Davos 2026: Where Billionaires Talk AI While Sleep-Deprived Journalists Suffer

KEY POINTS

•Business Insider’s team covered Davos 2026 live near snowy Swiss streets where global elites gathered.
•President Trump’s attendance caused long security lines and dominated high-stakes talks on NATO, Greenland, and Gaza.
•Conversations focused on AI’s slow ROI, corporate overhauls needed, and uncertain futures for young workers and middle managers.

Davos 2026 wrapped up with Business Insider’s motley crew reporting live from snowy Switzerland, juggling AI despair and political circuses. First-timer Aki Ito noticed the AI hype dialed down from optimism to sober 'meh,' spotlighting years of corporate soul-crushing overhauls needed for a decent ROI. Meanwhile, Trump crashed the party, causing traffic jams and security lines long enough to rival IKEA on a Sunday, dominating talks on NATO, Greenland, and Gaza. Elon Musk couldn’t mock the summit long and flew in for a surprise CEO pow-wow with BlackRock’s Larry Fink, who personally begged Trump to attend like a desperate prom date. Poor recent grads got grim AI warnings with no clear path for middle managers stuck in the crossfire—plus a secret Davos hair hack that’s apparently more reliable than tech predictions. And while we’re still waiting on robot uprising news, OpenAI’s humanoids got a sneak peek backstage, with Musk promising to turn sci-fi nightmares into science fact. All the while, weary reporters dreamt of sleep, proving we’re all terrible drivers of our own exhaustion on life’s snowy highway.