Nvidia releases a new Open Agent Safety Platform, Amazon could be expanding Prime Air drone deliveries to Australia, Sony is skipping CES in 2027.
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Nvidia Builds a Leash for AI Agents
Nvidia’s new Open Agent Safety Platform is meant to keep autonomous AI agents from wandering outside their assigned boundaries. It includes OpenShell for limiting what agents can do, and Sentry for watching their behavior on network chips, with Nvidia saying the setup could have helped prevent the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.
source: CNBC
Starship Finally Makes Orbit
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time on its 14th full-scale launch, despite one engine shutting down early. The mission carried 26 advanced Starlink satellites and gives SpaceX a major proof point as it works toward NASA’s Artemis moon plans, plus eventual catches and reuse of the spacecraft.
source: Associated Press
Citrix Has a NetScaler Emergency
Citrix confirmed two actively exploited NetScaler Application Delivery Controller and Gateway vulnerabilities, both severe enough to allow remote code execution. Since these devices often sit at the edge of corporate networks, the patch-now message is pretty direct.
source: BleepingComputer
Amazon Looks for More Drone Airspace
Amazon appears to be eyeing Prime Air drone deliveries in Australia and parts of Asia. The clue is a regulatory approvals job tied to Asia-Pacific expansion, which means the next step is less about drones and more about convincing local aviation regulators they can safely fly over neighborhoods.
source: The Register
Singapore’s New Chip Fab Is Already Spoken For
Nikkei Asia reports TSMC affiliate Vanguard International Semiconductor is already considering a second Singapore chip plant after the first opened with capacity effectively sold out. The joint venture with NXP is expected to reach 44,000 12-inch wafers a month by 2029, with AI infrastructure demand helping drive the pressure.
source: Nikkei Asia
Anthropic Loses a Round With the Pentagon
Reuters reports a federal appeals court declined to block the Pentagon’s national-security supply-chain-risk designation for Anthropic. The fight goes back to Anthropic refusing to remove Claude safeguards around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance, and the company says the label has already cost it billions in business.
source: Reuters
Sony Breaks Up With CES
Sony is skipping CES in 2027, ending a decades-long run at the Las Vegas tech show. Bloomberg says the decision follows the collapse of Sony’s Honda electric vehicle venture and fits with Sony’s broader shift toward games, music, film, and creator tools.
source: Bloomberg
Microsoft’s Cloud Lesson for Nonprofits
The Register reports Microsoft is telling nonprofit and education community users that deleted Microsoft 365 data from retired tenants cannot be recovered. Microsoft says it warned users ahead of the August 6th shutdown, but some groups still missed the deadline, which is a painful reminder that even free cloud services need backups.
source: The Register
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