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What happens when AI becomes your best employee, your biggest competitor, and your newest cybersecurity threat—all at once?

AI is no longer just changing how businesses operate. It's changing how hackers attack, how customers shop, and how companies compete. And while businesses are racing to adopt AI, the technology is moving faster than many organizations can adapt.

The solution isn't to slow down AI adoption. It's to get smarter about where you invest, how you protect your business, and how you prepare for an increasingly agent-driven economy.

In this episode of the Leveraging AI podcast, host Isar Meitis connects the dots between accelerating AI cybersecurity threats, the rise of agentic commerce, and the increasingly important question of AI's return on investment.

From AI agents finding ways around security restrictions to Google's changing search experience, Stripe's agentic payments infrastructure, and the growing gap between AI-powered shoppers and unprepared merchants, this episode explores what business leaders need to understand now.

In this session, you'll discover:

• The new cybersecurity reality: How AI agents are discovering vulnerabilities, bypassing security boundaries, and enabling cyberattacks at a speed and scale that traditional defenses struggle to match.
• Why businesses must rethink cybersecurity: The emerging risks highlighted by incidents involving AI agents, financial institutions, critical software infrastructure, and Binance.
• The practical steps leaders should take: Why software updates, cybersecurity risk assessments, and reviewing insurance coverage deserve immediate attention.
• How AI is rewriting the rules of search: Why Google's AI Overviews are changing website traffic, customer discovery, and the value of traditional SEO.
• The rise of AI-powered advertising: How autonomous agents are beginning to plan, buy, and optimize advertising campaigns.
• Why agentic commerce matters: How Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard are building payment infrastructure for a future where AI agents can transact on behalf of customers.
• The opportunity hiding in merchant unreadiness: Why businesses that prepare for AI-assisted purchasing could gain an advantage over slower competitors.
• The latest developments from AI leaders: News involving Anthropic's IPO filing and Google's emerging model capabilities.

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