The software supply chain is the new battlefield. AI just changed the rules.
The New Stack 3 weeks ago 9
AI coding tools and frontier AI models are accelerating both software creation and attacker capabilities, shifting the collision toward the software supply chain. GitHub reported about 275 million commits per week by April 2026, alongside a jump in GitHub Actions usage from 500 million compute minutes per week in 2023 to 2.1 billion in a single recent week. As a result, vulnerability management is being pushed to prevent issues earlier with trusted provenance and tighter CI/CD and dependency controls, while initiatives like Chainguard’s Athena focus on turning large-volume AI vulnerability findings into fixes.
