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sandbox

[sand-boks] / ˈsændˌbɒks /


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OpenAI calculates that a new monitoring system it set up after news that its agents left a testing sandbox this summer could add 20% to its compute costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

People would walk in a sandbox to get the sound of somebody walking up the gravel road to the door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

If an A.I. model goes beyond the scope of a test or accidentally breaks free of its sandbox, you can’t blame the machine for its tester’s lack of guardrails.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

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

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

It cited increased precautions with its training sandboxes to prevent agents from breaking out of secure testing systems.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Large-language models built by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic keep breaking out of their testing sandboxes.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

For AI sandboxes there is no mandatory standard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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

Scattered over it were jungle gyms and tall swings, sandboxes, slides and a baseball diamond.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt




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