""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 develop to be transferable to all open source package repositories. As a result, this work has the potential to ultimately improve security across multiple open source ecosystems, starting with the Python ecosystem.""
Anthropic provided $1.5 million to the Python Software Foundation to support security work for CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI) and to sustain the foundation's core activities. The funding will advance the PSF security roadmap and enable work designed to protect millions of PyPI users from attempted supply-chain attacks. PSF expects the outputs to be transferable to other open source package repositories, potentially improving security across multiple ecosystems. Anthropic offers a Python SDK and uses the PyTorch framework, creating a clear interest in Python ecosystem security. Anthropic also announced expansion of its Labs and assignment of Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger to the Labs.
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