Time Magazine International Edition

The direction AI travels will be determined not by machines but by people Today we publish the third edition of the TIME100 AI, our annual look at the most influential people in artificial intelligence. We launched this list in 2023, in the wake of OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, the moment many became aware of AI’s potential to compete with and exceed the capabilities of humans. Our aim was to show how the direction AI travels will be determined not by machines but by people—innovators, advocates, artists, and everyone with a stake in the future of this technology. Our aspiration for TIME is to be your trusted guide through this transformation. This year’s list further confirms our focus on people. One of the dominant AI storylines of 2025 has been the…

To create this year’s TIME100 AI cover, artist Refik Anadol fine-tuned his studio’s AI system on an archive containing each of TIME’s more than 5,000 covers to date, spanning over 100 years. The resulting abstract visualization—featuring Anadol’s signature flowing, molecular aesthetic—represents the AI “dreaming” about a century of TIME’s visual history. Following the success of his 2022 MOMA exhibition, which attracted 3 million people, Anadol aims to offer a hopeful vision. “The future is not a fixed destination to be afraid of, but a fluid reality we can actually shape,” he tells TIME. TIME’s Impact Leadership Forum and dinner TIME’s Impact Leadership Forum took place on Aug. 7 on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. It opened with a discussion on intergenerational collaboration, featuring (above left, from left) panelists María Teresa Kumar of…

It was around midnight in Moscow when Vladimir Putin took a call from the White House. President Donald Trump had just spent several hours, on Aug. 18, in meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven other leaders from Europe who had come along in a frantic effort to shore up U.S. support for the Ukrainian position. Now Trump was telling Putin about what he believed needed to be the next step: the leaders of the warring sides, Trump said, should meet in person and try to make progress toward peace. Putin seemed to have other plans. After the call, the Kremlin issued a mealymouthed statement, suggesting that it might be worth “exploring the possibility of raising the level of representatives” in future peace talks. Whatever that means, it seemed…

A detention center poised to become the largest of its kind in the U.S. opened on a military base in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 17. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was an effort to “decompress ICE detention facilities in other regions.” More than $1 billion will be invested in the Fort Bliss center to expand its current 1,000-bed capacity to 5,000. Dubbed Lone Star Lockup, its opening is part of the Trump Administration’s effort to use U.S. military bases and personnel to enforce immigration rules. INFRASTRUCTURE BOOM A Washington Post report found that ICE plans to add more than 41,000 detention beds in 2025, nearly doubling its capacity from the start of the year, to “deliver on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations,” Assistant Homeland Security…

212,000. That’s how many women ages 20 and over have left the U.S. workforce since January, according to the most recent jobs numbers released Aug. 1 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (By contrast, 44,000 men of the same age have entered the workforce since January.) The numbers are especially stark for women with children. From January to June, the labor-force participation rate of women ages 25 to 44 living with a child under 5 fell nearly 3 percentage points, from 69.7% to 66.9%, says Misty Lee Heggeness, an associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Kansas. It’s a big reversal. The participation of those women had soared in 2022, 2023, and 2024, peaking in January 2025, as flexible work policies helped women join the workforce…

DIED Jim Lovell The hard-luck moon man It is one of history’s great injustices that circumstance denied Jim Lovell the moon. Once the most experienced man in spaceflight—with two trips in the Gemini program and two lunar missions in Apollo—Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, went places few others have gone and saw things few others had seen. But he never had the opportunity to get his white, NASA-issued moon boots dirty with gray lunar soil. Lovell is best remembered, of course, not for those two Gemini missions, which he flew in Earth orbit, or even for the Apollo 8 mission, which saw him and crewmates Frank Borman and Bill Anders become the first humans to orbit the moon, on Christmas Eve 1968. What he is best known…