A major industry coalition set up to defend critical open-source software against AI-enabled cyber threats is expected to operationalize its vulnerability disclosure and remediation platform in September, Infosecurity has learned. The initiative, called Akrites, was launched at the end of June 2026 by the Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and over 20 founding members. These include AI frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI; cloud and tech giants like Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Google, Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub, IBM and its subsidiary Red Hat and NVIDIA; cybersecurity firms like Chainguard, Endor Labs and Zscaler; and large enterprises, such as Citi, JPMorganChase, Ericsson and Vodafone. Each member of the coalition must donate between one and 10…