Google Cloud launches Agent Compute Engine, one microVM per agent
Customer preview is months away; open-source Agent Substrate is already on GKE for non-production use.
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Google Agent Compute Engine gives each Gemini agent its own microVM
A preview is planned in the coming months; Google says 200,000 agents suspended and resumed in under 500 milliseconds.
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, a Firecracker microVM sandbox for isolating AI agents.
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Critical Docker Sandbox Vulnerabilities Enable Malicious Guests to Escape Isolated microVM Workspaces
Docker patched two sandbox-escape flaws, CVE-2026-77179 and CVE-2026-79994, letting malicious guest workloads access host files and sockets.
$1 Million Sandbox Challenge Uncovers Linux Kernel Flaws
Vercel's $1M sandbox challenge surfaced two Linux kernel networking defects—one leaking host kernel memory, one crashing hosts—with CVEs pending.
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The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)
A teardown reveals Claude Code runs in Firecracker microVMs with a Rust PID 1 and MITM'd egress, while Instinct rents E2B sandboxes with git-based memory.
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