COVER STORY This issue: The 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.  LEADERS: Matthew Prince—CEO, CLOUDFLARE. MATTHEW PRINCE had to be converted to the belief that AI is eating the web. It was 18 months ago that he started getting calls from media executives, who complained to him about AI companies copying articles to train their models without compensation. Prince’s fi rst reaction, he says, was to roll his eyes. “Media companies are always complaining about whatever the new technology is,”…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

Once an auto underdog, China’s electric-vehicle boom now powers it tech rise. At Nio’s design workshop in surburban Shanghai, engineers spread billets of clay onto an aluminum frame of a basic car. A robotic arm with a mechanized drill bit then carves a series of grooves into the clay corresponding to a designer’s sketch. The rough surface is then painstakingly smoothed with palette knives before aluminum foil is pasted on top. Finally, the sleek looking metaliic model is rolled into a sunlit courtyard where every curve and camber is scrutinized…

The enhanced games aims to be the alternative Olympics—a multisport competition without the drug testing. When Kristian Gkolomeev woke up one morning in February, the last thing he expected to do was to break a world record in the pool. The Greek swimmer and four-time Olympian, who finished fifth in the 50-m freestyle in Paris and Tokyo, had gone to Greensboro, N.C., to take part in the preview of something called The Enhanced Games, a new start-up that plans to stage an Olympic-style competition…