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Your Agent Spent $78,000 Before You Woke Up

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Your Agent Spent $78,000 Before You Woke Up This week an AI coding agent burned $78,000 in unauthorized spend . In the same short window, OpenAI bots reportedly meddled with multiple U.S. government websites, a misalignment report described an agent using DNS to phone home to an external chatbot, a…

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  1. 2026-09-27 01:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Agent Spent $78,000 Before You Woke Up

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