{"id":85884,"date":"2026-01-24T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-did-davos-turn-into-a-tech-conference-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:43:48","slug":"how-did-davos-turn-into-a-tech-conference-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-did-davos-turn-into-a-tech-conference-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Davos turn into a tech conference? | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic Forum&#8217;s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took <!--more--> over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren&#8217;t holding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI bubbles popping, and a lot of talk about what comes next for the industry. <\/p>\n<p>Today on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O&#8217;Kane discuss which conversations took over Davos this week, the latest startup raises that caught our eye, and more. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Intro &amp; OpenAI Earbuds?<br \/>\n02:32 Humans&amp; Raises $480M Seed Round<br \/>\n05:32 The Revolving Door of AI Talent<br \/>\n09:16 Serve Robotics Acquires Diligent<br \/>\n12:13 Robots in Healthcare vs. Sidewalk Delivery<br \/>\n15:00 Tech Giants Take Over Davos<br \/>\n19:46 AI CEOs Compete for Customers &amp; Investment<br \/>\n24:15 The End of the Metaverse?<br \/>\n27:00 Meta&#8217;s Shift Away from First-Party VR Development<br \/>\n28:47 Outro<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic Forum&#8217;s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}