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Kata Containers 4.0 Cements the Project’s Role as the Open Source Standard for Sandboxing AI Agents

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3 months ago

July 22, 2026

A new Rust-based default runtime, expanded hardware support and a hardened supply chain give the project’s isolation model the strength agentic workloads demand

AUSTIN, Texas, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Kata Containers community today announced the release of Kata Containers 4.0, a milestone that reinforces the project’s growing role as the open source foundation for sandboxing AI agents. The release’s central engineering achievement, a new Rust-based runtime, becomes the project’s default implementation, delivering the memory safety and performance gains needed to isolate agents whose behavior can’t always be predicted in advance.

Kata Containers is an open source project that combines the speed of Linux containers with the isolation of lightweight virtual machines. The project is managed by the OpenInfra Foundation and is used across multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, secure CI/CD pipelines and, increasingly, AI infrastructure.

*** Download Kata Containers 4.0

Why AI Agents Need a Stronger Sandbox

AI agents carry a different risk profile than traditional microservices: their execution paths shift based on the tools they can reach, the memory they accumulate and the prompts they receive, making them harder to trust by default. Kata Containers addresses that risk by running each workload inside its own lightweight virtual machine rather than sharing the host kernel, so a compromised agent cannot see another agent’s memory or move laterally across a cluster.

Kata Containers now serves as one of the supported runtimes for Agent Sandbox, a project under the Kubernetes SIG Apps umbrella, and remains the foundation for Confidential Containers, which encrypts data in use, allowing agent workloads to process private data without exposing it to the infrastructure operator.

*** Community experts from Ant Group, Google and NVIDIA discussed these use cases in depth during the OpenInfra Live episode on agent sandboxing, summarized in this Superuser article.

Organizations already running agent workloads in production are taking notice.

“Ant Group has long been a pioneer in deploying Kata Containers at scale. We first proved its value in co-locating our offline batch and compute workloads, where latency is less critical, to maximize resource efficiency and advance Ant Group’s green computing initiatives. To further bolster our security posture, we expanded Kata’s footprint to our core online services last year, enabling real-time security auditing and immediate mitigation of malicious access. Today, Kata has naturally become the foundational secure sandbox for our AI Agents. With its outstanding isolation and ultra-fast startup performance, Kata is now an integral part of Ant Group’s Agentic Infrastructure. The architectural leap in Kata 4.0—especially the transition to the Rust runtime—directly addresses the stringent security and efficiency requirements of modern AI sandboxing. This release is a masterpiece of community collaboration, and we are proud to drive its adoption.” — Fupan Li, Kata Containers architecture committee (AC) member and head of container technology, Ant Group

“Kata Containers 4.0 brings a memory-safe Rust foundation to one of the ecosystem’s most proven sandboxing frameworks. NVIDIA’s full GPU support, carried seamlessly from the Go runtime to Rust, enables customers to adopt 4.0 without disruption — running agentic AI and confidential workloads with stronger isolation, attestation, and performance. The NVIDIA Confidential Containers Reference Architecture, built on Kata Containers, provides NVIDIA partners a validated Confidential Computing framework for Kubernetes deployments, accelerating the path from evaluation to production. NVIDIA is proud to support this milestone and remains committed to helping customers deploy confidential AI at scale.” — Erik Bohnhorst, director of product management, NVIDIA

“Kata Containers is the foundation of our confidential computing stack here at Edgeless. Our Contrast framework shields entire fleets of containers within Kubernetes and our end-to-end encrypted GenAI inference service Privatemode AI builds directly on top of that. Kata’s pod-in-VM model is what makes this possible. The project’s continued focus on confidential computing has been essential to us. We’re excited about the 4.0 release and proud to contribute to a project that so many production workloads now depend on.” — Felix Schuster, CEO, Edgeless Systems

“Kata is a key component for many of Microsoft’s container isolation workloads such as AKS’s pod sandboxing offering. Kata’s focus on confidentiality, rust-based security, and improved agentic isolation continue to make it a valuable tool to meet the demands of our customers. Microsoft is proud to contribute to this Kata release, and to continue improving the security of AI workloads for our customers.” Jim Perrin — principal program manager lead – Azure Linux, Microsoft

A Rust-Based Foundation Makes It Possible

That level of isolation is only possible because of the architectural work behind Kata Containers 4.0. With this release, runtime-rs, the Rust-based runtime, replaces the original Go implementation as the project’s default, capping a multi-year community effort to move onto a memory-safe foundation. The change improves memory safety, reduces the runtime’s footprint and lowers startup latency, the kind of performance headroom that matters when sandboxes are being spun up and torn down at agent speed. The Go runtime is now deprecated and will continue to receive bug and security fixes during a defined transition period, but the community will not remove it before Kata Containers 5.0.

“Kata Containers 4.0 marks an important evolution for the project,” said Ildiko Vancsa, director of community for the OpenInfra Foundation. “By making the Rust runtime the default, the community is strengthening the project’s safety guarantees while creating a foundation for long-term innovation in secure cloud-native infrastructure.”

*** For the full technical breakdown, including the Go runtime deprecation timeline, supported hypervisors and hardware architectures, read the Kata Containers 4.0 release notes.

Version 4.0 also brings changes beyond the runtime: formalized release acceptance criteria, expanded hardware and hypervisor support, and a hardened software supply chain with updated dependencies and stricter CI checks. Together, these changes give the project a clearer, more predictable foundation for future releases.

*** For a closer look at the community’s work on the new Rust-based runtime, read the Kata Containers 4.0 blog post.

Get Involved

Kata Containers is an open source community that welcomes contributors across runtime development, documentation, testing and ecosystem integration.

Website: https://katacontainers.io GitHub: https://github.com/kata-containers/Slack: #general

About Kata Containers

Kata Containers is an open source project that delivers the performance of standard Linux containers with the enhanced isolation of lightweight virtual machines. Built for secure multi-tenant environments, Kata Containers enables cloud-native workloads to run with stronger isolation without sacrificing speed or compatibility. Kata Containers is managed by the OpenInfra Foundation. katacontainers.io

About the OpenInfra Foundation

The OpenInfra Foundation builds communities that write open source infrastructure software running in production. Backed by more than 110,000 individuals in 187 countries, the OpenInfra Foundation hosts open source projects and communities of practice covering AI infrastructure, container-native applications, edge computing and datacenter clouds. The OpenInfra Foundation is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. Join the OpenInfra movement: www.openinfra.org

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HUYA Inc. to Report Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results on Tuesday, November 17, 2026

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35 minutes ago

October 27, 2026

-Earnings Webinar Scheduled for 5:00 a.m. ET on November 17, 2026-

GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HUYA Inc. (“Huya” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HUYA), a leading game-related entertainment and services provider, today announced that it will report its third quarter 2026 unaudited financial results on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, before the open of U.S. markets.

The Company’s management will host a Tencent Meeting Webinar at 5:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on November 17, 2026 (6:00 p.m. Beijing/Hong Kong time on November 17, 2026), to review and discuss the Company’s business and financial performance.

For participants who wish to join the webinar, please complete the online registration in advance using the links provided below. Upon registration, participants will receive an email with webinar access information, including meeting ID, meeting link, dial-in numbers, and a unique attendee ID to join the webinar.

Participant Online Registration

Chinese Mainland[1]:

https://meeting.tencent.com/dw/WgmznGRbRI7N

International:

https://voovmeeting.com/dw/WgmznGRbRI7N

A live webcast of the webinar will be accessible at https://ir.huya.com, and a replay of the webcast will be available following the session.

[1] For the purpose of this announcement only, Chinese Mainland excludes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan.

About HUYA Inc.

HUYA Inc. is a leading game-related entertainment and services provider. Huya delivers dynamic live streaming and video content and a rich array of services spanning games, e-sports, and other interactive entertainment genres to a large, highly engaged community of game enthusiasts. Huya has cultivated a robust entertainment ecosystem powered by AI and other advanced technologies, serving users and partners across the gaming universe, including game companies, e-sports tournament organizers, broadcasters and talent agencies. Leveraging this strong foundation, Huya has also expanded into innovative game-related services, such as game distribution, in-game item sales, advertising and more. Huya continues to extend its footprint in China and abroad, meeting the evolving needs of gamers, content creators, and industry partners worldwide.

For more information, please visit: https://ir.huya.com.

For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

In China:

HUYA Inc.
Investor Relations
Tel: +86-757-6681-1975
E-mail: ir@huya.com

Piacente Financial Communications
Jenny Cai
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
E-mail: huya@tpg-ir.com

In the United States:

Piacente Financial Communications
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: huya@tpg-ir.com

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MEXC and Hacken Launch AI Trading Safety Handbook to Promote Safer AI Adoption

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35 minutes ago

October 27, 2026

MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, and blockchain security, compliance, and regulatory assurance partner Hacken, have released the MEXC × Hacken AI Trading Safety Handbook, providing practical guidance on how users and platforms can use and deploy AI-assisted and automated trading tools more safely, from research and decision support through trade execution.

The handbook follows the recent MEXC AI Trading Report, which found strong interest in AI alongside clear demand for greater control. In MEXC’s 2026 survey, willingness to use automated trading rose from 55% to 71.8% when limits on funds, positions, leverage and losses were introduced.

As AI takes a more active role in trading, the handbook emphasizes that safety cannot rely on the AI model alone. AI-facilitated actions should be checked against separate permissions, financial limits and risk controls before execution. It covers risks including credential exposure, excessive permissions, manipulated data and unintended execution, while outlining practical safeguards for both users and platforms.

For users, the handbook sets out five safety checks: Ask, Verify, Limit, Control and Review. For platforms, it outlines five principles: Guard, Limit, Approve, Controls and Test. Together, they provide a practical framework for expanding the use of AI while keeping appropriate controls in place.

“AI can make trading more accessible and efficient, but greater capability should come with stronger safeguards,” said Vugar Usi Zade, CEO of MEXC. “At MEXC, we want users to benefit from innovation, while taking a measured approach to AI adoption. Our People First principle means giving users access to new capabilities without losing sight of control, transparency and risk.”

“AI agents will soon place more orders than people do. Trust in them should be earned the way smart contracts earned it: through independent controls, continuous red-teaming and evidence anyone can verify,” said Dyma Budorin, CEO and co-founder of Hacken. “This handbook is intended to raise awareness of those risks and provide practical support for both users and platforms. As adoption grows, platforms will need to test these safeguards continuously and strengthen them as new risks emerge.”

MEXC and Hacken hope the handbook can serve as a practical reference for users and platforms as AI becomes more deeply integrated into trading, helping raise risk awareness and support safer, more responsible adoption across the industry.

About MEXC

Founded in 2018, MEXC is a leading global multi-asset trading platform built as your 0-fee gateway to infinite opportunities. Serving users across 170+ markets, MEXC provides simple and efficient access to crypto, stocks, tokenized assets, derivatives, and a growing range of TradFi-linked opportunities through one account and one gateway.

With 0 trading fees, deep liquidity, broad asset coverage, and a high-performance trading experience, MEXC is designed for retail users who want to discover earlier, act faster, and trade with fewer barriers. As crypto and traditional finance continue to converge, MEXC is committed to making global opportunities more accessible, helping users trade freely and MEXCmize every opportunity.

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About Hacken

Hacken is a security and assurance partner for financial institutions and the infrastructure they rely on: exchanges, ecosystems, custodians, banks, asset managers, and tokenization platforms. Hacken’s AI security work includes AI agent security audits and red-teaming of AI systems.

Founded in 2017, Hacken has 60+ engineers and more than 1,500 clients across industries, including the European Commission, ADGM, Ethereum Foundation, Societe Generale-Forge, MetaMask, and Bybit.

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Renoworks Appoints SaaS Sales Executive Madan Murthy as Vice President of Sales

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35 minutes ago

October 27, 2026

Strategic appointment strengthens enterprise sales capabilities to accelerate growth and market adoption of renoworks.ai

CALGARY, AB, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Renoworks Software Inc. (TSXV: RW) (OTC: ROWKF) (“Renoworks” or the “Company”), an industry leader in AI-powered visualization, design and lead-generation technology for the building products industry, today announced the appointment of Madan Murthy as Vice President of Sales. The appointment supports initial positive feedback from existing clients of renoworks.ai, which now requires more sales resources to move faster.

Mr. Murthy brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling business-to-business technology and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) organizations, with a demonstrated track record of accelerating revenue growth, acquiring enterprise customers and developing high-performing sales organizations across international markets.

The appointment comes as Renoworks enters a new phase of growth following the launch of renoworks.ai, its next-generation AI-native platform combining photorealistic visualization, product intelligence, homeowner engagement, lead generation and data analytics. The Company believes this expanded offering creates significant opportunities to deepen relationships with existing customers and attract new manufacturers, distributors, retailers and contractors seeking to leverage AI to improve customer engagement and drive sales.

“The launch of renoworks.ai represents an important step forward in our growth strategy, and we believe the opportunity to expand our market presence has never been greater,” said Doug Vickerson, Chief Executive Officer of Renoworks. “Following recent introductions of these new capabilities to the building products industry, it is evident that it is now time to strengthen our enterprise sales organization. Madan brings extensive experience scaling SaaS businesses, winning major enterprise accounts and building repeatable sales processes. His proven ability to translate innovative technology into sustainable revenue growth makes him an excellent addition to our leadership team.”

Throughout his career, Mr. Murthy has contributed to significant revenue growth across multiple technology organizations. His accomplishments include helping scale a business from $50 million to $225 million in revenue while increasing new-customer opportunity-to-close rates from 8% to 35% and improving customer retention to 98%. He has also helped grow an early-stage software company’s SaaS business to $25 million in recurring revenue, secured Fortune 500 customers and built and led a 30-person international sales organization spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

In his new role, Mr. Murthy will focus on expanding Renoworks’ enterprise customer base, developing new market opportunities and accelerating adoption of renoworks.ai. He will work closely with the Company’s existing business development, marketing and customer success teams to strengthen its sales pipeline, enhance go-to-market execution and support long-term recurring revenue growth.

“I am excited to join Renoworks at such an important stage in its evolution,” said Madan Murthy, Vice President of Sales. “The combination of Renoworks’ established relationships across the building products industry, deep product expertise and its new AI-native platform creates a compelling opportunity for growth. I look forward to working with the team to expand our enterprise presence, develop new customer relationships and help bring the benefits of renoworks.ai to a broader market.”

About Renoworks

Renoworks Software Inc. (TSXV: RW) (OTC: ROWKF) develops and markets AI-powered software solutions for the home remodeling and new home construction industries. The Company provides manufacturers, contractors, builders and retailers with innovative digital solutions that help homeowners visualize building products on their homes, make more informed purchasing decisions and connect with industry professionals.

Through its next-generation renoworks.ai platform, the Company is expanding beyond traditional visualization to deliver advanced AI-driven design capabilities, product intelligence, lead generation, data analytics and integrated sales workflows. These solutions help industry participants enhance customer engagement, streamline the remodeling process and increase sales opportunities.

Renoworks generates revenue through its primary business lines, including Renoworks Enterprise, Renoworks PRO, Renoworks Design Services and Renoworks API.

For more information, visit www.renoworks.com and www.renoworkspro.com.

Forward Looking Information

Certain statements in this news release, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking information that involves various risks and uncertainties. Such statements relating to, among other things, the prospects for the Company to enhance operating results, expand adoption of its AI-powered platform and introduce new software capabilities, are necessarily subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which are significant in scope and nature. These uncertainties may cause actual results to differ from information contained herein. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements are based on the estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice.

The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions change, except as required by applicable securities laws.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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