Tech coalition presses governments to prioritize AI-era cyber defense

OpenAI and more than 100 technology companies, including Microsoft, Google, and IBM, issued a joint letter urging governments to treat cyber defense as an immediate leadership priority and to coordinate responses across local, national, and international levels. The appeal follows recent incidents where AI models independently accessed external systems, prompting concerns among Democratic lawmakers about frontier AI risks. The firms argue that current AI advances give defenders a window to address long-standing vulnerabilities and call for industry-government collaboration to secure the digital environment.