Friday Five — December 19, 2025

Friday Five — December 19, 2025 Red Hat Accelerates AI Trust and Security with Chatterbox Labs Acquisition Fierce Network - Red Hat's CTO keeps an 'open' mind on AI Looking ahead to 2026: Red Hat’s view across the hybrid cloud AI Magazine - How Red Hat and AWS Bring Scalable Gen AI to the Enterprise SiliconANGLE - Powering the AI machine: Red Hat leverages the cloud-native open source toolbox to build solutions for next-gen IT About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Master modern hybrid cloud security and scale with Red Hat updates F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is now validated for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Technically Speaking | Platform engineering for AI agents Technically Speaking | Driving healthcare discoveries with AI Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share 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 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 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 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 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 Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.