26th January 2026
Research
What we learned today about this ChatGPT “container” environment
— Experiments in the ChatGPT sandbox reveal that general outbound internet access from Python and other user code (such as HTTP requests) is entirely blocked, while package managers like pip and npm are permitted to fetch dependencies using curated internal registry proxies. The container provides a privileged fetching mechanism (`container.download`) for select public URLs, which is more powerful than standard code-based networking.
Recent articles
- Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement" - 28th May 2026
- I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - 27th May 2026
- Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI - 25th May 2026