Tech Giants Invest $12.5 Million In Open Source Security
Security Week, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI fund the Linux Foundation's long-term security initiatives focused on open source software.
The Linux Foundation on Tuesday announced receiving $12.5 million in grant funding from major tech companies to advance open source security.
The funds came from Anthropic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI, and will be managed by the foundation's security initiatives Alpha-Omega and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).
According to the Linux Foundation, the funding will support the development of long-term security solutions for the entire open source ecosystem.
The grants, it says, came at a time when AI is fueling an uptick in the speed and scale of vulnerability discovery in open source.