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title: "After Rejecting US Government's Aid Over DEI, Python Software Foundation Accepts $1.5 Million in Funding from Claude AI"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/after-rejecting-us-government-s-aid-over-dei-python-software-foundation-accepts-1-5-million-in-fun-spco0pxmv
source_url: https://itsfoss.com/news/anthropic-funding-to-python/
type: article
source: "It's Foss"
published: 2026-01-15T13:35:16.691Z
updated: 2026-02-28T04:08:12.894Z
tags: ["security", "python", "open-source", "supply-chain", "anthropic"]
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# After Rejecting US Government's Aid Over DEI, Python Software Foundation Accepts $1.5 Million in Funding from Claude AI

**[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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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