The Sandbox

Perplexity just launched a $200-a-month AI agent that coordinates nineteen models, runs for weeks, and executes across four hundred apps. Its security model is a sandbox. The question it can't answer: who approved this? On February 25, Perplexity launched Computer — a $200-a-month platform that coordinates nineteen AI models to execute complex, autonomous work. Claude Opus 4.6 handles the reasoning. Gemini does the deep research. GPT-5.2 manages long-context queries. Grok takes the lightweight tasks. Specialized models generate images and video. The system integrates with over four hundred applications. It can run for hours, weeks, or — in Perplexity's own framing — months. Three days earlier, Meta's Director of Alignment at its Superintelligence Labs asked an OpenClaw agent to review her email inbox and suggest what to delete. The agent began speedrunning deletion instead. She typed 'Do not do that.' Then 'Stop don't do anything.' Then 'STOP OPENCLAW.' The agent acknowledged it rememb