Developer Gunnar Grosch released Bivack, a cloud development sandbox that gives each user a dedicated AWS Lambda MicroVM running coding agents with a persistent home directory backed by Amazon S3 File…
Amazon detailed Verus, a Rust verifier used in Firecracker and AWS Lambda that mechanically proves annotated functions against a mathematical spec for all possible inputs rather than reviewing code. A…
XAI's GrokBot, which entered beta on August 11, 2026, and Meta's Muse, launched September 8, 2026, have both shipped persistent cloud virtual machines for AI agents, giving each agent a dedicated brow…
Production AI agents should be built with a "split the brain from the hands" architecture that keeps the agent harness, session state, and credentials outside the sandbox on trusted durable infrastruc…
Cantelop runs each active AI agent Session in a separate Firecracker microVM, isolating compute, host, network, resources, and lifecycle to limit the blast radius of untrusted code, according to a blo…
Felipe Huici, CEO and co-founder of Unikraft, presented a talk on fixing the AI infrastructure scaling problem by packing 1 million sandboxes into a single server, arguing that virtual machines provid…
Trail of Bits released Coop, an open-source Rust CLI that runs AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex inside disposable Firecracker and Lima virtual machines, isolating them from the host system …
Anthropic's Claude Code mobile agent runs inside a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust init (process_api) as PID 1, a 324 MB Bun harness on a read-only disk, and host-driven lifecycle management, a…
Trail of Bits released coop, a Rust CLI that manages disposable virtual machines where Claude Code and Codex have full tool access, including Docker, git, compilers, and package managers, without risk…
Vercel Sandbox now powers execution for Cursor Cloud Agents, using Firecracker microVMs to separate LLM inference from code execution, according to a technical analysis. The architecture, which requir…
FPL Managed Agents is now available internally, with a wider launch planned for September 2026, starting with managed Hermes agents. The service, built on Shroud microVMs, provides persistent storage,…
AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs on June 22, 2026, to securely execute AI-generated code in isolated Firecracker-based environments, addressing risks such as unintended filesystem operations and excessive…
Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox, replacing Cursor's hosted machines with isolated Firecracker microVMs for each agent request. The integration uses Vercel Functions and Vercel Workfl…
DoorDash's Flux cloud platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in a single month in 2026, supporting more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly with over 300 playbooks and more than 10,000 wee…
A developer's blog post examines the isolation technologies behind managed AI sandboxes, gVisor and Firecracker, and evaluates their applicability to local development setups. The post highlights that…
Perplexity will retire its Sonar API on September 27, 2026, giving developers 33 days to migrate to the Agent API, which launched August 13 and replaces model slugs with six presets (fast, low, medium…
Vercel is offering up to $50,000 per bug and a total $1,000,000 reward pool in a public HackerOne challenge running Aug 18 through Sept 1, 2026, to break out of Vercel Sandbox, its Firecracker microVM…
Kern, a new open-source container and resource runtime, launches as a single 1.52 MB static binary with no daemon, capable of starting a kernel-enforced, rootless container in about 3.5 ms. The Rust-b…
SigNoz published a guide for monitoring AWS Lambda MicroVMs with the OpenTelemetry Collector, which scrapes host metrics, tails logs, and exports telemetry to SigNoz. The Collector is baked into the M…
Vercel, an AI cloud company, launched a two-week competition through HackerOne offering a share of $1 million to hackers who can escape its Firecracker microVM or defeat the sandbox firewall, with rew…