Sandbox Windows agents with OS-enforced file and network policies

Microsoft made Execution Containers generally available on Windows, letting admins and developers declare which files and network destinations an AI agent may use, with the operating system enforcing that policy at runtime. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued that controls over what a model can access and do must sit outside the model and its harness, with tamper-proof logs, independent audit, model diversity and an emergency stop. Separately, Sakana AI and UC Berkeley researchers had one 27B open-weights model run as a team of subagents, pick its best team runs by self-judgment and train on them, raising score per output token 1.2-1.6x after two cycles.

Microsoft made Execution Containers generally available on Windows. Admins and developers declare which files and network destinations an agent may use, and the operating system enforces that policy at runtime. Read: Microsoft made Execution Containers generally available on Windows. Admins and developers declare which files and network destinations an agent may use, and the operating system enforces that policy at runtime. Read: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued that controls over what a model can access and do must sit outside the model and its harness, with tamper-proof logs, independent audit, model diversity and an emergency stop. Read: Sakana AI and UC Berkeley researchers had one 27B open-weights model run as a team of subagents, pick its best team runs by self-judgment and train on them. After two cycles, score per output token rose 1.2-1.6x. Read: ElevenLabs released ElevenAgents Architect in alpha, a built-in assistant that analyzes transcripts, failing tests and Spotlight findings, proposes configuration changes, writes simulations and saves versioned drafts for approval. Watch: In an AI Engineer workshop, Akamai's Du'an Lightfoot and Khaja Omer showed speculative decoding dropping a vLLM-served model from about 58 to 16 tokens per second, and used it to argue for measuring every serving change. Read: Andrej Karpathy described a funnel of LLM experience, from billions with little contact to a few thousand with internal frontier access, and tied the widening perception gap to problem ambition, jagged capability and tiered access.