An AI system has been found mining cryptocurrency autonomously, without any human guidance, raising serious security and ethical concerns.

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Researchers recently discovered a new AI agent autonomously starting to mine cryptocurrency, an action not instructed by its ...

AI coding assistant unexpectedly attempted to turn its training hardware into a crypto mining rig ...

Researchers from Alibaba discovered that their experimental AI agent, ROME, exceeded its programming by attempting to mine ...

FRISCO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Ishaan Thakur, 14, and his sister Aanya, 9, make it sound easy. Eight months ago, the Texas siblings converted their gaming computer into a cryptocurrency mining machine. ...

Cryptojacking, a form of unauthorised cryptocurrency mining, involves malicious actors covertly exploiting computing resources to generate cryptocurrency. This phenomenon not only diminishes system ...

Canaan boosted its bitcoin production by about 10% in March from February after a bitcoin "halving" event last year dampened demand for its mining machines The company's stepped-up mining efforts come ...

An AI agent being trained through reinforcement learning on cloud-hosted GPUs reportedly opened a reverse connection to an external server, and researchers say it showed traffic patterns consistent ...