Satya Nadella’s ‘emergency brake’ and the race to secure AI agents | Disrupt 2026
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TechCrunch's Equity podcast team took over the Builders Stage Tuesday morning to tackle a growing challenge for the AI industry: What happens when AI agents go off-script, and who’s responsible for keeping them in check? Recent incidents, from Anthropic pulling internal evaluations off the live internet after agents misbehaved to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calling for an “emergency brake” on AI models, have brought agent security into focus. The Equity team unpacked whether the problem calls for better engineering, new regulation, or both, and why startups are raising millions to secure AI agents. #TechCrunchDisrupt2026 Follow us across... https://www.youtube.com/techcrunch https://x.com/techcrunch https://bsky.app/profile/techcrunch.com https://instagram.com/techcrunch https://www.facebook.com/techcrunch/ https://www.tiktok.com/@techcrunch Read more: https://techcrunch.com/