In TrendsStock MarketStocks To WatchGold and SilverNSE RebalancingITRVisa joins growing alarm over AI-powered risksVisa President of Technology Rajat Taneja said vulnerabilities exposed by AI models have underscored the need for autonomous cyber defences. The payments giant is also preparing for AI-driven attacks and quantum computing threats that could challenge current encryption standards.By Reuters September 29, 2026, 9:18:23 PM IST (Published)(Photo Credit : Reuters )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 for autonomous cyberattacks and future quantum-computing threats.Visa processes roughly a billion payments a day worth around $15 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 this year highlighted the scale of the 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.”It’s hard to predict how bad it could get, but we have seen the trailer,” Taneja…
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