“Slop” crowned 2025 Word of the Year

2025 was the year of AI. Billions of dollars were invested in AI tech, and the biggest names in several industries have integrated AI at every level.

TIME’s “Person of the Year” was actually a group of people, “The Architects of AI.” That cover issue featured Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Lisa Su (AMD), Elon Musk (xAI and Grok), Jensen Huang (NVIDIA), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Dario Amodei (Anthropic and Claude), and AI researcher Fei-Fei Li. All the big names were there,