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Todd McKinnon, Okta’s CEO, says the Blueprint Alliance, which includes Amazon and Google, will work across companies to harden AI security and set shared safeguards. He frames the group as industry actors solving practical safety questions, what agents can access, what they can purchase, and how to prevent misuse, rather than waiting for regulators. That matters because this is an industry-coordination attempt among the very firms building widely used AI systems, and those operational choices will shape how quickly features spread and how trust in AI products evolves.