Friday Five — July 3, 2026

IBM, Red Hat, and Deloitte Announce Lightwell Collaboration to Help Strengthen Open Source Software Supply Chain Trust

Deloitte is teaming up with IBM and Red Hat to support Lightwell and strengthen the enterprise open source software supply chain. By backporting and validating patches directly into active production environments, the collaboration fixes vulnerabilities at machine speed without forcing disruptive, full-system software upgrades. Learn more

Bloomberg Tech Disruptors Podcast - Red Hat president and CEO Matt Hicks on Open Source and Enterprise AI

In a recent Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Anurag Rana to discuss Red Hat’s role in open source, how virtualization and hybrid cloud drive enterprise AI, and the value of utilizing smaller, containerized models to achieve highly flexible, cost-efficient AI infrastructure. Learn more

Security Week - Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites

Red Hat, alongside other industry leaders, is backing the Linux Foundation's new Project Akrites to combat AI-accelerated cyber threats. The initiative creates a unified Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) to validate, patch, and responsibly disclose open source software vulnerabilities before they can be weaponized in enterprise environments. Learn more

Developing and Deploying AI/ML Applications on Red Hat OpenShift AI

Get this Red Hat Learning Subscription Course at 50% off local MSRP, now through December 31, 2026. Through hands-on learning, data scientists and developers can gain essential MLOps skills to efficiently train, test, serve, and monitor predictive and generative AI models at scale. Learn more

The Register - NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

NASA is testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) to autonomously diagnose and treat astronauts on deep-space missions when communication with Earth is delayed. Crucially, the AI doctor runs on RamaLama—a Red Hat-backed open source tool designed to simplify pulling and serving local AI models. Learn more