Policy & safety stories

Yesterday

Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

Key points
  • Feldman says AI leaders should also highlight benefits, such as reducing cancer deaths, even while acknowledging risks.
  • He argues powerful technologies must be regulated reasonably, not abandoned, and says the data center industry failed to engage local communities.
  • Feldman named Brazil, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mexico and Sweden as markets encouraging data center construction.
  • Cerebras customers reportedly include OpenAI, Block, Figma, GSK and Lovable, giving Feldman a stake in AI adoption.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams writing about AI risk should note the industry pushback on doom framing and the data center community-relations criticism, which may shape messaging.

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This week

Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation

Key points
  • Smith, on a BBC podcast, called for urgent global AI rules and said the UK, not the US or EU, is best placed to lead.
  • Britain's AI Security Institute gets access to major US frontier models before deployment, but Trump reportedly pressed labs to withhold models from UK testers.
  • AISI confirmed it can still access and test the latest models, despite the pushback.
  • Smith called the White House voluntary safety pledge a good step but said it cannot stop irresponsible companies from ignoring it.

Why it matters for marketers: Marketers using AI tools should watch for UK-led testing and possible new rules on breach alerts, outside evaluations and kill switches.

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