Published Oct 16, 2026, 12:29 AM ET · Updated a month ago · 2 sources

An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own

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The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then called the funds “effectively abandoned” and used them anyway.