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What stands out

Amazon Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt lays out how artificial intelligence is changing the battlefield for cybersecurity, saying AI forces Amazon to rethink existing protections and build new safety tools at cloud scale. He highlights a "huge gap" between public intuition about frontier AI models and what those models can actually do, a blunt admission from a tech security leader who sees both attacker and defender using the same technology. The clip matters because it moves the AI debate from abstract policy talk to operational tradeoffs inside one of the worlds largest cloud and retail platforms.