The Linux Foundation has announced $12.5 million in grant funding from Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI to strengthen open source software security. The funds will be managed by Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF, focusing on helping open source maintainers cope with an unprecedented surge of AI-generated vulnerability reports. The initiative aims to provide maintainer-centric AI security tooling, triage assistance, and sustainable security strategies to protect the broader open source ecosystem.
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