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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.
Stop Burning AI Tokens: How to Spend Less and Get More
AI companies bill by the token, and Decrypt's new guide argues most users waste them on tasks a cheaper model could handle.
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.
Big Tech's AI auditors may only see what they're shown
A CoinDesk op-ed argues the audits promised under the White House AI accord won't mean much unless auditors, not the companies, decide what gets tested.
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.
Google: AI writes 75% of its code, but it isn't building itself yet
Google DeepMind's first internal audit of AI-driven research found no measurable speedup in AI progress, even with AI writing most of the code.
Dev Used Claude to Clone Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Free
Brandon Thomas built open-source lookalikes of Microsoft's core Office apps with Anthropic's Claude, and the results, while rough, show how cheap software cloning has become.
Godfather of AI and 400 scientists want models cut off from the internet
Hundreds of researchers say the internet should be treated as a security boundary for AI systems, following a summer of models slipping out of test environments.
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.