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ICYMI: open source investment in grid operations yields 2-5x higher net value than current operational costs. The LF Research and LF Energy report breaks down the benefit-cost framework for utility operators. Read more: https://bit.ly/4dB8d9n

The October Linux Foundation newsletter is here. AWS became a Platinum Member, BUILD Foundation and OpenGrid launched, OSERA is operating, and LF Research published nine reports. Plus KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA and 40% off cybersecurity training. https://bit.ly/3UdNan6

Some industrial systems run for 20 to 40 years and need security patches the whole time. CIP maintains its kernels for 10 years, with members sharing the engineering work. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4yEaW9M

LF Research: GenAI cuts open source coding time in half, but 25% of incoming pull requests are estimated to be low-quality AI slop. With maintainer workloads rising, open source projects need stronger AI governance, transparent attribution and clear contribution guidelines. https://bit.ly/4dUejC9

94% of European organisations say digital sovereignty is strategically important. The 2026 State of Open Source in Europe report finds open source returns 4.1x benefit-to-cost, rising to 4.6x with mature governance. Read the report: https://bit.ly/4rWenXW

17+ hours a week lost to maintenance and bad code. Learn more how teams are fixing their developer experience. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4xPzCf8

Generative AI is reshaping open source development, and the trade-offs are starting to show. LF Research surveyed 234 OSS contributors and maintainers: 1 in 4 incoming PRs are now "AI slop," and only 1 in 3 projects have a formal AI policy. Read the full report to learn more.

ICYMI: Generative AI helps people create. Agentic AI gets work done, executing tasks and coordinating workflows. LF Research report draws on 25 industry leaders: autonomy needs guardrails, and outcomes matter more than agent count. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/3VmOJiD

🎉 35 years of Linux! From a hobby project to powering 4B Android devices, 200M+ servers & all 500 of the world’s top supercomputers. 🐧 In her latest blog, Hilary Carter, SVP of LF Research shares insights 35 years of Linux and the open source ecosystem https://bit.ly/3TOu86u

Only 39 of 100+ studies on developer experience actually connect it to business outcomes. Ana Jiménez Santamaría breaks down what managers can learn from the new DevEx report, including how the framework applies to agent-assisted development. Read more: https://bit.ly/4dCD31C

Hilary Carter shares some key findings from the 2026 State of OSPOs report: 57% have stayed in the same org home for 2-3 years, APAC is leading the next wave of growth, and OSPOs are focused on licensing, security, and data privacy risk in AI.. Read more: https://bit.ly/4y4Vh33

AI agent capability is no longer the gate. Organizational readiness is. Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes about LF Research's new report on enterprises transitioning to the agentic era, and why governance must shift from retrospective audits to real-time control. Read more: https://bit.ly/4zs6Ke4

Energy grids, water systems & transportation run for decades. The software behind them needs to keep up. Hilary Carter shares 4 priorities from a new report marking 10 years of CIP: governance, security by design, shared regulatory frameworks, and hardware alignment. https://bit.ly/3TwOpgS

83% of organizations across every region are now running or planning AI workloads. Hilary Carter reflects on the 2026 Data Infrastructure Report, marking @opensearch.org fifth anniversary. Awareness of OpenSearch jumped from 68% to 89%, production adoption nearly doubled. https://bit.ly/4yDJeLj

How did a hobby project become the engine of global infrastructure? A new LF Research report marks 35 years since Linux began in Helsinki. Today it runs 4B Android devices, 200M+ servers, and all top 500 supercomputers, with 80%+ of contributions now coming from corporate engineers. Read more 👇

LF Research and TODO Group's latest study finds OSPOs are becoming strategic hubs: 79% now participate in AI governance, 69% are prototyping or running agentic AI workflows, and 85% engage at or before tech selection. Read the report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/ospo-2026?hsLang=en

How do physical systems stay secure across 20 to 40 year lifecycles? A new report from LF Research and the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) marks the project's 10 year anniversary by unpacking how open source collaboration solves critical longevity and regulatory challenges. Read the report 👇

Knowing where to start can be the hardest part of open source contribution. Hilary Carter reflects on her Nerdearla panel with AWS, Arm, Valkey, and MariaDB's Michael Widenius, and shares findings from the latest LF guide by Ibrahim Haddad for new contributors. Read more: https://bit.ly/3VjYChb

71% of orgs want infrastructure that isn't tied to one vendor or cloud. Data from LF Research and OpenSearch Software Foundation highlights how AI adoption is reshaping search, security, and interoperability. https://bit.ly/4y3ympB

The Linux Foundation has appointed payments industry veteran Michael Hursta as Executive Director of the x402 Foundation, where he’ll lead 50+ organizations advancing x402, an open standard for internet-native payments across AI agents, applications and APIs. Learn more: x402.org

Want to contribute to open source but don't know where to start? This new guide by Dr. Ibrahim Haddad and LFX Mentorship walks through finding the right project, learning community norms, and making your first contribution. https://bit.ly/4Ao5Vo3

One day left. LF Research, Broadcom, and @cncf.io want to know how your org runs production compute and isolates AI-generated code. A few minutes, closes Wednesday: www.research.net/r/6GGRNJK

Enterprise AI is moving from models to agents. The bottleneck now is trust, governance, and cost, not capability. Read the report Enterprise Transitions to the Agentic Era to learn more about the control layer enterprises need and the shift from shadow AI to governed AI. https://bit.ly/4dKivnI

Developers lose 17+ hours a week to maintenance and bad code, roughly $300B in lost global GDP a year. Dr. Ibrahim Haddad's new roadmap breaks down how to fix it, with practical frameworks and metrics. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4xPzCf8

Last chance to weigh in before this survey closes - it will only take a few minutes! LF Research and Broadcom, with CNCF, are closing their survey on production compute, containers, VMs, bare metal, serverless, and how teams isolate AI-generated code. Take the survey today: https://bit.ly/3Tydg3I

What's the real ROI of open source for the energy grid? LF Research and LF Energy break down a benefit-cost framework showing net value 2 to 5x current operational costs. https://bit.ly/4dB8d9n

Is your data platform built for the AI era? New research finds openly governed, multi-purpose platforms gaining ground fast. OpenSearch awareness jumped from 68% to 89% in two years, and 83% of organizations now run AI workloads. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4y3ympB @opensearch.org

AI is running inside core banking systems now. FINOS & LF Research share insights from finance leaders in London on patching windows, AI compute costs, and shared compliance frameworks. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4jfLW4z

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Ready to build with open source? Dr. Ibrahim Haddad's new guide, created with LF Research & LFX Mentorship, covers choosing projects, licenses, and making your first contribution. Read the full report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/getting-started-oss-development

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3,500+ developers. 150 sessions. AGNTCon + MCPCon North America returns to San Jose October 22-23 to advance the open agentic AI stack. Also this month: Gates Foundation joins AAIF, TRACE joins the LF, new Research and surveys are live. Read the Newsletter: https://bit.ly/4cQiEpp

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Trust, governance, and cost are bigger gatekeepers to enterprise agent adoption than model capability. New LF Research on the shift from cloud-first to agent-first. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4dKivnI

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How do you prove open source ROI to a regulator? New LF Research and LF Energy framework shows increasing open source investment yields net value 2-5x higher than current operational costs for grid operators. Read the report: https://bit.ly/4dB8d9n

The Open Secure AI Alliance, originally founded by @nvidiabot.bsky.social, is now part of the Linux Foundation. To learn more about the Open Secure AI Alliance and how to join the effort to build a neutral, open defense stack for the AI era, visit https://secureaialliance.org/

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How is your team running production compute environments? LF Research and Broadcom, in partnership with CNCF, are surveying containers, VMs, bare metal, and serverless workloads across the industry. Support our research in this mini 12-question survey! Share your input: www.research.net/r/6GGRNJK

ICYMI: Hiring externally in Japan takes 81% longer than upskilling existing staff, and new hires leave at twice the global rate within six months. That is why enterprises are 9.3x more likely to upskill, even as AI drives a projected 54% hiring increase this year. https://bit.ly/4xuLkMJ

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Two thirds to three quarters of AI-generated security patches are production ready. Governance, cost, and trust remain the hard part. A new Linux Foundation and FINOS report captures what financial services leaders discussed at the AI in Finance Summit in June 2026. Read the findings👇 #OpenSource

The Open Secure AI Alliance is now part of the Linux Foundation. Originally founded by NVIDIA, the Open Secure AI Alliance will develop open source tools, shared standards, and defensive practices that help organizations inspect, audit, and secure AI systems. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UqS67S

Open source powers every layer of the AI software stack: agents, models, inference, training and infrastructure. At #OSSummit Korea, Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin explains how open collaboration is lowering costs, accelerating performance and shaping AI’s future. Watch: bit.ly/46ABQDX

While the rest of the world shows a negative net hiring effect for entry level tech roles, Japan is at +46%. Hilary Carter, SVP of Research, shares insights on what is driving Japan's AI hiring growth and the infrastructure skills gap behind it. www.linuxfoundation.org/research/tec...

OpenMDW, a permissive license for machine learning models and their related artifacts growing in momentum: 48 model groups, 12 publishers, 36 domains, including a DOE-backed trillion-parameter model. Learn more about OpenMDW and its new living index of upstream open-weight models. bit.ly/45XTNMC