{"id":224717,"date":"2026-03-17T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:00:11","slug":"linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/channellife.com.au\/story\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security\">Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/channellife.com.au\/story\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security\">https:\/\/channellife.com.au\/story\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 15:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"channellife.com.au\">channellife.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Linux Foundation has secured USD $12.5 million in grant funding from Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and OpenAI to support open source software security work.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha-Omega and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) will manage the funding. Both are security initiatives within the Linux Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid growing concern across the software industry about the number of vulnerabilities found in widely used open source components. It also highlights the strain on volunteer maintainers and small teams responsible for disclosures, prioritisation and patch development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AI-driven volume<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Linux Foundation tied the new funding to changes in vulnerability discovery, noting that advances in AI have increased the speed and scale at which issues are found in open source codebases.<\/p>\n<p>Maintainers are receiving more security reports, including findings generated by automated systems. Many projects lack the staffing and processes to review large volumes of submissions and separate genuine issues from false positives. This can delay remediation of critical flaws and contribute to maintainer burnout.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Winser, co-founder of Alpha-Omega, described the programme as a continuation of earlier work. Alpha-Omega has funded security audits and placed security experts into open source projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alpha-Omega was built on the idea that open source security should be both normal and achievable. By funding audits and embedding security experts directly into the ecosystem, we&#8217;ve proven that targeted investment works,&#8221; Winser said. &#8220;Now, we&#8217;re scaling that expertise. We are excited to bring maintainer-centric AI security assistance to the hundreds of thousands of projects that power our world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maintainer pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greg Kroah-Hartman of the Linux kernel project said funding alone would not address the workload created by automated tooling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grant funding alone is not going to help solve the problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/channellife.com.au\/story\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security https:\/\/channellife.com.au\/story\/linux-foundation-secures-usd-12-5m-for-ai-security Publish Date: 2026-03-17 15:15:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/channellife.com.au\/uploads\/story\/2026\/03\/18\/compatible_ai_security_shield_open_source_code_blocks_guarding_neural_brain.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,57,27],"class_list":["post-224717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224719,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224717\/revisions\/224719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}