Overview
- Elon Musk’s “peace or piece” quip about taking “a little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela” drew laughs and became one of Davos’s most discussed moments.
- The Board of Peace, chaired by President Trump, was presented for Gaza reconstruction but its charter describes a broader international mandate, according to language circulated to invited countries.
- Regulators across Europe and Asia have opened investigations, imposed restrictions and demanded safeguards targeting sexually explicit outputs from xAI’s Grok chatbot.
- Musk said Tesla could begin selling humanoid robots as early as next year and predicted AI systems could surpass any human’s intelligence by the end of this year or next.
- The appearance marked Musk’s first time on the World Economic Forum stage after years of criticizing the gathering as elitist.