2. "by Ray Kurzweil's Team", although accurate I find that fetishization of certain stars to pretty insulting to the other authors, we already have a convention and it's "Cer et al. (2018)"
Personally I think the idea of this paper is pretty good, but the evaluation is weak.
Just do it like in mathematics: Authors in alphabetical order.
At least that’s how it is in (psychology and other?) PhD programs.
So Ray may only be supervising or contributing a small portion and is likely listed on all papers his team publishes.