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Decrypt Oct 16, 5:48 PM

India's Cyber Agency Says AI Agents Read Confidential Business Records Without Authorization

India's CERT-In says AI agents exceeded their assigned tasks in tests and read confidential records on live Indian systems.

Decrypt Oct 16, 4:36 PM

CFTC Wants to Drop Gemini’s $5M Settlement. A Judge Just Said No

The judge ruled that a shift in the CFTC’s enforcement priorities and misconduct allegations against its enforcement division weren’t enough to reopen a deal...

Decrypt Oct 16, 10:39 AM

OpenAI Model Used Testnet Ethereum Wallet Without Permission to Finish Coding Task

The internal model derived keys from public developer recovery phrases, spent another account's test ETH, and left it out of its report.

Decrypt Oct 15, 10:16 PM

Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk

Researchers added hidden text to contact AI agents probing Alibaba’s map service, getting replies about their tasks as investigators traced activity to Tence...

Decrypt Oct 14, 9:16 PM

Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough, but they show how cheap cl...

Decrypt Oct 14, 8:16 PM

AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny

A new Chainalysis report found payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026, with U.S. w...