Faisal Islam: Global disruption looms large over biggest-ever Davos

After all, let’s not forget the lessons of last year’s Davos, where the US triumphalism on display on the Tuesday had been utterly superseded by the end of the week with news about a strange Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek.

It was at Davos a decade ago that I was first told about a quantum computer.

Then, last year at a session on car batteries I came away convinced that US and European car manufacturers had no chance of catching the Chinese technology this decade.

Many people rail against Davos. But it will be worth tuning in: the future can be found in some of its most brightly branded corners.