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At Davos 2026, the mood was unlike any previous World Economic Forum gathering. With Donald Trump arriving amid escalating geopolitical tensions and European leaders sounding alarms about sovereignty, I recorded live dispatches from the ground.

In this special episode, I bring together observations from four days at the annual meeting - tracking the seismic shifts in global order alongside the practical realities of AI adoption in the enterprise.I speak about:

* What Trump’s two-hour Davos speech revealed about the new geopolitical reality

* Why technological sovereignty suddenly became urgent for European leaders

* The real state of AI adoption in the enterprise, from executives who are actually doing it

* The startup building AI agents that have completed 115 million patient interactions…

Skip to the best part:

(05:28) Mark Carney’s speech

(06:13) Why European leaders are sounding the alarm

(07:13) Why technological sovereignty is urgent

(14:24) What leaders really have to say on AI adoption

Last week, I set out the underlying argument in an essay on how the breakdown of old geopolitical assumptions is part of a broader upgrade to civilisation’s operating system.

Enjoy!

Azeem

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