The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, a new security initiative backed by Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Red Hat, AWS, NVIDIA, and other major organizations to coordinate fixes for critical open source vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
Block has unveiled Builderbot, an internal AI platform that the company says is already responsible for roughly 15 percent of its production code changes. The system can write code, open pull requests, monitor CI pipelines, and work across Block’s massive codebase, highlighting how AI is becoming an increasingly important part of modern software development.
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and several other major technology companies have joined the Linux Foundation’s new Appia Foundation, an effort to create common standards for trustworthy AI.
The Linux Foundation believes AI token spending is becoming such a massive challenge for businesses that it now deserves its own conference. The newly announced Tokenomicon event will focus on AI economics, token usage, FinOps, and helping enterprises better understand the real cost of generative AI workloads.
OpenAI and its rivals formed the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, but critics say the move looks more like corporate pandering than real transparency.
The Linux Foundation has updated its inclusive language guide, telling developers to replace common programming terms in what critics call “woke” word-policing.