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The New Apex Predator: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Adversaries Armed With AI Agents

Adversaries are already running AI agents, and the fastest attacks now play out in seconds. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with CrowdStrike president and CEO George Kurtz on what AI-equipped attackers mean for enterprise security. George explains how agents are flattening the adversary pyramid by putting advanced tradecraft in the hands of low-skill…

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  1. What Replaced the Nation State in Hacking? at 2:55

    George Kurtz says ablated models with no real guard rails flattened the pyramid of pain, and the new apex predator is the agent state, not the nation state. Full answer

  2. Why Did Hugging Face Use Open Weight Models? at 11:57

    George Kurtz says Hugging Face turned to open weight models because the frontier models refused to say whether the agent behavior was real. Full answer

  3. Why Does CrowdStrike Train Its Own Model? at 20:35

    George Kurtz says CrowdStrike trains its own security models for three separate reasons: the models are significantly cheaper than frontier models… Full answer

  4. Will AI Chips Get Faster and Cheaper? at 33:00

    George Kurtz guarantees that chips will get faster and cheaper, though he does not know the exact trajectory. Open weight models, certainly the U.S. Full answer

  5. Why Do Breaches Happen With No Vulnerabilities? at 36:37

    George Kurtz says software with zero vulnerabilities will still be breached, because a lot of the activity is people logging in rather than breaking in, and… Full answer

  6. Will AI Create More Jobs? at 43:30

    George Kurtz firmly believes each major technology shift over the last couple hundred years created more opportunity and more jobs, and AI will do the same. Full answer

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