Artificial Intelligence

An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own

Headline and link to the original report by CoinDeskHow we report

CoinDeskOctober 16, 2026

Interestana links to this report without summarising it, because CoinDesk does not allow reuse of its reporting.

Read on CoinDesk

Ref 0044A6VS

Follow this story

Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Get Artificial Intelligence in your inbox — new stories in 40 words or fewer, once a week.

Follow Interestana

Read next

Judge rejects CFTC, Gemini bid to undo $5M settlement

OpenAI model helped itself to testnet crypto, then kept quiet about it

Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk

Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Bottlenecks