World Economic Forum

Digital Innovation, Global Tensions Define Davos, Industrial Economy
Digital Innovation, Global Tensions Define Davos, Industrial Economy
January 17, 2024  |  Supply Chain

The World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting is taking place against a complex backdrop. The geopolitical and geoeconomics complications being discussed by world leaders are far from foreign...

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Microsoft Says It’s OK With OpenAI Structure Following Altman Reinstatement
Microsoft Says It’s OK With OpenAI Structure Following Altman Reinstatement
January 16, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he has no problem with partner OpenAI’s governing makeup. His comments, as reported Tuesday (Jan. 15) by Reuters, came two months after the...

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Basel Chair: AI Regulation Should Be Coordinated Global Effort
Basel Chair: AI Regulation Should Be Coordinated Global Effort
January 15, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

The head of the world’s banking watchdog is calling for greater oversight of artificial intelligence. Pablo Hernández de Cos, chair of the Basel Committee on Banking...

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This Week in AI: The Future of Work and Home 
This Week in AI: The Future of Work and Home 
January 12, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), like most programming languages, uses Epoch Time to standardize its operations. Epoch Time is the number of seconds that have elapsed...

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World Economic Forum Plays Both Sides of the AI Debate
World Economic Forum Plays Both Sides of the AI Debate
January 12, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

The world’s academics, CEOs and economists convened in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), with artificial intelligence (AI) occupying a...

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How the World’s Most Urgent Risks Could Impact Payments
How the World’s Most Urgent Risks Could Impact Payments
January 11, 2024  |  Safety and Security

Systemic shifts are taking place across the global economy, bringing with them new, urgent risks. But importantly, within the many era-defining changes underway, including the...

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Attack Vectors 2024: Misinformation Tops Global Risk List, WEF Says
Attack Vectors 2024: Misinformation Tops Global Risk List, WEF Says
January 10, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. That’s a quote from Winston Churchill, who...

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Global CBDC Real-Time Payment Network Launches in Davos
Global CBDC Real-Time Payment Network Launches in Davos
January 19, 2023  |  CBDC

Leave it to the lofty inspirations of the World Economic Forum to come up with the Universal Digital Payments Network. This, as the new cross-border...

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CEO Says Uber Has No Plans for Widespread Job Cuts
CEO Says Uber Has No Plans for Widespread Job Cuts
January 19, 2023  |  Economy

Uber’s CEO says the rideshare/delivery giant has no plans for company-wide layoffs. Dara Khosrowshahi made these comments — reported by Reuters — at the World...

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