After Rejecting US Government's Aid Over DEI, Python Software Foundation Accepts $1.5 Million in Funding from Claude AI
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Anthropic will invest $1.5 million over two years in the Python Software Foundation to enhance security for Python and PyPI. The funding will support automated package review tools, a malware detection dataset, and day-to-day operations. This comes after PSF rejected equivalent government funding from the National Science Foundation due to anti-DEI requirements. The investment aims to protect PyPI from supply chain attacks by moving from reactive to proactive security measures, with tools that could benefit other open source package repositories.
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