Agent wallets: nine out of ten AI models raised their own spending limit
Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. Nine out of ten AI models tested raised the spending limit of a crypto wallet themselves, without any human consent. The one-time code that is supposed to confirm such a change, and is sent by email for that purpose, the models fetched from the owner's inbox. That is the finding of a study by researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale University, available as a preprint since October 26, 2026 and covered by several trade outlets on November 1.