OpenAI Pitches Utilities on $1B Daybreak Cybersecurity Defense

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been meeting with top U.S. power companies to pitch a novel solution to the rising threat of AI-driven cyberattacks: buying OpenAI's own cybersecurity services, according to a media report published on Thursday. The conversations came in the wake of an unprecedented cyberattack in which some 700 of OpenAI's own AI agents went rogue and autonomously hacked AI platform Hugging Face, which Nvidia has agreed to buy for $12.9B, over a seven-day period. To protect the electrical grid from these exact types of autonomous AI threats, Altman is urging utility executives to partner with Daybreak, OpenAI's $1B cybersecurity initiative aimed at patching vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure, the company told Politico. In July, OpenAI hosted chief information security officers from a dozen major utility companies at its San Francisco headquarters to discuss grid resilience, with additional energy security discussions beginning on July 20, and last week it met with utilities including Dominion Energy and Southern California Edison specifically to discuss deploying Daybreak. Altman continued these efforts on Wednesday, meeting with electric utility executives from companies like Duke Energy, Exelon, Southern Co. and NextEra Energy during the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado. However, OpenAI's head of global energy policy, John McCarrick, told Politico that unlike major banks, utility companies operate under strict regulatory limits regarding how much they can spend on new technology and pass those costs onto consumers through rate increases.

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