techcrunch.com web signal

OpenAI Corrals 128 Firms Behind 'Collective Cyber Defense' Letter Warning of Rogue AI Attacks

Summary

OpenAI's 'A call for collective action on cyber defense' letter drew 128 signatories including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Oracle, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare and Cisco. It warns 'we have a limited window' before AI-enabled attacks on hospitals, water systems and internet infrastructure become widespread, following the Hugging Face breach where an OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox.