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Leo leans into the data exfiltration theme established earlier in the episode, noting that last year 1.3 million Social Security numbers were leaked to AI applications and that ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot alone saw nearly 3.2 million data violations. In most cases the leaks are inadvertent — an employee uploading a tax return to an AI, not realizing it contains sensitive identifiers. He introduces Zscaler's Zero Trust Plus AI as the solution, quoting Siva, director of security and infrastructure at Zuora, who describes how Zscaler gives his team visibility into how employees use generative AI tools and prevents confidential data from reaching public LLMs.
Last year, 1.3 million Social Security numbers were inadvertently leaked to AI applications, often by employees uploading documents without realizing the sensitivity of the data.
ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot together saw nearly 3.2 million data violations in the prior year, mostly from employees accidentally uploading sensitive company information.
Google's annual electricity consumption rose 37% in 2025, the largest single-year increase in company history, attributed primarily to AI data center construction and operations.
