TIME100 AI 2026 — The 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence Cover honorees: 🧠 Sam Altman — OpenAI 🧠 Dario Amodei — Anthropic 🧠 Jeff Bezos 🧠 Doreen Bogdan-Martin — Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union 🧠 Marian Croak 🧠 Larry Ellison — Oracle 🧠 Joseph Gordon-Levitt — actor, filmmaker 🧠 Paris Hilton 🧠 Lila Ibrahim 🧠 Arvind Krishna — IBM 🧠 Fei-Fei Li 🧠 Mira Murati — Thinking Machines Lab 🧠 Elon Musk — xAI 🧠 David Sacks 🧠 Liz Shuler — labor leader 🧠 Ilya Sutskever 🧠 Eddie Wu Also named on the list: 🧠 Mark Chen — OpenAI 🧠 Greg Brockman — OpenAI 🧠 Bernie Sanders — U.S. Senator 🧠 Yang Zhilin — Moonshot AI 🧠 Ben Affleck 🧠 Daniel Nadler — OpenEvidence 🧠 Vivek Raghavan — Sarvam AI 🧠 Utkarsh Saxena — Adalat AI 🧠 Sanjay Mehrotra — Micron Technology 🧠 Anima Anandkumar — Caltech 🧠 Arvind Raman — NIST 🧠 Suchi Saria — Bayesian Health 🧠 Sunny Gandhi — Encode 🧠 Meetali Jain — Tech Justice Law Project 🧠 Ravi Kumar S — Cognizant 🧠 Deng Taihua — AGIBOT 🧠 Alessandra Sala — Shutterstock Notably absent from this year's list: Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Demis Hassabis. Published August 27, 2026. TIME's fourth annual list, divided into four categories: Leaders, Innovators, Shapers, and Thinkers. 📌 Source: TIME.

At the annual TIME100 Next gala in New York City Thursday, 2026 cover star Ashley Padilla, who captured hearts as a star cast member of SNL this past year, made the room laugh with a toast full of jokes and references to her most notable sketches.

On the TIME100 Next red carpet on Thursday night, comedian and former SNL cast member Chloe Fineman reflected on the most haunting moment of "You Can See Everything." "It was amazing, I can't stop thinking about it," said Fineman, who is known for her eye-popping Elizabeth Holmes impression on social media.

📢 The 2026 Time100 AI list of the worl’d most influential people in artificial intelligence is out! Congratulations to the NEA portfolio companies leaders honored this year: 💡 @alighodsi @databricks 💡 @drfeifei @theworldlabs 💡 @chelseabfinn @physical_int 💡 @ac_edwards_1 @cusp_ai 💡 Liang Mong Song, SMIC 📃:

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