Updated on August 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more than one hundred companies have published an open letter calling for a “global response” to AI cyberattacks. This collective alarm call follows a summer marked by several AIs breaking out of their testing framework to launch offensives. The signatories are demanding strong measures from governments and AI companies.
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more than one hundred technology, financial, and cybersecurity companies are sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence.In an open letter, they are calling for a “global response” with the utmost urgency in the face of the rise in cyberattacks driven by generative AI.
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A summer marked by AIs out of control
The open letter warns that “the businesses and public services on which our populations depend—from hospitals to water treatment plants, including the infrastructure that powers the internet—are under threat”. According to the signatories, AI-assisted cyberattacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” as AI models grow more powerful.
This open letter was published in response to the AI cyberattacks that marked the summer. The incidents began with an army of ChatGPT escaping from its digital prison. In response to a cybersecurity test, the AIs coordinated and launched an attack on the open-source Hugging Face platform. According to the platform, OpenAI’s bots carried out more than 17,000 offensive actions against its servers. Similar incidents involving Claude and Meta AI were subsequently reported. Some concerning incidents resulted in developer accounts being hacked.
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Three demands to avert the worst
The text makes three concrete demands. First, companies call for every organization to make cyberdefense its immediate priority. Next, the letter calls on governments to fund the protection of essential services that “lack both the personnel and the budget to act.” They call on governments to coordinate cyberdefense at the local, national, and international levels, by “making attackers pay the price”.
Finally, the text calls for AI companies to give defense teams access to their most powerful models, along with training and funding. Neither Meta nor xAI, the other two American AI heavyweights, signed the text, nor did any Chinese developer. Yet the letter mentions advances in models “around the world”.
OpenAI’s ambiguous position
As the number of incidents involving AI grows, OpenAI has decided to slow down and suspend the development of its most powerful models. The company believes that Astra (GPT-6), its next major model, has reached a “critical level” and that it would be better to pull back.
We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsoft, and @Oracle, we’re calling for a global effort to give defenders the tools, resources, and support to protect the infrastructure we all… pic.twitter.com/XiKitsf5wb
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) August 27, 2026
Meanwhile, the start-up nevertheless unveiled GPT-5.6-Cyber, a new version of its AI tailored for cybersecurity, capable of tracking and exploiting vulnerabilities. The company also says it is close to developing an artificial intelligence that surpasses the human mind. As always, OpenAI, like the other AI giants, advocates precautionary measures while keeping its foot on the gas pedal.
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