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AWS Pushes Back on AI Outage Claims

Plus: • Sanders Warns: Slow Down the AI Rush

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Jafar Najafov
February 21, 2026 • Read this in 6 minutes

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Today we are going to see, Stanford hosted a warning about AI this week. Also AWS defended itself against claims its AI caused outages. Amazon Threat Intelligence exposed a hacker scaling attacks with AI. Three stories. One pattern. AI isn’t creeping into the system. It’s accelerating through it.

In today’s post:

  • AI just scaled cybercrime

  • AI is accelerating faster than policymakers can react

  • Amazon says it wasn’t the AI

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CYBER CRIME

An unsophisticated hacker breached 600 devices using AI

Amazon Threat Intelligence exposed a new AI-driven campaign. Over 600 FortiGate devices were compromised globally.

  • The actor exploited exposed management ports and weak passwords.

  • No new vulnerabilities were required to break in.

  • AI generated attack plans, scripts, and workflows.

  • Stolen configurations exposed VPN and admin credentials.

  • Active Directory databases were fully extracted in cases.

  • Backup servers were targeted before potential ransomware.

  • When defenses hardened, the actor simply moved on.

This is not about elite hackers. It is about leverage.AI turned average skills into global scale. The barrier to entry just collapsed. Security basics stopped most advanced attempts. Weak fundamentals enabled everything else. The future threat is not smarter attackers. It is faster, cheaper ones.

RESEARCH

Sanders says Congress isn’t ready for AI

Image Credits: The Guardian

Stanford University became a warning stage this week. Bernie Sanders said Congress is unprepared for AI’s scale.

Here’s everything you need to know:

  • Sanders called AI the most dangerous modern moment.

  • He warned lawmakers do not grasp its speed.

  • He pushed for a moratorium on data center expansion.

  • Ro Khanna rejected a pause but urged strict guardrails.

  • Industry leaders predict automation across millions of jobs.

  • Polls show Americans fear job losses ahead.

  • The core fight is over who captures the wealth.

Every revolution sounds dramatic at first. Then it becomes normal. AI is not scary because it exists. It is scary because it compounds. When technology moves faster than institutions, power pools at the top. The real debate is not progress versus fear. It is distribution versus concentration. If AI creates massive productivity, who benefits first? That answer will define the next decade.

BREAKTHROUGH

When AI touches production, blame gets complicated

Amazon Web Services pushed back this week. The Financial Times blamed AI coding tools for outages.

  • The FT reported two AWS outages tied to AI tools.

  • Amazon acknowledged one disruption, denied the second.

  • The confirmed incident hit Cost Explorer in one region.

  • Amazon says it was misconfigured access, not AI failure.

  • Engineers allegedly let an agent delete and rebuild systems.

  • AWS called the impact limited and non-customer facing.

  • New safeguards now require peer review for production access.

This is not about one outage. It is about accountability in autonomous systems. If AI acts, who owns the action? “User error” becomes blurry with agentic tools. Companies sell automation as leverage. But leverage without friction creates fragility. The real risk is not broken systems. It is unclear responsibility when they break..

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