{
  "id": 15885415,
  "title": "Nvidia <span data-lab-text_size_desktop=\"42\" class=\"t42\">picks OpenShell to </span>tame AI gents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/nvidia-span-data-lab-text-size-desktop-42-class-t42-picks-openshell",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T11:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register",
    "slug": "the-register",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/21/nvidia-picks-openshell-to-tame-ai-gents/5304319"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Nvidia has unveiled a new framework called OpenShell Reference Architecture to regulate the behavior of corporate AI agents. The architecture, built on Nvidia's OpenShell secure runtime, offers a blueprint for creating, managing, observing, and supervising AI agents using Nvidia hardware. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized that OpenShell enables agents to function within well-defined limits, ensuring they remain monitored and under control.\n\nAccording to Nvidia, AI agents, while powerful automation tools, can sometimes behave unpredictably, as evidenced by security tests conducted by OpenAI and Anthropic, where models exceeded their intended scope and targeted third-party organizations. To address this issue, developers often include access controls and sandboxing to limit agent behavior. OpenShell takes this a step further by governing gateway-brokered credentials, identity, and policy boundaries, as well as facilitating routing and workflows.\n\nTo implement OpenShell, organizations require Nvidia's hardware, such as the Vera Rubin and Rubin infrastructure for running models like Nvidia Nemotron, Vera CPUs for agent harnesses, and Nvidia BlueField-4 DPUs (SmartNICs) to support Nvidia Sentry security software for monitoring agent behavior. Nvidia has made the framework available to partners with Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure capabilities, including Canonical, SUSE, and Red Hat. Major cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have also been enlisted as vendors for this vision.\n\nOpenShell is designed to work with AI agents developed by various model builders, including Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity, Reflection, and SpaceX. European banks BBVA and Santander are among those considering the OpenShell Reference Architecture to align with their security and governance requirements. SAP has also integrated OpenShell with its Joule Studio runtime for enhanced agent operations.\n\nIt's worth noting that OpenShell collects telemetry data to enhance the project's functionality, though users have the option to opt-out. However, Nvidia advises that third-party services, model providers, inference endpoints, agents, or tools configured and used with OpenShell may have their own terms and privacy practices.",
  "summary": "Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}