Helen A. S. Popkin

This year’s inductees reflect the booming VC interest as well as the growing variability in AI-focused startups making unique uses of existing technologies, others developing their own and many simply enabling other companies to add AI to their business model. By Helen A. S. Popkin The mad scramble to adopt Artificial Intelligence amid the Covid-19 crisis is officially old news.

More than 400 companies were considered for this year’s list. Finalists were selected based on their use of AI-enabled technology, business models and financials. By Alan Ohnsman T he Forbes AI 50 list celebrates the most promising private companies in North America using artificial intelligence in impactful ways and demonstrating real business potential from doing so.

This year's Forbes Under 30 Europe list for Manufacturing & Industry features young people who are innovating in surprising ways. The Covid pandemic forced a lot of previously hands-on jobs to go remote. But few jobs are as challenging to do from a distance as those in engineering, construction and manufacturing. Giulia Pedretti, 26, knows that better than most. Her health and safety consultancy, Arteak, works with industry projects around the world.