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.

Business Insider's diary takes you behind the scenes on day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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

As business titans and world leaders gathered Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the opening of the annual World Economic Forum, all eyes were on President Donald Trump ’s taking power again in Washington.

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

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.

The global elite know Donald Trump better than almost anyone after his first presidency shocked boardrooms and foreign capitals.

Now, as Trump returns to the White House thanks, partially, to money from Silicon Valley, it stands to reason that the big tech platforms currently suffering from European regulatory scrutiny would want it to end. As tech CEOs line up to schmooze with the president, this is surely what companies like Apple, Meta, and Amazon were hoping for.

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.

BI is talking to people on topics from AI to the economy to how consulting firms are gearing up for a big year. This is what we're hearing on the ground. The World Economic Forum has brought the rich and powerful together to discuss topics ranging from Donald Trump's impact on the economy to AI's impact on their industries.

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.