum networks. Co-author of the "stages of quantum internet development" roadmap.

5 entries
Sankar Das Sarma
Sankar Das Sarma
@sankardassarma

University of Maryland. Theoretical condensed matter / Majorana theorist. Major contributor to the Majorana zero mode framework that underpins Microsoft's topological qubit program.

5 entries
Ignacio Cirac
Ignacio Cirac
@ignaciocirac

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Munich. Co-inventor (with Zoller) of the trapped-ion quantum computer proposal. Tensor network methods. One of the most-cited theorists in quantum information.

5 entries
Krysta Svore
Krysta Svore
@krystasvore

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, General Manager of Microsoft Quantum software. Leads Microsoft's Q# language, quantum compiler, and quantum algorithm development. Major contributor to fault-tolerant quantum compilation.

5 entries
Ronald Hanson
Ronald Hanson
@ronaldhanson

TU Delft / QuTech. Performed the first loophole-free Bell test (2015) using NV centers in diamond — the experiment that closed the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen debate. Diamond NV-center quantum networks.

5 entries
Peter Attia
Peter Attia
@peterattia

Physician focused on longevity. Host of The Drive podcast. Author of Outlive. Influential voice on healthspan, exercise, nutrition, and prevention.

5 entries
A Martinez
A Martinez
@amartinez

Adolfo Larrue Martínez III, credited as A Martinez, is an American actor and singer. He had roles in the daytime soap operas Santa Barbara, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives, and the primetime dramas L.A. Law, Profiler, Longmire and Dark Winds. His feature films include The Cowboys (1972), Powwow Highway (1989), Curse of Chucky (2013), Ambulance (2022) and Far Haven (2023).

5 entries
Mark Saffman
Mark Saffman
@marksaffman

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Co-founder of Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta). One of the early proponents of Rydberg-blockade quantum gates in neutral atom arrays.

5 entries
David Deutsch
David Deutsch
@daviddeutsch

Oxford University. Defined the universal quantum Turing machine (1985). Argued that the Church-Turing thesis must be reformulated in quantum-physical terms. The intellectual founder of quantum computation.

5 entries
Manuel Endres
Manuel Endres
@manuelendres

Caltech. Neutral atom arrays with Rydberg gates. Likely path to 10K+ qubit machines. One of the technical leaders making neutral atoms a credible alternative to superconducting and trapped ion.

5 entries
Chad Rigetti
Chad Rigetti
@chadrigetti

Founder of Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI). Built one of the first full-stack superconducting quantum cloud services. Pioneered hybrid quantum-classical workflow integration into HPC environments.

5 entries
Jeff Thompson
Jeff Thompson
@jeffdthompson

Princeton University. Neutral atom arrays with strontium and ytterbium. Leading work on optical-clock atoms as qubits — a route to qubits with seconds-long coherence times.

5 entries
Andreas Wallraff
Andreas Wallraff
@andreaswallraff

ETH Zurich. Major contributor to circuit QED experimental work. Built ETH's superconducting quantum processor program. First experimental observation of strong coupling in cQED.

5 entries
Jian-Wei Pan
Jian-Wei Pan
@jianweipan

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Leads China's national quantum effort. Built the Micius satellite (2016 — first satellite-based quantum key distribution). Co-led the Jiuzhang photonic quantum advantage demonstration (2020).

5 entries
Lov Grover
Lov Grover
@lovgrover

Bell Labs / IIT. Invented Grover's algorithm (1996) — quadratic speedup for unstructured search. The second pillar of quantum algorithms after Shor.

5 entries
Aleksei Khindanov
Aleksei Khindanov
@khindanov

Quantum error correction and architecture researcher.

5 entries
Aram Harrow
Aram Harrow
@aramharrow

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Co-invented the HHL algorithm (Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd, 2009) for quantum linear systems. One of the leading voices on the limits of quantum machine learning speedups.

5 entries
Ben Bloom
Ben Bloom
@benbloom

Atom Computing CEO and founder. Built the first 1000+ qubit neutral-atom quantum computer (2023). Pursuing optical-clock-style atom arrays as a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing.

5 entries
Charles Bennett
Charles Bennett
@charlesbennett

IBM Research. Co-invented quantum teleportation (1993), the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol (1984, with Brassard), and laid the foundations of quantum information theory. Possibly the most-cited author in the field.

5 entries
Ross Duncan
Ross Duncan
@rossduncan

Quantinuum chief architect. Foundational work on ZX-calculus for quantum circuit reasoning. Co-developer of TKET, one of the most widely used quantum compilers.

5 entries
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
@thewallstreetjournal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), commonly known as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance, and operates on a subscription model that requires readers to pay for access to most articles and other content. The Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.

5 entries
Markus Reiher
Markus Reiher
@markusreiher

ETH Zurich. Computational chemistry at the quantum/classical interface. Serious quantum chemistry methods for catalysis, materials, and molecular simulation. The "real chemist's chemist" in quantum.

5 entries
Ilyas Khan
Ilyas Khan
@ilyaskhan

Quantinuum CEO. Founded Cambridge Quantum Computing in 2014, merged with Honeywell Quantum Solutions in 2021 to form Quantinuum. Built the first integrated quantum software/hardware stack.

5 entries
Daniel Gottesman
Daniel Gottesman
@danielgottesman

University of Maryland. Co-invented the stabilizer formalism (1996) — the foundation of every quantum error correction code in use today. Author of the canonical PhD thesis on stabilizer codes.

5 entries
Antoine Browaeys
Antoine Browaeys
@antoinebrouwaeys

Institut d'Optique, France. Co-founder of Pasqal (the European neutral-atom quantum company). Pioneer of Rydberg-atom array experiments. One of the architects of the neutral-atom approach to large-scale quantum.

5 entries
Renato Renner
Renato Renner
@renatorenner

ETH Zurich. Quantum information theory, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum cryptography security proofs. Best known for proving the security of quantum key distribution protocols.

5 entries
Steven Girvin
Steven Girvin
@stevengirvin

Yale University. Theoretical physicist behind circuit QED with Schoelkopf and Devoret. Authored the canonical introduction to circuit QED. Quantum many-body physics.

5 entries
Kristan Temme
Kristan Temme
@kristantemme

IBM Research. Co-invented zero-noise extrapolation, the leading error mitigation technique making near-term (NISQ) quantum hardware useful before full fault tolerance.

5 entries
Charles Marcus
Charles Marcus
@charlesmarcus

University of Washington / formerly Niels Bohr Institute / Microsoft Station Q. Experimental condensed matter physicist working on Majorana zero modes. Long-time leader of the topological qubit experimental effort.

5 entries
Claire L. Edmunds
Claire L. Edmunds
@edmunds

Quantum computing researcher focused on quantum control and hardware-aware compilation.

4 entries
Peter Zoller
Peter Zoller
@peterzoller

University of Innsbruck. Theoretical physicist. Co-invented (with Cirac) the original 1995 trapped-ion quantum computer proposal that launched the modality. Also co-developer of Rydberg-blockade gates for neutral atoms.

4 entries
William Oliver
William Oliver
@williamoliver

MIT EECS, MIT Lincoln Lab. Director of MIT Center for Quantum Engineering. Superconducting qubit hardware + materials. One of the most cited working experimentalists on coherence-limit improvements.

4 entries
Rainer Blatt
Rainer Blatt
@rainerblatt

University of Innsbruck. Trapped-ion quantum computing pioneer. Co-founder of Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT). His group performed many of the foundational trapped-ion quantum logic demonstrations.

4 entries
Lu Chao-Yang
Lu Chao-Yang
@luchaoyang

USTC. Co-led the Jiuzhang photonic quantum computing demonstrations claiming quantum advantage on Gaussian boson sampling (2020-2022). Most prominent Chinese photonic quantum hardware leader.

4 entries
Jason Alicea
Jason Alicea
@jasonalicea

Caltech. Theoretical condensed matter, Majorana fermions. Major contributor to topological quantum computing theory. Reviews of Majorana-based qubit proposals.

4 entries
Sean Cairncross
Sean Cairncross
@seancairncross

Sean Stuart Cairncross is the National Cyber Director (NCD) of the United States. He is also an American lawyer that served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Senior Adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, and CEO for the Republican National Committee. He was nominated to be the National Cyber Director on February 11, 2025 and confirmed on August 2, 2025.

4 entries
John Watrous
John Watrous
@johnwatrous

University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing. Author of "The Theory of Quantum Information" — the canonical textbook on quantum information theory. Quantum complexity theory.

4 entries
Sarah Sheldon
Sarah Sheldon
@sarahsheldon

IBM Research, quantum computing. Leads gate calibration and benchmarking work that has driven IBM's steady reduction in error rates. Co-author on the randomized benchmarking protocols used industry-wide.

4 entries
Paul Coote
Paul Coote
@paulcoote

Quantum computing researcher, quantum compilers and microarchitecture.

4 entries
Mitsuhisa Sato
Mitsuhisa Sato
@mitsuhisasato

RIKEN R-CCS Director, leads Fugaku supercomputer (#1 worldwide 2020-2022). Driving Japan's national hybrid quantum-HPC integration program. Architect of the quantum-classical co-design strategy at Japanese scale.

4 entries
Yuval Baum
Yuval Baum
@yuvalbaum

Quantum computing researcher at Q-CTRL, focus on control systems and error mitigation.

3 entries
Peter Chapman
Peter Chapman
@peterchapman

IonQ CEO. Ex-Amazon Prime engineering. Productized trapped-ion quantum computing into rack-mountable commercial systems. First quantum company to IPO via SPAC (2021).

3 entries
Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried
@sambankmanfried

Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto, with FTX having a global reach with more than 130 international affiliates. At the peak of his net worth, he was ranked the 41st-richest American in the Forbes 400.

3 entries
Jerry Chow
Jerry Chow
@jerrymchow

IBM Director of Quantum Hardware. Built the first cloud-accessible quantum processor (IBM Quantum Experience, 2016). Co-invented the cross-resonance gate that powers IBM's superconducting architecture.

3 entries
Edward Farhi
Edward Farhi
@edwardfarhi

Google Quantum AI, MIT (emeritus). Co-invented the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA, 2014) — the most studied near-term quantum optimization algorithm.

3 entries
Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret
@micheldevoret

Yale University. Co-inventor of circuit QED. Pioneer of mesoscopic superconducting devices. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-founder of Quantum Circuits Inc.

2 entries
Cognition Labs (Devin)
Cognition Labs (Devin)
@cognition_labs

Builder of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer. Founded by Scott Wu, Walden Yan, Steven Hao. $400M at $10.2B valuation.

2 entries
Yulun Wang
Yulun Wang
@yulunwang

Quantum computing researcher, fault-tolerant architectures.

2 entries
ML
Modal Labs
@modal_labs

Serverless compute for AI workloads. Founded by Erik Bernhardsson (ex-Spotify, built Luigi). $87M Series B, talks for Series C at $2.5B.

2 entries
Matthijs Rijlaarsdam
Matthijs Rijlaarsdam
@matthijsr

QuantWare CEO and co-founder. Building the "TSMC of qubits" — a Dutch superconducting qubit foundry selling chips to other quantum companies. Spinout from QuTech / TU Delft.

2 entries
Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor
@bret

Co-founder of FriendFeed, former Salesforce co-CEO, AI and tech leader. In Scoble's early tech and modern AI rosters.

2 entries
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI
@fireworks_ai

Production inference platform for open-source models. $250M Series C. Founded by ex-Meta AI infra team.

2 entries
Bert de Jong
Bert de Jong
@bertdejong

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Computational chemistry at the quantum-classical boundary. Bridges abstract quantum algorithms to actual HPC workloads in chemistry and materials science.

1 entries
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
@benjaminnetanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister.

1 entries
Rob Schoelkopf
Rob Schoelkopf
@robschoelkopf

Yale University. Co-invented circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) in 2004 with Devoret and Girvin — the architecture that powers every IBM, Google, Rigetti, and IQM superconducting quantum computer. Co-founder of Quantum Circuits Inc.

1 entries
Michael Hush
Michael Hush
@michaelhush

Quantum computing researcher, Q-CTRL. Focus on quantum control and machine learning for quantum systems.

1 entries
Evan Williams
Evan Williams
@ev

Guy who started Blogger and Twitter. Listed in Scoble's recommended Twitter users not on SUL but worth following.

1 entries
Pranav S. Mundada
Pranav S. Mundada
@mundada

Quantum computing researcher. Lead author on heterogeneous QC architecture work, Q-CTRL.

1 entries
Tiago Forte
Tiago Forte
@tiagoforte

YouTube channel: Tiago Forte

1 entries