AI Tools: New Cyber Threat for Businesses

0:00On April 18th, UK Technology Secretary Liz Kindle is sounding the alarm for businesses everywhere. AI tools could unleash massive cyberattacks with their hacking powers doubling every four months. She's telling leaders from small shops to big corporations that no one's safe, not just governments or tech giants. This warning spotlights, mythos, a beast of an AI from Silicon Valley's Anthropic. It's so sharp at spotting flaws in decades-old code and cracking them open that the company won't release it to the public. Experts say it beats most humans at this game. Only 12 firms, including Apple and Microsoft, got early access to poke holes in it and patch up weaknesses. Meanwhile, bad actors or nations like China could grab similar tech, flipping the script from rare expert hackers to everyday AI threats. Last year, surveys showed 612,000 UK businesses and 61,000 charities hit by breaches. Jaguar lamb rovers hack costs 1.9 billion pounds.

1:01The price is in history, crippling them, and 5,000 suppliers for months. Marx and Spencer lost around 136 million pounds from disrupted orders, while the co-ops saw over 6 million customers' data, swiped, racking up more than 200 million pounds in damage. Kendall's clear, businesses must beef up now, or pay the price as AI evolves fast.