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"One-third of Gen Z says they believe they'll never be able to pay off their debt, and more than half believe they’ll never own a home." - Fortune Magazine - January 2026

Quote: Gen-Z disillusion – Fortune Magazine

"Context engineering is the discipline of systematically designing and managing the information environment for AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), to ensure they receive the right data, tools, and instructions in the right format, at the right time, for optimal performance." - Context engineering -

Term: Context engineering

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it." - George Orwell - English author

Quote: George Orwell

While the headlines from Davos were dominated by geopolitical conflict and debates on AGI timelines and asset bubbles, a different signal emerged from the noise. It wasn't about if AI works, but how it is being ruthlessly integrated into the real economy.In our latest podcast, we break down the "Diffusion Strategy" defining 2026. 3 Key Takeaways: China and the "Global South" are trying to leapfrog: While the West debates regulation, emerging economies are treating AI as essential infrastructure.China has set a goal for 70% AI diffusion by 2027.The UAE has mandated AI literacy in public schools from K-12.Rwanda is using AI to quadruple its healthcare workforce. The Rise of the "Agentic Self": We aren't just using chatbots anymore; we are employing agents. Entrepreneur Steven Bartlett revealed he has established a "Head of Experimentation and Failure" to use AI to disrupt his own business before competitors do. Musician will.i.am argued that in an age of predictive machines, humans must cultivate their "agentic self" to handle the predictable, while remaining unpredictable themselves.Rewiring the Core: Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi noted the difference between an "AI veneer" and a fundamental rewire. It's no longer about summarising meetings; it's about autonomous agents resolving customer issues without scripts. The Global Advisors Perspective: Don't wait for AGI. The current generation of models is sufficient to drive massive value today. The winners will be those who control their "sovereign capabilities" - embedding their tacit knowledge into models they own.Read our original perspective? here - https://with.ga/w1bd5? Listen to the full breakdown here #Davos2026 #WEF26 #WEF2026 #AI #GlobalAdvisors #Strategy #Diffusion #AgenticAI

Podcast – The Real AI Signal from Davos 2026

"Prompt engineering is the practice of designing, refining, and optimizing the instructions (prompts) given to generative AI models to guide them into producing accurate, relevant, and desired outputs." - Prompt engineering -

Term: Prompt engineering

"The Chinese chip industry has done an amazing job of catching up. I think they've probably exceeded most people's expectations in this." - Matt Sheehan - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Quote: Matt Sheehan

The era of speculative fervour, characterised by abstract debates over Artificial General Intelligence and the “existential” threats of the technology, has been largely superseded by a grounded, operational focus on pragmatic implementation.

The AI Signal from The World Economic Forum 2026 at Davos

"We assess that 40% of jobs globally are going to be impacted by AI over the next couple of years - either enhanced, eliminated, or transformed. In advanced economies, it’s 60%." - Kristalina Georgieva - Managing Director, IMF

Quote: Kristalina Georgieva – Managing Director, IMF

"Productivity growth has been slow over the last two decades. AI holds a promise to significantly lift it. We calculated that the impact on global growth could be between 0,1% and 0,8%. That is very significant. However, it is happening incredibly quickly." - Kristalina Georgieva - Managing Director, IMF

Quote: Kristalina Georgieva – Managing Director, IMF

"An acquihire (acquisition + hire) is a business strategy where a company buys another, smaller company primarily for its talented employees, rather than its products or technology, often to quickly gain skilled teams." - Acquihire -

Term: Acquihire

"While it is all very well to talk of ‘turning points’, one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect." - Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day

Quote: Kazuo Ishiguro

"A Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) custom-designed by Google to accelerate machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, especially those involving neural networks." - Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) -

Term: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

"This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it." - Ryan Dahl - Nodejs creator

Quote: Ryan Dahl

"It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can and the weak must suffer what they must." - Mark Carney - Prime Minister of Canada

Quote: Mark Carney

"It is time for companies and countries to take their signs down... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination." - Mark Carney - Prime Minister of Canada

Quote: Mark Carney – Prime Minister of Canada

$"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it; nostalgia is not a strategy. But we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, and more just." - Mark Carney - Prime Minister of Canada$

Quote: Mark Carney – Prime Minister of Canada

"An AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a technical expert embedded directly within a client's environment to implement, customise, and operationalize complex AI/ML products, acting as a bridge between core engineering and customer needs." - Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) -

Term: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful." - Andre Karpathy - AI guru

Quote: Andre Karpathy

Term: Davos

"A Language Processing Unit (LPU) is a specialized processor designed specifically to accelerate tasks related to natural language processing (NLP) and the inference of large language models (LLMs). It is a purpose-built chip engineered to handle the unique demands of language tasks." - Language Processing Unit (LPU) -

Term: Language Processing Unit (LPU)

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