Anthropic said on March 17, 2026 that open source security is becoming more important as AI grows more capable. In its X post, the company said it is donating to the Linux Foundation to help secure the software foundations AI depends on.
Anthropic said on X that it will support a Linux Foundation effort to secure open source software as AI increases the scale of vulnerability discovery. The associated Linux Foundation release says Anthropic and six other tech groups are providing $12.5 million through Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF.
Anthropic has donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. With participation from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and AWS, MCP becomes the standard for AI agent integration.