News Summary

• The former UK deputy prime minister, who later ran global affairs at Meta, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
• He suggested that the doomsday warnings suit the firms issuing them, and that they risk stalling political debate about the technology.
• Clegg now has interests of his own in the sector.
• According to the Guardian, he owns more than 917,000 shares in UK data centre firm Nscale and co-founded AI startup AMI Labs.