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TIME's 2025 Athlete of the Year, A'ja Wilson, speaks on negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. Read the full interview at the link in bio https://lnkd.in/emnHjzZY

Mental health is a major theme of 'KPop Demon Hunters,' TIME's Breakthrough of the Year. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eT7fjyiZ

We’re not ready for AI’s risks, writes Yoshua Bengio https://lnkd.in/eWhkiF5S

“There’s a belief that the world’s GDP is somehow limited at $100 trillion,” Jensen Huang, the head of NVIDIA, tells TIME. “AI is going to cause that $100 trillion to become $500 trillion.” The tone for AI’s growth in 2025 was set at Trump’s Inauguration. Tech moguls streamed into Washington; some sat behind the President during his Inaugural Address, a signal of the power they would wield. Over the next 11 months, they would use their enormous cash reserves, cultural power, and momentum to push their products into homes across the world. At Meta, Mark Zuckerberg placed a chatbot into flagship products like Instagram and WhatsApp, raided rivals to amass talent, and doled out compensation packages that paid machine-learning engineers more than professional ballplayers. Sam Altman completed his transformation of OpenAI, shedding profit caps for investors and paving the way for future investment in the $500 billion colossus. Anthropic, the frontier lab that styles itself as the most safety-conscious, reportedly made plans to go public at a $300 billion valuation. (Salesforce, where TIME owner Marc Benioff serves as CEO, is an investor in Anthropic.) Musk built data centers in record time. Google inserted Gemini AI answers at the top of its search engine. Top investors, like SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, plowed billions into chips, self-driving cars, and capital infrastructure. And it shows no sign of slowing. Read more about our 2025 Person of the Year, The Architects of AI: https://lnkd.in/etbjfawh Photograph by Joe Pugliese for TIME

AI is the next Industrial Revolution, argues Geoffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus of Computer Science https://lnkd.in/erXp_DmD

Eric Schmidt: Here's how the U.S. can win the AI race https://lnkd.in/eBivDPcT

In 2025, artificial intelligence changed our world in new, exciting, and sometimes frightening ways. Tech titans grabbed the wheel of history, developing technology and making decisions that are reshaping the information landscape, the climate, and our livelihoods. Racing both beside and against each other, they placed multibillion-dollar bets on one of the biggest physical infrastructure projects of all time. They reoriented government policy, altered geopolitical rivalries, and brought robots into homes. AI emerged as arguably the most consequential tool in Great Power competition since the advent of nuclear weapons. Read more about the Architects of AI, TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year: https://lnkd.in/etbjfawh

2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back. Whatever the question was, AI was the answer. Person of the Year is a powerful way to focus the world’s attention on the people that shape our lives. And this year, no one had a greater impact than the individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI. Humanity will determine AI’s path forward, and each of us can play a role in determining AI’s structure and future. Our work has trained it and sustained it, and now we find ourselves moving through a world increasingly defined by it. For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year. https://lnkd.in/etbjfawh Pictured: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Lisa Su, CEO of AMD; Elon Musk, xAI; Jensen Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia; Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute and CEO of World Labs Illustration by Peter Crowther for TIME; Painting by Jason Seiler for TIME

YouTube's Neal Mohan, TIME's 2025 CEO of the Year, talks about the platform's role in culture and political discourse, its relationship to creators and kids, and his vision for its future. https://lnkd.in/e5KjneWE

TIME’s 2025 Entertainer of the Year Leonardo DiCaprio talked with his mentor and longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese about making movies that follow the “soul” of a character. https://lnkd.in/eu7Npfvv