Major tech companies call for defensive surge to defeat AI-driven hacks

Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon are calling for a society-wide defensive surge to defeat what they describe as an impending wave of hacks driven by artificial intelligence.

In a joint letter issued Thursday, the companies – along with more ‌than 100 ⁠others including ⁠Broadcom, Capital One, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, General Motors, IBM, Mastercard, Oracle, Robinhood, Shopify ​and Visa – said there was a limited amount of time “to make our ​digital world much more secure” ahead of the AI threat.