Friday Five — December 19, 2025

Red Hat Accelerates AI Trust and Security with Chatterbox Labs Acquisition

Red Hat has acquired Chatterbox Labs, a specialist in AI safety and generative AI guardrails. This acquisition integrates model-agnostic security and transparency tools into the Red Hat AI portfolio, helping enterprises deploy trustworthy, production-grade AI across hybrid cloud environments with automated risk metrics and safety testing. Learn more

Fierce Network - Red Hat's CTO keeps an 'open' mind on AI

Red Hat CTO Chris Wright reaffirms the company's commitment to "default to open" for AI, underscoring how open ecosystems drive responsible innovation, address hybrid cloud complexities, and leverage AI as a force multiplier for developers while shifting focus toward the critical data layer. Learn more

Looking ahead to 2026: Red Hat’s view across the hybrid cloud

Red Hat executives outline their 2026 outlook, focusing on shifting AI from experimentation to production. Key priorities include modernizing infrastructure to tackle technical debt, scaling agentic AI through unified inference platforms, and leveraging open hybrid cloud solutions to ensure security, flexibility, and sovereignty across diverse environments. Learn more

AI Magazine - How Red Hat and AWS Bring Scalable Gen AI to the Enterprise

Red Hat is expanding its collaboration with AWS to optimize Red Hat AI for AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, enabling enterprises to scale production-ready generative AI across hybrid cloud environments. Learn more

SiliconANGLE - Powering the AI machine: Red Hat leverages the cloud-native open source toolbox to build solutions for next-gen IT

Red Hat is utilizing its open source "toolbox," including Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and vLLM, to bridge platform engineering and AI development, providing a secure, interoperable fabric that helps enterprises scale AI workloads, manage VMs, and implement zero-trust security across hybrid environments. Learn more