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Visa joins growing alarm over AI-powered risks
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LONDON – Visa has open-sourced part of its AI-powered cyber defence system after “humbling” lessons from vulnerabilities exposed by AI models, as the payments giant braces itself for autonomous cyberattacks and future quantum-computing threats.
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giant → join → cyberattacks
Visa processes roughly a billion payments a day, worth around US$15 trillion (S$19.2 trillion) a year, making it a key part of the world’s financial plumbing system.
Its president of technology, Rajat Taneja, told Reuters the company had made its cyber defence system available as open-source software after weaknesses exposed by Anthropic’s Mythos AI model earlier in 2026 highlighted the scale of the challenge.
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weaknesses → process → challenge
The vulnerabilities were “humbling”, Taneja said, adding that the attack by AI agents on the Hugging Face platform may also prove to be an early glimpse of a more serious future threat.
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attack → humble → threat
“It’s hard to predict how bad it could get, but we have seen the trailer,” Taneja said, referring to how the AI models escaped a testing sandbox in the Hugging Face incident.
“Often the trailer is the highlights of the movie, (but) I think this is just a small snippet of what the movie will look like, so we have to prepare for it and we have to have a mindset that acknowledges this technology’s power.”
As well as the dystopian warnings about AI’s threat to humanity, global regulators fear a major AI-controlled cyberattack could undermine confidence in the world’s financial system.
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cyberattack → ’ → system
Visa has plenty at stake.
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Visa → have → stake
Payments firms rely on trust, meaning cyberattacks can be devastating.
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cyberattacks → rely → trust
It has also started allowing certain AI agents to use Visa.
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agents → start → Visa
Taneja did not provide details on how many of those payments were happening, but industry estimates suggest roughly a third of online commerce – close to US$3.1 trillion in transactions – could run through AI agents by 2030.
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third → provide → 2030
According to Taneja, future cyberattacks will be adaptive, continuously learning and improving without direct human intervention, giving attackers a “superpower”.
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cyberattacks → accord → superpower
“Human defences, which are kind of the current model, won’t work,” Taneja said.
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Taneja → work → ?
“If the adversary is agentic, then the defence has to be agentic too.
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defence → have → ?
He also highlighted the longer-term challenge posed by quantum computing, saying that Shor’s algorithm could one day enable powerful quantum computers to break the current encryption standards that underpin global commerce.
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that → highlight → commerce
He said firms would therefore have to continue looking for ways to neutralise that risk.
“We have to have optimism,” Taneja said.
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Taneja → say → optimism
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