tl;dr: A consortium of major tech, finance, and telecom companies—including AWS, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, JPMorganChase, and Red Hat—launched Akrites, a coordinated initiative to find, patch, and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in critical open source software. The effort responds to AI dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery (minutes instead of weeks), overwhelming maintainers with duplicate reports and outpacing patch cycles. Akrites promises confidential, upstream-focused remediation through a shared Security Incident Response Team, and will act as "maintainer of last resort" for unmaintained critical packages.