--- --- Back to the vault # December 29, 2025 | Vol. 206 No. 21December 29, 2025 | Vol. 206 No. 21  Issue name December 29th, 2025 | Vol. 206, No. 21 | Worldwide Issue date December 29, 2025 Location U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessClimateEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsWorld ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Neal Mohan Is TIME's 2025 CEO of the Year The YouTube CEO has led the platform into a new era of TV and video domination. ### Climate [Climate](/section/climate/) ### How 2025 Broke The Traditional Climate Agenda It was a complicated year for climate action. ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Leonardo DiCaprio Is TIME's 2025 Entertainer of the Year Movie by movie, the actor has crafted a Hollywood career that’s built to last—even in an industry defined by change. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _KPop Demon Hunters_ Is TIME's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year What started as a passion project became a global phenomenon. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Movies of 2025 From 'Blue Moon' to 'Sinners,' TIME's critic names the top films of the year. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025 From 'Forever' to 'Pluribus,' here are our critic's picks for the best of the year. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Books of 2025 From 'Heart the Lover' to 'A Marriage at Sea,' here are our books editor's picks for the best of the year. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Albums of 2025 From Rosalía to Geese, here are TIME's top picks for albums of the year. ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### 2025 Has Been a Year of Unraveling Progress in Health From vaccine hostility to the dismantling of USAID, the consequences of this year’s retrenchments will be felt for years to come. ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### How the U.S. Can Win the AI Race Eric Schmidt says why the U.S. can remain the global AI leader in 2026 only if it competes on all fronts. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Spatial Intelligence Is AI’s Next Frontier AI’s spatial capabilities remain far from the human level but tremendous progress has been made thus far, writes Fei-Fei Li. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### We're Not Ready for AI's Risks It’s possible that we’re nearing the limits of our current approach to frontier AI, says Yoshua Bengio. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### AI Is the Next Industrial Revolution Experts believe that some time within the next 20 years, AI will become much smarter than humans at almost everything including persuasion. ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### All Gas, No Guardrails: Trump’s Whirlwind First Year Back in Office Trump worked to keep himself the focus of attention ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### A'ja Wilson Is TIME's 2025 Athlete of the Year Her fourth MVP award. Her third WNBA title. It was a very good year ### World [World](/section/world/) ### The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world. [World](/section/world/) ### Why the Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year TIME’s editor-in-chief explains why we chose the Architects of AI as the 2025 Person of the Year. [World](/section/world/) ### The Story Behind TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year Covers To illustrate the choice, we commissioned two artists to visualize the complex technological revolution, writes creative director D.W. Pine. December 29th, 2025 | Vol. 206, No. 21 | Worldwide ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 29th, 2025 | Vol. 206, No. 21 | Worldwide","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/7341616/december-29th-2025-vol-206-no-21-worldwide/"}]}]} ```