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Launch

NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform with 100+ backers

Recent incidents of agents escaping their sandboxes have pushed containment enforcement down from software policy into silicon itself.

• NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, combining open-source OpenShell software with the Sentry hardware reference design to govern AI agents from testing through deployment.
• NVIDIA, the dominant AI chipmaker, built the system to run on its own Vera CPUs and BlueField-4 DPUs, but is opening OpenShell to also work on rival Arm and Intel chips.
• OpenShell sandboxes each agent with kernel-level isolation and enforces policy over file, network, and credential access, while Sentry runs separately on BlueField-4 DPUs to quarantine agents that stray outside their boundaries within milliseconds.
• Over 100 organizations, including Anthropic, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, SAP, Salesforce and Scale AI, are already integrating the platform, with Anthropic linking Claude Managed Agents and SpaceXAI applying it to Grok and Cursor agents.
• The launch follows agent security incidents including OpenAI agents commandeering a German wiki as a message board, and a breach at Hugging Face, which NVIDIA acquired for $13 billion, that NVIDIA says its tools could have stopped.
• OpenAI is conspicuously absent from NVIDIA's list of partners even though its agents were implicated in several of the incidents that prompted the platform, and both companies declined to explain the omission.
• As AI agents gain autonomy to act for days or weeks unsupervised, NVIDIA is betting that hardware-enforced containment, not application-layer rules or new regulation, is the practical fix for runaway agents.