Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has an extra $1.5 million heading its way, after AI upstart Anthropic entered into a partnership aimed at improving security in the Python ecosystem.

“This investment will enable the PSF to make crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI) benefiting all users, and it will also sustain the foundation’s core work supporting the Python language, ecosystem, and global community,” wrote the organization’s deputy executive director Loren Crary. CPython is the reference implementation of the Python language and PyPI is a repository of software for Python devs.

“Anthropic’s funds will enable the PSF to make progress on our security roadmap, including work designed to protect millions of PyPI users from attempted supply-chain attacks,” she added.

Crary thinks this effort may benefit other FOSS projects.

“One of the advantages of this project is that we expect the outputs we ...