{"slug": "linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai", "title": "Linux Foundation and leading orgs launch Akrites to protect open source from AI threats", "summary": "The Linux Foundation, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and other industry leaders launched Akrites, a coordinated effort to defend critical open-source software against AI-enabled cyber threats. The initiative aims to fix vulnerabilities in widely used open-source projects before they can be exploited by AI-powered attacks.", "body_md": "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.\n\nWhat 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.\n\nTheir 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.\n\nThanks 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…).\n\nSee more in the [official news post](https://akrites.org/linux-foundation-and-industry-leaders-launch-akrites-to-defend-critical-open-source-software-against-ai-enabled-cyber-threats/).\n\nAkrites 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.\n\n🌐**External Sources:**\n\n[akrites.org](https://akrites.org/linux-foundation-and-industry-leaders-launch-akrites-to-defend-critical-open-source-software-against-ai-enabled-cyber-threats/)\n\n**Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:**\n\n**All posts need to**\n\n[follow our rules](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=rules). Please hit the Report Flag icon on any post that breaks the rules or contains illegal / harmful content. Readers can also[email us](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/email-us/)for any issues or concerns.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai-threats/", "published_at": "2026-06-26 10:18:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 10:39:23.771042+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Linux Foundation", "Amazon Web Services", "Anthropic", "Google", "Microsoft", "OpenAI", "NVIDIA", "Red Hat"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-foundation-and-leading-orgs-launch-akrites-to-protect-open-source-from-ai.jsonld"}}