The news out of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting was largely about geopolitics: U.S. President Donald Trump and Greenland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for a united armed forces for Europe, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speech about a rupture of the world order and a signing ceremony for the ‘Board of Peace’ that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza. But technology was also front and center.
This year’s annual meeting included AI’s impact on jobs, sovereignty, health, energy and cybersecurity. It also turned a spotlight on the trajectory of other frontier technologies. The focus was on how emerging technologies and entrepreneurship can drive growth, resilience, and inclusion in an increasingly complex global environment,
Among other things, tech sessions covered a shift in emphasis from large language models (LLMs) to world models, why quantum is here and why it is not, the role of next gen technologies in solving the energy crisis, why we need bio-innovation to solve disruptions in supply chains and the 2026 cybersecurity outlook.
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