IBM and Red Hat Launch $5B AI-Driven Open Source Security Initiative
IBM and Red Hat unveil Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative that uses frontier AI and a 20,000-strong engineering force to create a trusted enterprise clearinghouse for open source software, enabling rapid vulnerability identification, validation, and patches across the software supply chain with upstream disclosures and enterprise subscriptions. Initial deployments with major banks aim to strengthen OSS security across production environments.