The current pandemic situation makes it "extremely difficult to deliver a global in-person meeting," the forum said.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recent, public infighting about AI is the result of the firm’s transparency. Google has been scrutinised after departures and public complaints from its AI ethics team. Pichai admitted the tech giant needed ‘to get better as a company.’ Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. […]

World leaders are concerned former President Donald Trump did irreversible damage to democracy, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “We are worrying about whether democracy itself might have been permanently damaged in the last four years,” she said, expressing horror at the Capitol siege. The EU chief […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new speech on Wednesday warned about the potential for global conflict. Putin said the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated tensions worldwide, and it could result in “a fight of all against all.” The Russian leader’s remarks came as he faced unrest at home and a […]

In March 1988, Prince Charles was involved in a fatal avalanche accident at a Swiss ski resort. The accident has come back into focus as a storyline in season four, episode 9 of Netflix’s hit series “The Crown,” released November 15. The avalanche and death of Major Hugh Lindsay marked […]

The World Economic Forum’s flagship Davos summit might be cancelled for 2021, according to a report in the Swiss media. Originally, the event was scheduled to take place from January 26-29 but was postponed to “early next summer” because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A WEF spokesperson told swissinfo.ch that the […]

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will be open to the public in 2021, its organisers announced in a press release Wednesday. The meeting, better known as “Davos” after the Swiss ski resort that hosts it, is an elite gathering of billionaires and heads of state held every January. The […]

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This year the Davos crowd of business executives tepidly accepted President Trump, and that acceptance exposed a dirty secret. For all the CEO talk about the benefits of free-market capitalism and open societies, the people of corporate Davos have shown they’re willing to set those values aside if the economy […]

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“People are an organisation’s most significant source of competitive advantage,” Accenture’s HR chief Ellyn Shook told Business Insider at the Davos 2020 conference. Even as more work gets automated, Shook said “uniquely human skills” such as creativity, collaboration, and communication are becoming increasingly valuable. Shook said Accenture looks at technology […]

The surge in corporate discussions about the impact of climate change still far outweighs the solutions that are being put forward, according to panelists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Christian Mumenthaler, CEO of the reinsurance giant Swiss Re, said companies do not need to decide between stakeholder […]

Gebran Bassil, Lebanon’s former foreign minister, said during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos that he came to the conference on his own expense, not the Lebanese government’s. Instead, Bassil said the trip “was offered to me,” to which CNBC’s moderator said “I’d like to have friends […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sprung to Greta Thunberg’s defence after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday the teenage activist should study economics before lecturing the US on climate change. “If you don’t have an economics degree like Greta, they will mock you for not having one,” the Democratic congresswoman and […]

Dell’s Chief Marketing Officer Allison Dew says there needs to be a broader and deeper conversation around the impact of technology that goes beyond debates that impact social media. Dew said not enough attention has been given to both positive contributions of technology in such areas as health care and […]

JLL, the second-largest commercial real estate services and brokerage firm in the world, has been investing heavily in tech. Christian Ulbrich, JLL’s CEO, told Business Insider at Davos that the company has beeing collecting and utilising data to better serve its clients. Ulbrich highlighted technologies that monitor space utilization as […]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says the country is “totally ready” for US President Donald Trump to go ahead with plans under consideration to withdraw 4,000 US troops from the country. “We are totally ready for a withdrawal of 4,000 troops any time the president decides,” Ghani said Thursday at the […]