Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform (OpenShell)
AI SAFETY The company that powers the agent boom now wants to police it. On Monday, Nvidia unveiled an open platform with two lines of defense: software boundaries on the CPU, and a watchdog running on network silicon that can cut a rogue agent off in milliseconds. Published September 28, 2026 · By Daniel Rao Update, Sept. 28: the $12.9 billion elephant in the room Context missing from Monday's announcement: Nvidia agreed on September 3 to acquire Hugging Face — the very platform the new safety tools would have protected — for $12.9303 billion (announced as ~$13 billion), with $11.9 billion in cash to stockholders and up to $1 billion in employee retention (Reuters; CNBC; the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval). The acquisition is not complete — it is a definitive agreement — but it reframes the launch: Nvidia is building safety infrastructure for a platform it is about to own. Monday's coverage added product detail too: Security...