Linux Foundation Newsletter: September 2026
Welcome to the September 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter The open agentic AI community is coming together in San Jose for AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, October 22–23. More than 3,500 developers, researchers, maintainers and technical leaders will gather for 150 sessions across 11…
Welcome to the September 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter The open agentic AI community is coming together in San Jose for AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, October 22–23. More than 3,500 developers, researchers, maintainers and technical leaders will gather for 150 sessions across 11 tracks focused on MCP, agent infrastructure, security, interoperability and production agent systems. Register by October 8 to save. Beyond the event, six developments stand out this month. TheAgentic AI Foundation welcomed the Gates Foundation as its first philanthropic member, bringing the perspectives of underserved communities into the development of agentic AI and supporting broader participation in the firstMCP Dev Summit Nairobi. The Linux Foundation welcomed TRACE, an open specification developed with AMD, Anthropic, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OPAQUE and TII to provide portable, verifiable runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents and confidential workloads. TheXen Project launched the Xen Safety Committee to develop shared engineering artifacts for functional safety certification and extended security coverage for Xen releases to five years.OpenSearch won the Analytics & Data Intelligence Solutions category in SiliconANGLE’s2026 TechForward Awards as the project celebrates five years of community growth. NewLF Energy research found that open source software can deliver two to five times greater net value for grid operators and introduced a standardized framework for evaluating those investments. LF Energy also welcomed three new members and three new projects, advanced Power Grid Model to Early Adoption after more than 10 million downloads, and documented how TenneT achieved a tenfold improvement in grid security analysis performance with PowSyBl. You’ll also find new Linux Foundation research, training and certification opportunities, registration for upcoming events, and project news spanning cloud native, AI, energy, cybersecurity, automotive, telecommunications, mainframe, geospatial and open hardware. >> Read on for even more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.Source: Linux Foundation AI — Published — Category: Open Source