{
  "id": 10469394,
  "title": "Nvidia Gives Banks a New Way to Stop AI Agents From Crossing the Line",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/nvidia-gives-banks-a-new-way-to-stop-ai-agents-from-crossing-the-line",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T14:38:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/nvidia-gives-banks-new-way-stop-ai-agents-from-crossing-line/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Nvidia is introducing a new safety platform to help businesses control autonomous AI agents, even if the software controlling them fails to stay within proper boundaries. This Open Agent Safety Platform combines software restrictions with an independent hardware watchdog, providing a foundation for enforcing permissions in sectors like banking and payments.\n\nThe platform includes Nvidia OpenShell software, which creates a controlled environment around an agent, traces its actions, and enforces operating rules. A separate watchdog called Sentry, running on Nvidia’s BlueField-4 data processing hardware, monitors behavior independently and can quarantine and stop an agent within milliseconds if it tries to escape its software boundaries.\n\nNvidia emphasizes that business operators must define which files, networks, tools, and credentials an agent can access, while the OpenShell software checks and enforces those limits. The additional hardware layer verifies the agent’s identity and delegated authority, maintaining a record of interactions and access decisions.\n\nSeveral major organizations, including Anthropic, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks, are already working with the platform’s technologies. Citi and JPMorgan Chase are collaborating on shared open-source agent safety technologies, but this does not confirm they have deployed the full platform in production.\n\nFor instance, a hypothetical treasury agent authorized to arrange payments below $100,000 would still need both business system checks on the amount, recipient, and required approvals, as well as technical restrictions that limit the agent to a payment interface enforcing those requirements. Both controls would need to work together to prevent unauthorized or inappropriate actions.",
  "summary": "Nvidia is moving the artificial intelligence kill switch deeper into the machinery, giving businesses a way to stop autonomous agents even when the software directing them fails to keep them within bounds. The company’s Open Agent Safety Platform, announced in a Monday (Sept. 28) press release, combines software restrictions with an independent hardware watchdog. For […] The post Nvidia Gives…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}