ImageImageLeaders in politics, business and culture will gather in New York for the DealBook Summit today to speak with The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. He interviewed Jeff Bezos of Amazon at last year’s event.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

Andrew here. Today, Wednesday, is the day: The DealBook Summit begins in a couple of hours. We have an exciting lineup of newsmakers who will discuss the most critical issues of the moment. Please follow along. More below.

The lineup for DealBook Summit 2025

DealBook will be live at our annual summit in New York on Wednesday.

Andrew will kick things off around 9 a.m. Eastern, and the first conversation will get underway shortly after. The DealBook team and reporters from The Times will be reporting live from the conference.

Even if you are not with us, you can follow along on the New York Times home page beginning around 8:30 a.m. Eastern.

Here are the speakers in order of appearance (the conversations that will be streamed live on NYTimes.com are noted in parentheses):

• Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasury secretary (livestream)

• Brian Armstrong, C.E.O. of Coinbase, and Larry Fink, chairman and C.E.O. of BlackRock

• Mary Barra, chair and C.E.O. of G.M.

• Lai Ching-te, president of Taiwan

• Alex Karp, co-founder and C.E.O. of Palantir

• Dario Amodei, co-founder and C.E.O. of Anthropic

• Halle Berry, founder of Respin, filmmaker and advocate

• Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, creator, entrepreneur and philanthropist; and Jeff Housenbold, C.E.O. of Beast Industries

• Gavin Newsom, governor of California (livestream)

• Erika Kirk, C.E.O. and board chair of Turning Point USA (livestream)

What to watch: The buzz, fears and questions around artificial intelligence and the gargantuan investments being made to commercialize it; the future of the Fed and central bank independence; how President Trump’s tariffs are affecting business, inflation and global trade; America’s affordability crunch and its impact on politics; the future of electric vehicles in Trump’s America; social media’s effect on society; the future of philanthropy; trade wars; the West’s relationship with China, and China’s relationship with its neighbors — these topics and more will be covered by Andrew as he interviews some of the biggest newsmakers in business, politics and culture.

There will be plenty of questions about an uncertain future. Does the blockbuster A.I. stock rally have more room to run? Or do the sky-high valuations of A.I. companies portend a bubble in the making? The Trump administration has been actively cutting deals with chief executives, in some cases taking stakes in companies. Does this signal a new era of American capitalism in which the state — and not the market — helps pick the winners and losers? Speaking of which, is free-market capitalism on life support?

Looking elsewhere, as we head into the midterm elections, how are the Republican and Democratic parties changing? Will new waves of populism transform American politics?

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