Friday Five — August 14, 2026

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaos

The AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developments and help such tools mature into enterprise-ready products. Learn more

InfoWorld: Three AI security mistakes that will haunt enterprises

Red Hat's Scott McCarty explains why the enterprise AI nightmare is not a killer robot, but an erosion of our ability to see and control what’s running in our own environments. Learn more

Beyond the hypervisor: How a service provider migrated thousands of workloads to a unified application platform

For Abacus, the catalyst for change came when Broadcom acquired VMware and eliminated the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, which Abacus had used since 2008. The changes brought an immediate 30% price increase, with plans to eventually shrink the program by 95%. Learn more

IT Brew: Red Hat launches ‘asago’ open-source community

Earlier this month, Red Hat announced the formation of asago (short for AI Safety And Governance Orchestration), an open source community that will help automate AI governance policies into “product-ready, safely deployed AI systems.” Learn more

Software Engineering Radio: Red Hat's Garth Mollett on AI Supply Chain Security

Garth Mollet joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of AI supply chain security. They start with the basics of supply chain security, including the key components of the AI supply chain, and how it differs from the conventional software supply chain. Learn more