Google CIO Ruth Porat said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the tech giant is ready to get to work with the returning president.

I’ll be the first to acknowledge the counter arguments. There are areas where the Trump presidency is bound to slow things down. Companies will be less likely to invest in nascent sectors that rely on supportive government dollars or policy, meaning that technologies like hydrogen and biofuels may take a hit.

Has the merry-go-round of the global elite summit – epitomised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, which concluded this weekend – had its day? As I saw at Davos when I was editor of

In a Davos roundtable discussion with BI, Nicola Mendelsohn, head of Meta's global business group, said the company had been speaking with advertisers in recent days and trying to reassure them that nothing will change. Mendelsohn said advertisers would still be able to stop ads appearing next to political content if they wish.

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

The UK’s competition watchdog is to investigate the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google under new digital market rules that could see pro-competition interventions placed upon them.

As the World Economic Forum begins in Davos, business leaders are talking about what AI and Donald Trump will mean in 2025.

Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu pitched the state as a global investment hub at Davos, meeting leaders from Google Cloud, Petronas, PepsiCo, and Bahrain. He proposed projects like a server design center,

Trump bump meets reality: Concerns that Chinese startup DeepSeek has come up with a powerful new AI model that can do things better, faster and cheaper than the U.S. front-runners rattled stock markets, wiping a whopping $600 billion off chip-maker Nvidia and plunging the Nasdaq into disarray.

The EU sees a trade clash as inevitable and has prepared a list of US goods to hit with duties in retaliation.

Meta, Nvidia, and other tech giants react to DeepSeek's competitive, cost-efficient models that challenge established market players.