India, July 1 -- As businesses across India and the globe rush to embed AI into cloud infrastructure, a new report from Tenable highlights an unsettling trend: AI-powered cloud workloads are significantly more vulnerable than their traditional counterparts.

The 2025 Cloud Security Risk Report reveals that 70 per cent of AI workloads across AWS, Azure and GCP contain at least one unpatched critical vulnerability, compared to 50 per cent in non-AI workloads. These findings suggest that the pace of AI adoption may be outstripping security practices, especially in high-value, data-rich environments.

AI workloads typically involve vast datasets, model training environments and experimentation, making them attractive to attackers seeking deep...