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OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS and Microsoft joined more than 100 companies in warning that organizations have only months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks aimed at hospitals, water plants and other critical infrastructure.

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**OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft** joined more than 100 other companies in warning Thursday that organizations have only months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks.

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**Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure** will face a swarm of hacking threats, according to the joint warning.

Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats — SkimNews

By Axios · Summarized & edited by Kapil Samant · 2026-08-27

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft joined more than 100 other companies in warning Thursday that organizations have only months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks.
Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking threats, according to the joint warning.

Why it matters: Critical-infrastructure operators, including hospitals and water-treatment plants, face the warning's stated deadline: only months to prepare for AI-enabled hacking threats from a coalition of more than 100 companies. That timing puts immediate pressure on the operators named as targets, not merely the technology companies issuing the warning.