Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Miss Teen USA Crowns 2026 Winner
There’s a new pageant queen in town. At the conclusion of Miss Teen USA on Aug. 27, Kiran Reddy of Georgia was crowned the 2026 titleholder, picking up the mantle from 2025 winner Mailyn Marsh. “It feels so surreal,” the 18-year-old told cameras at the close of the ceremony. “And I’m so blessed to represent…
Read MoreThe heartbreaking reason why Za’Darius Smith abruptly retired before surprising return
Za’Darius Smith’s surprise retirement came down to family first. The 33-year-old defensive end explained his midseason retirement from the Eagles in 2025 at his first press conference since returning to the NFL. “I wasn’t supposed to retire,” Smith said Tuesday. “I wasn’t going to tell the story, but I’m going to tell it. I got a…
Read MoreTIME Reveals the 2026 TIME100 AI List of the World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence
Today, TIME reveals the fourth annual TIME100 AI list, recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. The 2026 TIME100 AI issue includes one worldwide cover featuring listmakers, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jeff Bezos, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Marian Croak, Larry Ellison, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paris Hilton, Lila Ibrahim, Arvind Krishna, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati, Elon Musk,…
Read MoreHarry Styles Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton During Opening Night at Madison Square Garden
“A world without Dolly doesn’t feel possible, real, or right. But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy will be an everlasting one,” Swift said in a statement to E! News. “She was truly the gift that kept…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Andrea Bartz
New York Times-bestselling thriller author Andrea Bartz struggled for years to hone her writing style and gain success in the literary world. So when she found out in 2023 that pirated versions of her books were being fed into AI systems, allowing them to spit out dozens of pages in her prose style in a…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Max Spero
AI-generated writing has distinct patterns—and Pangram Labs says it can detect them. The company says its AI-powered models can discern with over 99.5% accuracy whether a piece of writing was produced entirely by humans or AIs, according to its internal tests. Those tests also show its tools are able to differentiate between human- and AI-written…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Yann LeCun
Mark Zuckerberg called Yann LeCun one Sunday last November. Word had gotten out that LeCun, who built Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, was leaving to start his own venture. Zuckerberg urged him to stay. Good luck raising the money and good luck building a product the market would believe, LeCun recalls him saying. The…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Veronyka Gimenes
Veronyka Gimenes wants you to know AI can be used to fight back. In 2025, Gimenes and Amanda Claro, co-founders of the Brazilian advocacy group Código Não Binário, created TybyrIA, an open-source AI model for detecting anti-LGBTQIA+ hate speech. The model allowed them to categorize evidence at scale for a lawsuit against social media companies.…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Sanmi Koyejo
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Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Wafa Ben-Hassine
Since stepping into the role of U.N. Human Rights Office’s first chief of digital technology and human rights earlier this year, Wafa Ben-Hassine has been thinking about ways to better work with decisionmakers on AI. “Instead of just writing endless papers that collect dust, what can we actually do to talk to companies about how…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Philip Colligan
Philip Colligan’s greatest fear is that parents and educators will treat the AI revolution the way they treated the advent of the Internet—which is to say, they won’t engage in teaching children how to responsibly use it until it’s too late. “We are in the middle of those systems being introduced into healthcare, finance, criminal…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt sees his contribution to the AI conversation as a storyteller, helping people understand what widespread adoption of the technology and the current economic structures around it could mean for them. Companies, he notes, are incentivized to maximize shareholder value. “And that’s not necessarily going to line up with the technology being good for…
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