Posts by Sophie Clearwater
The Art World’s Real Vulnerability Isn’t Theft. It’s the Move.
From the Louvre to the British Museum, recent thefts reveal why controlling access and tracking custody can matter as much as cameras and locks. Photo by Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images On Oct. 23, the restored Grand Palais will fill with more than 200 galleries for Art Basel Paris, bringing with them an…
Read MoreInside Zayn Malik, Gigi Hadid’s Daughter Khai’s Epic 6th Birthday Celebrations
“Since I’ve had my daughter, the main thing in my mind is trying to be a good example to her,” he said on the Call Her Daddy podcast in July 2023. “That’s why I’m even doing this interview, you know? I used to get a lot of anxiety around having a conversation like this. And…
Read MoreVijaye Raji Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
OpenAI is split into three divisions. There is Research, where the frontier models are trained. There is Scaling and Infrastructure, which handles the massive computers this training relies on. And then there is Applications, which takes the product of these two groups’ work, “and then brings it to the people,” says Vijaye Raji, who is…
Read MoreThe Past Decade’s Emissions Are Already Driving Worse Heat Waves in Europe
They found that the emissions from the last decade increased the intensity of 2025 heat waves by roughly a third of a degree Celsius. “That third of a degree might seem very small, maybe imperceptible to us walking around, but there’s a large body of scientific literature that suggests that even small increments of temperature…
Read MoreNaveen Zutshi Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
To create value for employees and customers, companies implementing AI must be able to access and interpret the scads of internal data needed to fuel it—but much of that data is sequestered in systems and formats that are unreachable to the teams that need it most. Databricks is in the business of unlocking that information,…
Read MoreDawn Baker Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
When you operate an online marketplace for refurbished electronics, sustainability isn’t a side quest—it’s a primary goal, says Back Market chief technology officer Dawn Baker. “We have an environmental mission at our heart,” Baker says. “What that means for me, as a technology leader, is looking at how we optimize our compute, because we have…
Read MoreEkta Chopra Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
In the ever-evolving beauty industry, speed is everything, says Ekta Chopra, chief technology and AI officer at E.l.f. Beauty. “Culture moves at the speed of light,” says Chopra, who assumed her current role in April after celebrating 10 years at the company. “Things go viral on TikTok, and if you don’t capitalize on that very…
Read MoreBill Pappas Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
After overseeing 150-year-old insurance giant MetLife’s multi-year, $3.2 billion modernization initiative, Bill Pappas turned his focus to AI. In two years, the effort has moved the numbers that matter: faster claims adjudication, lower expenses, better customer experience. “AI is not technology-led; it’s CEO-led,” Pappas says. “It’s changing the way we look at efficiency, at individual…
Read MoreDiogo Rau Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
Lilly now treats computing power as a core part of making medicines—thanks in large part to chief information and digital officer Diogo Rau. Under his leadership, the pharmaceutical giant built LillyPod, an Nvidia-powered supercomputer with more than 1,000 Blackwell GPUs, in just four months. That supercomputer is now modeling biological processes and screening potential molecules…
Read MoreFirdaus Bhathena Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
Appointed to the newly created chief technology and transformation officer role in March, Firdaus Bhathena is leading S&P Global’s push to bring technology, data, and AI closer together. Unlike previous technology waves such as digital and e-commerce, he says the current environment is “an everything transformation.” Bhathena was previously the top technology executive at CVS…
Read MoreMatt Madrigal Is one of TIME’s 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
Matt Madrigal, chief product and technology officer at Pinterest, says most apps are built to be addictive. His focus is on what he calls additive AI—software that provides ideas, products, or plans that are useful in real life. “Our goal for our users is time well spent, not total time spent,” he says. The approach…
Read MoreHow We Chose the 2026 TIME Executives of the Year: Tech and Data
Among them are Bartley Richardson, CrowdStrike’s chief AI and autonomous systems officer, who is heading up a new AI research lab dedicated to building autonomous cybersecurity systems, and Reddit chief technology officer (CTO) Amit Puntambekar, who is shepherding AI adoption at one of the internet’s largest repositories of human conversation. At pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly…
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