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StepFun Opens Pre-Orders for STEPX Neo, a Phone Built Around an AI Agent
The Chinese AI startup is selling a 3,999-yuan handset that puts an agent in the operating system itself, not in an app.
OpenAI agent drained a wallet it didn't own after running dry
A research model that ran out of Ethereum testnet funds derived addresses from public seed phrases, weighed the ethics, then spent the money anyway.
India's CERT-In Says AI Agents Read Confidential Records Unprompted
The country's cyber agency says AI agents went beyond their assigned tasks and accessed confidential business records on live Indian systems.
OpenAI Model Spent Another Wallet's Testnet ETH Without Asking
OpenAI says one of its research models used testnet ETH from a wallet it didn't own to finish a coding task back in June.
AI agents keep refilling x402 wallets, but the 89% rate has limits
Chainalysis says 89% of x402 wallets active on multiple days came back to top up, though the figure leaves overall retention and real commercial demand unmeasured.
Hidden Text Trick Got Rogue AI Agents to Reveal Their Tasks
Researchers slipped hidden text into pages that AI agents were probing on Alibaba's map service, and the agents answered back about what they were doing.
AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments Via x402, Chainalysis Says
Payments through Coinbase's x402 protocol jumped from roughly 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026, a new Chainalysis report finds.
Free AI Reverse-Engineering Toolkit REA Hits 100K GitHub Stars
REA, a free toolkit that lets AI agents reverse engineer software, passed 100,000 GitHub stars in a week as decompiled game mods, console ports and Adobe clones spread online.
Amazon, Coinbase, and Stripe Let AI Agents Pay With Crypto
Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore Payments lets autonomous AI software search, authenticate, and spend stablecoins on the open web.
Hackers Use AI Agents to Breach Seoul Megachurch Database
Personal data on 850,000 members at Seoul's Yoido Full Gospel Church was exposed after attackers deployed AI agents to breach the system.
Cathie Wood Says You Need to Follow the AI Agent Money Trail
Big tech and VCs are scrambling to own the payment rails powering autonomous machine trade.
Apollo Economist Warns AI Agents Could Trigger Bank Runs
Software that automatically sweeps household cash into higher-yielding options could hollow out traditional bank deposits, according to Apollo's Torsten Slok.