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Poorest nations missing out on AI and clean energy investment boom, Guterres warns in Doha

The world’s poorest economies are receiving only a fraction of the investment pouring into artificial intelligence, semiconductors, clean energy and critical minerals, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Sunday, urging governments and investors to close a divide that risks shutting much of the Global South out of the next wave of growth. In a message to the 9th World Investment Forum, which opened in Doha, Guterres said those sectors, along with other advanced technologies, now accou