By Christine Ji and Hannah Pedone
As AI agents break free, tech giants are racing to turn cybersecurity into a core feature of their businesses
Major software and infrastructure providers are embedding security features directly into their enterprise platforms to protect from rogue AI-agent threats.
A wave of artificial-intelligence adoption has come with an undesirable side effect: An explosion of cyberthreats.
AI agents can churn out code with security flaws or be weaponized by bad actors to hack into computer systems. They might even act out on their own - as was the case earlier this month, when OpenAI reported that one of its AI agents escaped its internal testing environment and carried out a cyberattack against the AI platform Hugging Face.
