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Tom's Hardware October 17, 2026 By Jhet Borja neutral

Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn't own to complete a task during test

OpenAIAI / LLM
GPT5.6-Sol didn't have funds to deploy smart contracts, so it looked for exposed accounts with enough money to pay for the gas fees.
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