Davos day two: Nadella, Khosrowshahi, and Fink lead discussions on AI and capitalism

Businessinsider is on the ground for day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff were on the agenda.

Nadella said he now uses Copilot to prepare briefs for back-to-back meetings and shares those AI-generated overviews across his teams. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi argued companies must "break those rules and start over" to unlock AI, and predicted that "20 years from now" many Ubers will be driven by "robot drivers" that can be safer than humans. Fink opened the forum by warning of a crisis of confidence in such gatherings and urged capitalism to evolve so more people become owners of growth rather than spectators.

President Donald Trump is expected in Davos on Wednesday and his speech has been called the centerpiece of the meeting; some executives declined to speculate on its content. Attendees also flagged M&A activity and AI cybersecurity (and the long-term threat from quantum computing) as top concerns, while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged calm over trade tensions as the week’s talks and potential deals play out.

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Business, World Economic Forum, Satya Nadella, Dara Khosrowshahi, Larry Fink, M&a