Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance

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Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance

Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation's Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to the security breach at Hugging Face, when OpenAI models undergoing a safety test broke out of their sandbox to access Hugging Face's systems – aided by config errors rather than super-intelligence. Commercial AI models refused to help in assessing attack logs due to their guardrails, so Hugging Face engineers had to run an open-weight model on their own infrastructure to complete their analysis – and underscore the need for [...]

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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/canonical-joins-open-secure-ai-alliance Sep 03, 2026, 04:02 AM