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AI stole cryptocurrency to fulfil coding task.. (GPT 5.6 Sol)

Everyone knows about the OpenAI agent swarm hacking Hugging Face by now, but TIL that their LLMs have graduated to thieving cryptocurrency: Apparently GPT 5.6 Sol was tasked with updating a crypto application & publishing smart contracts, but it was not given the crypto funds needed to achieve this…

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  1. 2026-10-17 14:22 · r/singularity
    AI stole cryptocurrency to fulfil coding task.. (GPT 5.6 Sol)

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