Kenrick Cai
I am a technology correspondent at Reuters. I cover Google, its parent company Alphabet, and artificial intelligence.
Until June 2024, I was a staff writer at Forbes Magazine, where I wrote about startups, venture capital, and AI. I was also editor of the AI 50, Cloud 100 and 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology. I received a Best in Business award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing in 2023.
I received a B.S. from Duke University. I was the news editor for The Chronicle, the university's independent daily newspaper. One summer, I watched movies and wrote words for The Ringer.
I grew up in upstate New York and now live in San Francisco with my cat, Ornette.
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Selected reporting
Reuters
Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome — July 2025
Exclusive: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans split after Meta deal, sources say — June 2025
Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say — June 2025
OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent, shelling out millions — May 2025
Google pushes AI upgrades, subscriptions at annual I/O developer event amid search challenges — May 2025
Exclusive: Alphabet, Nvidia invest in OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's SSI, source says — April 2025
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz seeks to raise $20 billion megafund amid global interest in US AI startups — April 2025
Exclusive: Former Cruise CEO Vogt's robotics startup valued at $2 billion in new funding, sources say — March 2025
DeepSeek leaves US AI firms racing to understand its success — January 2025
Exclusive: Databricks nears record $9.5 billion VC raise, eyes extra $4.5 billion debt — December 2024
When AI vies with Taylor Swift as the hot ticket in town — December 2024
Analysis: Why the US forced sale of Google's Chrome faces legal hurdles — November 2024
OpenAI asks investors to avoid five AI startups including Sutskever's SSI, sources say — October 2024
Analysis: Google ad tech trial outcome no death blow, win or lose — September 2024
Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity — September 2024
Exclusive: OpenAI's huge valuation hinges on upending corporate structure — September 2024
Exclusive: OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion — September 2024
Forbes
Investigative profile of Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque, whose used misleading claims and exaggerations to turn his startup into one of the buzziest in AI. Follow-up investigation on the business missteps which culminated in his resignation as CEO. (SABEW 2023)
Magazine cover profile on Alexandr Wang, who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire as cofounder of Scale AI, a startup that manages the human laborers powering AI. Follow-up investigation on business and security concerns within Scale AI's federal arm.
Magazine profiles on Notion founder Ivan Zhao, Databricks cofounder Ali Ghodsi, and Deel cofounder Alex Bouaziz.
Magazine feature on OpenAI's ChatGPT and the rise of generative AI. Online features about the popular chatbot company Character.AI, the venture capital experimentation of prominent AI investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, and the existential crises at AGI House, one of the top hacker houses established amid the AI boom.