Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure, monitor, and govern AI agents, and partners with Canonical, AWS, BBVA, and others
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A reference architecture for securing and governing AI agents — with partners from Canonical to BBVA — is a push to make agent control a standardized enterprise concern. If you’re piloting agents, map your current ad-hoc scripts against these patterns and decide where you need centralized policy, logging, and kill switches.
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