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AI has minted a new power structure. A handful of private companies command the might and wealth of small nation-states and are mostly left alone to self-govern. A few hundred employees are on the brink of becoming centimillionaires and considering which causes and presidential candidates they will funnel their vast resources toward. One way to tell the story of how AI is changing our world is through some newly familiar names: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang. But an astonishing amount of power rests in the hands of a few dozen other people, some virtually anonymous. For this year’s annual “Power” issue, we are surfacing 26 people whose influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame. We partnered with ‘Transformer,’ a publication with a command of the politics within transformative AI, whose team drew on its years of reporting, as well as new interviews with more than 50 high-ranking industry leaders, to help articulate what makes these people powerful. The AI scene is small. Many are remarkably intertwined, sharing offices, homes, and funding. The list’s average age is 36. It is also overwhelmingly male. At the link in our bio, read about the few dozen power brokers who will decide how AI shakes out, refashioning the world for the rest of us in the process. 02 Nov 2026

One way to tell the story of how AI is changing our world is through some newly familiar names: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang. But an astonishing amount of power rests in the hands of a few dozen other people, some virtually anonymous. Many of these people are tasked with shaping how the public, or a company, thinks about AI. Some are reimagining how we interact with AI, such as developing models that could change our relationship to work. Others are spinning up advocacy groups with a single check. For our annual “Power” issue, we partnered with ‘Transformer’ magazine, a publication with a command of the politics within transformative AI, to surface 26 people whose influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame. These individuals are remarkably intertwined: Many share offices, homes, and funding. The list’s average age is 36. It is overwhelmingly male. These names come from both private and public sectors, so you’ll find founders and engineers as well as lawmakers and regulators. Most importantly, they still have everything to play for. Tap the link in our bio to read about the executive who stands between us and the next rogue AI model, the nonprofit founder who could force the industry’s secrets into the open — and more power brokers who are quietly shaping the future of AI. Artwork by Simon Denny (@sden023) 02 Nov 2026

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever.” In this episode of SHAKESPEARE FASTBALL, theater critic Sara Holdren explains why the Bard's romantic comedy is the perfect entry point for newcomers, and why the Kenneth Branagh movie is so delicious. Watch this before you see it on Broadway this fall with @twhiddleston and @wellhayley. Dost thou crave more? At the link in our bio, sign up for our subscriber-exclusive newsletter, New York Night School: How to Watch, Read, and Love Shakespeare, in which Holdren takes you on a crash course on diving bravely and brazenly into the plays of Shakespeare. Video by @zachschiffman Edited by @melissa_edits_stuff 06 Nov 2026

On September 23, Richie O’Brien was walking his bicycle across Central Park’s East Drive at 84th Street, near the Metropolitan Museum, on his way to his job as a steamfitter when another biker crashed into him. O’Brien died. Less than two weeks later, a golden retriever darted out onto East Drive near the same spot and a 71-year-old cyclist slammed on the brakes, flew over the handlebars, and was killed. The six-mile Central Park Drive that loops around the park’s edge was built as a carriage road, later requisitioned for cars, and temporarily cleansed of motorized vehicles. Now it’s a chaotic conduit for one- and two-wheeled vehicles, electrified and not. While flocks of road racers treat the 20-mile-per-hour speed limit as a challenge, families on holiday see the roadway as a safe space for a leisurely two-wheeled amble. The trouble is that members of the large groups, the slow and the fast, collide with bone-crushing regularity. Death is a rare result, but its specter is ever-present. “So far, the Central Park Conservancy and the NYPD have tackled those threats with an ineffectual combination of pleading, finger-wagging, and a few tickets a week,” writes architecture critic Justin Davidson. “None of that goes far enough.” In the end, making the Drive less scary means promoting the one thing most New Yorkers loathe: slowness. The most radical move is the most necessary — altering the geometry of the Drive. At the link in our bio, read Davidson on why a redesign of Central Park Drive is essential to slowing it all down. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images, Maxmust/Wikimedia Commons, Jonathan Harbourne/Alamy 06 Nov 2026

April 3–16, 2017 / A precursor of this week’s results. 06 Nov 2026

Most people know Steve Kornacki (@steve01450), NBC’s chief data analyst, as the white-shirt-and-khakis, nerdy-sexy stat guy who meticulously breaks down poll results on Election Night. He also makes regular appearances on the network’s sports broadcasts — as he did this past weekend at the Breeders’ Cup — but despite his weekly presence on the network’s Sunday-night NFL coverage, Election Day is Kornacki’s real Super Bowl. (This year, he live-streamed updates for over ten hours straight courtesy of the “Kornacki Cam,” amassing a record 29 million views.) Having spent over a decade covering politics, Kornacki has developed a strict Election Night routine that purposely excludes food. “I read a biography of Red Auerbach, the legendary Boston Celtics coach, many years ago,” says Kornacki, who grew up in the Boston area. “He never ate on a game day because he believed that it took his edge off. That’s stuck with me through the years.” Read Kornacki’s election-prep #GrubStreetDiet at the link in our bio. Illustration: @ryan_inzana 06 Nov 2026

On a scale from the Astor Place cube to Circle in the Square, where does @deneebenton fit? This is NYQ, the series where we find out how “New York” notable New Yorkers really are. Would you answer these questions differently? Let us know in the comments. If you’re a fan of Denée on @gildedagehbo, sign up for our TV club at the link in bio to follow along this season. And listen to the cast’s Christmas album, out now! Video by @zachschiffman Edited by @melissa_edits_stuff 06 Nov 2026

The title of Rod Blagojevich’s upcoming memoir, ‘Framed, F*cked, and Freed,’ is a defiant summation of his attitude toward his past legal woes. “I feel like I got cheated,” he says. In November 2008, the former Illinois governor was caught on an FBI wiretap seemingly making plans to profit from Barack Obama’s recently vacated U.S. Senate seat. Blagojevich maintains that he was framed. Jurors disagreed, and Michael Madigan, the Speaker of the Illinois house of representatives at the time, rushed to impeach him. The move ensured that, no matter the outcome of his legal case, Blagojevich could never hold state-level office again. This remains an especially sore subject because the convictions didn’t all hold up. Then–U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald’s conviction of him for trying to “sell” Obama’s Senate seat was overturned in 2015. Another charge, for seeking campaign contributions in exchange for approving funding for a children’s hospital, was upheld. (Blagojevich denies wrongdoing in both instances.) In February 2020, almost eight years into his sentence, Blagojevich was “freed” by President Donald Trump, who had taken a liking to him when he competed on ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ while out on bail. “You get me out of jail, you get my vote,” he says. Another problem for Blagojevich is his family wants him nowhere near public office again. “I don’t see a day where my family will ever be onboard — but I’m not giving up!” At the link in our bio, @zakhasani speaks with the disgraced former governor about what’s next. Photo: @_lyndonfrench_ 06 Nov 2026

The #LookBook goes to @artbasel Paris, where artists, gallerists, and collectors roamed the Grand Palais before demonstrations forced the fair to close early. Tap the link in our bio for more. Photos: @frankiealduino Interviews by @freemans_land 05 Nov 2026

A year and a half ago, the former YouTuber @MissBenny became friendly with Jordan Firstman at a dinner they were both invited to and spent the entire meal, by her own admission, bullying him for being “the ultimate gay guy” — dishy, cocky, sexual. She charmed him. “She spoke earnestly about her life in a way I was drawn to. I found her incredibly endearing,” Firstman says. “He randomly was like, ‘What are you doing in October? You should do this movie,’” she recalls. “I was like, ‘Yeah, let me do your little gay-guy movie.’ I’m going to help him out.” That little movie ended up being the Cannes breakout ‘Club Kid,’ which received rave reviews, sold at the festival to A24 for $17 million, and is now a bona fide awards-season contender. “Much later, I realized how sought-after this project was,” Miss Benny says. “I’m so glad I didn’t know because I would’ve absolutely lost my mind.” Though she’s in many of the movie’s raucous nightlife scenes, Miss Benny’s favorite part was getting to play a trans girl outside the party space. “With a lot of scripts that I read, if I ever get sent stuff, it’s girls going crazy on drugs and sex,” she says. The idea of playing a self-actualized woman onscreen is new for Miss Benny, whose fame was built pre-transition. In her teens and early 20s, perceived as a young gay man, she rode the wave of corporate-Pride-era queerness to nearly 300,000 YouTube subscribers. In 2023, she starred in the Netflix show ‘Glamorous’ as the 22-year-old influencer Marco, who lands a job with a makeup mogul played by Kim Cattrall. But she stopped posting on YouTube in 2019 and hasn’t been onscreen since ‘Glamorous.’ ‘Club Kid’ is something of a coming-out party. Read our full profile of Miss Benny at the link in our bio. Photographs by @cruzcvaldez Styling by @fern.cerezo Hair by @sonnymolinahair Makeup by @kuma1206 Bodysuit and tights by Los Angeles Apparel 05 Nov 2026

Senior art critic @JerrySaltz wants you to LOOK AT THIS: “BEN GAZZARA” cycle by Arthur Jafa (@anamibia). Jafa recasts the climactic massacre in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and in Jerry’s words, “Scorsese flinched. Jafa doesn’t.” Go take it in yourself at the @newmuseum through January 3, then come right back to this video and let us know your thoughts. For more from Jerry Saltz, sign up for his new newsletter “How to Visit an Art Museum” at the link in our bio. Each edition will outline the most essential works in the permanent collections of museums around the city. 05 Nov 2026

The Supreme Court’s decision in ‘Louisiana v. Callais’ had allowed Southern Republicans to draw their states’ congressional maps to dilute Black votes. Alabama’s Second Congressional District, which Congressman Shomari Figures represents, went from being 47 percent Black to 40 — it now included parts of the state where President Trump’s worst performance in 2024 was in a county he won with 73 percent of the vote. But on Tuesday, Democrats exceeded even the most starry-eyed projections, winning a 255-seat majority in the House and flipping seven Senate seats (and counting) in an emphatic rebuke of Trump. The results had pundits buzzing about a regional realignment. One of the crucial factors was the unexpected ability of Figures — and several of his fellow House Democrats — to outrun the Republican gerrymanders ‘Callais’ ushered in. Their victories underscored the power of a coalition built on the party’s regional base: Black voters. And it led to discussion of retribution for redistricting. But Figures was more cautious about the results this week. “People generally draw broader conclusions out of a single election than it warrants,” he said the morning after the election. “We can’t pretend like this is some broader statement than it may actually be.” Democratic voters and pundits were rightly excited about the party’s underrated strength in the South. But another upshot is clear. “Figures’s reelection was remarkable in light of the odds, and it is hard to imagine a repeat in a post-‘Callais’ landscape where Republicans are free to dilute Black votes to the point of irrelevancy or in a year when Democrats are not riding a blue tsunami,” writes Zak Cheney-Rice. At the link in our bio, read Cheney-Rice’s report on how Figures fought off a map designed to unseat him and why Republicans may use it as a data point to make sure it never happens again. Photo: Alamy 05 Nov 2026

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