Who said what at the World Economic Forum (WEF)

“Russia is now dependent on China,” she said during an address at WEF, adding that Russia is failing on its strategic goals.

“It is first and foremost a military failure,” she said, noting that Ukraine had thus far retained its “freedom and independence” in its almost two-year war with Moscow.

“There’s a cryptocurrency which might actually do something,” Dimon said of smart chain-enriched blockchains. “And then there’s one which does nothing.“

When asked what he made of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s change of heart on bitcoin — after the world’s largest asset manager filed an application for a bitcoin ETF — Dimon said, “I don’t care. So just please stop talking about this s***.”

Dimon also spoke about Ukraine’s war with Russia following a meeting with its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We have to teach the American public that this is about freedom and democracy for the free world, and that’s where the battle is being fought,” he said. “This is ‘America first’.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin “embodies war,” Zelenskyy said, adding: “he will not change.”

During his address, he also decried the failure of Western allies to sanction Russia’s nuclear industry. “It’s a clear weakness of the West that Russia’s nuclear industry is still not under global sanctions, even though Putin is the only terrorist in the world who took a nuclear power plant hostage,” Zelenskyy said.

“Today, I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger,” Milei said Wednesday, according to a translation.

“And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and thereby to poverty,” he added.

Speaking at a CNBC-moderated panel at WEF, Friedman said Tuesday that while “there are a lot of signals that would say that there should be rate [cuts] as we go through the year, the question is when they would start. And if I were the Fed, I would be a little concerned about starting too early.”

She explained that while inflation was heading in the “right direction of travel,” the Fed would also expect this to moderate, making it harder to bring rates down.

He said AGI could be developed in the “reasonably close-ish future,” speaking at a private gathering at the Bloomberg House in Davos, Switzerland.

Altman also described being fired from OpenAI as “wild,” saying he felt “super confused” and was “super caught off guard.”

Concerns over AI safety and OpenAI’s role in protecting were at the center of Altman’s brief ouster from the company.

Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, she said consumption, trade and inflation began to normalize last year, after a post-pandemic period that she described as “strange, extraordinary and difficult to analyze.”

The pandemic reduced consumer spending meaning people had excess savings, while global trade was also disrupted. In October 2022, euro zone inflation reached 10.6% but dropped off in 2023, rising again to 2.9% in December.

While these trends represent a “normalization,” Lagarde added that “it is not normality that we are heading to.”

“2024 will be a pivotal year for Europeans. We must prove that we can be more visible, make more efforts, whatever happens in the United States,” he said, according to a translation.

Macron also expressed concerns about what the election could mean for U.S.-China tensions.

“The great risk for Europeans is that they would end up with the wrong agenda,” he said.

“So do I believe there is a potential for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Trump to agree on something behind Ukraine’s back if Trump becomes president? I don’t,” he said.

Kuleba also said the atmosphere in Davos was positive. “People are looking for solutions instead of endlessly discussing problems,” he said.

Michelle Yeoh, an actress, producer and United Nations Development Programme ambassador won a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum — the prizes are given to artists who are thought of as role models, according to WEF.

Asked by CNBC’s Tania Bryer what the award meant to her she said: “It’s a way that we can … have the world come together in such dire times and with hope.”

“I think that not only the [political] fragmentation, but the advance of the far-right, it is something … I would say [it is] the biggest concern for Western democracies,” he said Wednesday.

Ahead of European Parliament elections this year, Sanchez said that having more progressive or center seats than far-right seats would be “easier for all of us, the Commission, the Council and of course, the European Parliament.”

“Scientific and technological fruits should benefit humanity as a whole, instead of becoming a means to restrict or contain the development of other countries,” he said, according to an official translation of his remarks.

Li did not name countries in his speech, but Beijing has repeatedly asked Washington to remove restrictions on Chinese companies that prevent them from buying advanced technology from U.S. firms.

Li said the Chinese economy grew by around 5.2% in 2023. “In promoting economic development, we did not resort to massive stimulus. We did not seek short-term growth while accumulating long-term risks,” he added.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said his country wants to “stop the war in Gaza.”

“The U.S. should not, Mr. [Joe] Biden should not tie their destiny to the fate of Netanyahu,” Amir-Abdollahian told CNBC Tuesday.

Discussing the bank’s acquisition of Credit Suisse in March 2023, Ermotti said that clients and employees “were quite shocked in the first round, and now they embrace the new model.”

Ermotti described the period since he took over as “pretty good.”

“This is a huge moment for AI. AI took a huge leap forward in the last year or two years,” Benioff said on a World Economic Forum panel Thursday.

“We don’t want something to go really wrong,” he said.

“If we’re looking at the politics, the geopolitics, I don’t think that those risks are priced in, because it’s [a] difficult thing to play,” he told CNBC.

When asked whether China or U.S. politics presented a greater risk to markets, Dalio said it was important that “we work well together.”

“Our greatest risk is not China. Our greatest risk is ourselves,” he added.

The former governor of the Bank of England said that investment in clean energy grew by 50% in 2023 to $1.8 trillion, up from $1.2 trillion in 2022.

“There’s a huge surge in investment in clean energy, in EVs, [electric vehicles] in the whole supply chain,” Carney said on Thursday.