The generative AI boom has caused a lot of hardware pricing problems, and also a fair amount of security issues - which Akrites hopes to help with.
What is it? A number of organisations including The Linux Foundation, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft and GitHub, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RapidFort, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone and Zscaler - have all joined together as a coordinated effort in the fight back against AI-powered threats.
Their mission? Quite a simple one. They're aiming to coordinate fixes for vulnerabilities in many critical widely used open source projects before those vulnerabilities can be exploited.
Thanks to all the AI assistants like Google Gemini, Chat GPT, Anthropic Claude and others - finding security issues is in a few ways easier than ever since they can scan over code quite quickly - something that's problematic for open source if the tools are used correctly (and not just creating spammy pull requests to various projects…).
See more in the official news post. Akrites does seem like a good idea. Rather than all these companies working alone on security problems, working together makes the most sense since a lot of them no doubt rely on a lot of the same software behind the scenes.
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