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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

Researchers have tested AI agents to see if they could find flaws in computer code and network configurations in a closed environment called a sandbox.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 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

One that didn’t have no friends at the playground and just stood there watching while all the other kids were laughing and chasing each other around the sandbox and jumping off the bars.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

It should do the same for experimental sandboxes, requiring air-gapped systems—secure, isolated computer testing environments.

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

Traipsing through genres and time periods, these excursions are an opportunity for Bi and his creative team to frolic in various cinematic sandboxes.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

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

From Salon Aug. 24, 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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