Observed Signal · Sep 21, 2026 · Market Signal · Source: Akamai · Impact: 3.5/5
What AI Can, Cannot, and Should Not Do
Akamai CEO Tom Leighton weighs in on the need for checks and balances and security to keep the use of AI under human control.
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Blumenthal pushes AI review, warns of losing control
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called for an 'objective review' of AI products before release, citing the risk of losing control over autonomous systems. He emphasized the need for targeted regulation that balances safety with U.S. competitiveness and drew parallels to FDA pharmaceutical oversight. Blumenthal's comments come amid ongoing debates with tech leaders like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman, who have expressed concerns, while President Trump dismisses such fears as a hoax. Blumenthal also warned of consequences similar to social media's unregulated spread of harmful content.
Google Cloud COO Warns on Real-Time AI Security Risks
In a TechCrunch interview, Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza urged companies to treat security as integral to AI strategy, warning against 'shadow AI' and advocating platform-level governance, auditability and consistent cross-cloud security postures. The piece notes a shifting threat landscape — the average time between an initial breach and the next attack stage falling from eight hours to 22 seconds — and highlights practical risks observed in the field: unauthorized API calls to Google’s Gemini models that produced five-figure developer bills, Google’s automatic billing tier upgrades, and research from security firm Aikido showing deleted API keys can remain usable for up to 23 minutes. De Souza argued for machine-speed, agentic defenses overseen by humans and elevated to board-level concern, while industry leaders warn of a shortage of qualified AI-security personnel.
Anthropic CEO: AI backlash is a crisis of trust
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed back against claims that his warnings about AI risks have primarily driven a public backlash, saying the issue is fundamentally a crisis of trust in companies, governments and the tech industry. Responding to investor Gavin Baker’s criticism that Amodei's messaging has been overly negative, Amodei said his writing balances risks and benefits and cited his essay “Machines of Loving Grace.” He reiterated Anthropic's support for carefully designed regulation — including proposals intended to slow frontier AI companies while advantaging smaller competitors — and argued that open model weights are insufficient to prevent concentration of power without the right rules.
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