According to the World Economic Forum, reskilling and upskilling are critical for building a future-ready workforce.

A day-long event filled with MIT speakers, including Sally Kornbluth and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, touched on AI sustainability and US-China competition.

Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

A discussion in Davos of how AI is changing leadership, with Francine Katsoudas (Cisco), Parker Mitchell (Valence), Amy Edmondson (Harvard), and Klaus Moosmayer (Novartis).

A speech by the U.N. chief, economic growth potential in places like China and Russia, the challenges of artificial intelligence and leaders from Spain to Malaysia are set to headline the agenda at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos.

More than 3,000 global leaders will meet in Switzerland next week to seek solutions for some of the most pressing issues of the day

Tuesday saw the World Economic Forum in Davos begin in earnest. Not even a star turn from David Beckham could stop AI dominating conversations.

According to a survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF) conducted among a hundred large companies worldwide, 41% of them plan to reduce their workforce.

We are closing our live coverage of the 2025 Word Economic Forum in Davos. Goodbye. Al Hassaina Mosque on December 3, 2021, and the mosque after its destruction in an Israeli strike during the war, in Gaza City, January 22, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Mahmoud Al-Basos

As The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland unfolded over the last week, each day marked an important stride in the global business and political landscape.

The event saw a host of world leaders, executives, and celebrities come together in the Alpine town to discuss some of the hottest global topics.

António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, headlined a flurry of activities and talk sessions on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum’s ... and perils of AI and the new line ...