Several AI applications can be seen on your smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek, and more.
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OpenAI, human, microsoft, advanced micro device On Thursday, more than 100 other companies and organizations signed a letter calling on businesses and policymakers to “act decisively” to prioritize cybersecurity and strengthen defenses in the age of artificial intelligence.
“We have limited time to strengthen our cyber defenses,” the letter said.
The group of 116 organizations called on all organizations to “raise the bar” on defensive tools, upgrade their security systems and leverage a combination of lower cost and cutting-edge models.
The letter also calls for a concerted government effort to fund cyber defenses and improve access to under-resourced critical infrastructure, such as hospitals and water treatment plants, which are the main targets of attacks.
The group of signatories includes cybersecurity leaders, financial services companies, semiconductor companies, and cloud providers.
Sophisticated AI models that can orchestrate agent attacks in minutes have transformed the cyber industry in recent months, reinforcing the need for better security tools to combat growing AI threats.
Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, arrives at the inaugural AI Insights Forum on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at the Russell Building on Parliament Hill.
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Hugging Face, an open source AI platform that signed this letter, was recently at the center of a breach orchestrated by rogue OpenAI agents. The hack has shaken up the cyber and technology sector and raised questions about accelerating AI development.
Against this backdrop, the value of cybersecurity companies is soaring as companies recognize the need for security and manage to shake off early concerns of disruption that rocked the broader software sector this year.
Shares of cyber leaders CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks have more than doubled in the last year, with both Okta and CrowdStrike posting double-digit gains on Thursday as the companies posted strong earnings on the strength of AI security.
