Big Tech backs $12.5M Linux Foundation push to reinforce and scale open source security systems

The Linux Foundation in San Francisco, California, secured $12.5M in grant funding from major tech contributors including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to strengthen open source security. Managed by Alpha-Omega and the Open Source Security Foundation, the collaborative grant initiative funds AI-driven tools, audits, and embedded expertise to help maintainers handle rising AI-generated vulnerabilities. The effort focuses on scalable, long-term infrastructure to improve resilience across hundreds of thousands of global open source projects.