Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board (opens in new tab)

For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflows with increasing autonomy. What the industry has not done, at least not with any consistency, is answer the question that keeps chief information security officers awake at night: what happens when an agent goes wrong?On Tuesday at its annual , or MXC — a policy-driven execution layer, built into...