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sandbox

[sand-boks] / ˈsændˌbɒks /


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The sandbox game, Gorebox, has been banned in the Philippines and the Senate is investigating the effects of violent computer games on young people.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Reddit on the whole encourages brands to play in the Reddit sandbox so long as they arrive with utility, humility and respect, Collins said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Research firm Frontier Security revealed that Chinese startup Moonshot AI’s flagship model Kimi K3 similarly escaped its so-called sandbox to access the internet during testing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

"It's all a bit unwritten because we've never had an AI agent break out of its sandbox and hack other people on the internet before," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

A frowning girl with a straw-colored ponytail was digging by herself in a sandbox, earnestly moving shovelful after shovelful from one pile to another.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

At the same time, AIs are starting to climb out of their sandboxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The bombshell announcement was full of scary, highly technical terms: "a swarm of sandboxes", "agentic attacker", and "self-migrating command and control".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

It just means that you get an opportunity to play in sandboxes that you may not have otherwise.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2024

It was born from a wild artist collective that created these family-friendly psychedelic sandboxes.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2024

Like most other major universities, Berkeley tended to think of chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers all as inhabitants of discrete sandboxes.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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