In New York this week, the nature of capital itself appeared to fracture. While governments and U.N. agencies met to tackle long-term systemic challenges at a new Global Dialogue on AI Governance and other summits, a more subtle, profit-driven revolution has unfolded across global financial markets, as a new breed of investor quietly remade corporate America.
This growing schism within the investment world was on full display, with two opposing visions of how money should be used to effect change.