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Brad Smith is Microsoft's Vice Chair and President, overseeing the company's legal, policy, and government affairs, including AI governance initiatives.
DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis told a Dublin summit that AI agent hacks are early warning shots and could turn major within a couple of years. He wants agents sandbox-tested before release, so the first bill lands on the companies shipping them.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith told the BBC that milk and washing machines face more safety rules than AI. The BBC says his call for a legal duty to tell breach victims, and for outside sign-off, puts him at odds with Trump, who says the sector should regulate itself.
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UAE vice president Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed met Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday, their first high-level meeting since January's split over Yemen. Whether the thaw outlasts a US-Iran deal on Hormuz will show which threat is holding it together.
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Anthropic, Google and OpenAI aim to launch a self-regulating AI standards body by early next year, according to The Information. Its commitments would be voluntary, so its commercial weight would come from deciding which auditors may test the labs' own models.
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His reversal from "manageable" to "insane" hands legislatures a fiscal instrument. But a levy on use is paid by adopters, and the only measured job damage so far sits at entry level.
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Microsoft is moving communications out of marketing and under Brad Smith, with an interim chief who stays only through December. Customers will hear more from staff accounts and will need to sort an engineer's explanation from a company commitment.
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Five executives who profit from AI spent the past few days asking for a slowdown. The Verge's timeline puts the same request in Musk's mouth in 2014 and Microsoft's in 2019, with few binding results either time.
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The American Federation of Teachers got Microsoft to bar training on student data, ban companion features built for emotional attachment and accept outside audits. District buyers now have a written term sheet to put to every other vendor.
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COPPA and FERPA gave the teachers' unions nothing. A clause inside a Microsoft contract gives them something different: a termination right and damages. The unions are now waiting on OpenAI and Anthropic to match it.
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A New York Times investigation traces Microsoft, Google and OpenAI's hold on US schools to professional development rather than procurement. The pharma comparison is the load-bearing part.
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The "AI for nuclear" toolkit aims to cut permitting time by over 90%. The unresolved question is whether any regulator will accept simulation output as licensing evidence.
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