OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority

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More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act makes much of that mandatory from 11 September.

More than 100 organisations have signed a letter telling everyone to take cyber defence seriously. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft are among them, calling for it to become an immediate leadership priority and for companies to fix the weaknesses sitting in their own software.

The other asks are more specific. Security firms should defend against AI-enabled attacks, governments should coordinate with each other and with industry, and leading AI companies should give access, money and training to whoever defends critical infrastructure.

The framing is optimistic. “Today’s AI advances are already giving defenders new ways to fix weaknesses that have accumulated for...

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