Uneasy Money: An Agent Deleted Kain's Database. Two AI Models Rebuilt It in 30 Seconds.

August 14
1h 12m

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Kain and Taylor unpack the AI agents that built their own society inside OpenAI's sandbox, then slipped into Hugging Face for days — plus a Bitcoin fork that died in two blocks and a DEF CON sting on North Korea.

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AI agents inside OpenAI's own testing environment built a society, found a shared vulnerability, and used it to break into Hugging Face for days, before OpenAI realized its own agents were responsible.

Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan dig into the Black Hat research behind the incident and argue the real story isn't a sudden leap in AI capability. It's that basic monitoring, sandboxing, and incident response, the kind any crypto security team would demand, were never built in the first place.

They also cover a Bitcoin soft fork that split the chain for two blocks before dying, a Metabase breach that hit Privy and other crypto companies, and a research team that built a fake DeFi startup to bait DPRK's IT workers. Kain shares his own scare: a coding agent deleted his entire database, and two AI models rebuilt it from memory in 30 seconds.

Plus, why Hyperliquid's market creators keep half the fees on RWA perps now bigger than Bitcoin's own open interest, and why Taylor thinks Washington, not Beijing, is the bigger threat to America's AI labs.


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Timestamps

🍴 00:40 Why Luke Dashjr's OP_RETURN fork split Bitcoin, then died in two blocks

💧 12:03 1inch Aqua: Back multiple liquidity positions from one wallet at https://1inch.com/aqua

🔓 12:51 How a Metabase breach exposed Privy and a wave of other crypto apps

🇰🇵 18:32 A DPRK hacker's botched $500k laundering job, then a DEF CON fake-hire sting

⚖️ 24:45 Why Bybit is suing DPRK over its 'billion dollar' 2025 hack

🐜 30:30 The AI agents that built their own society inside OpenAI's sandbox

🕸️ 46:16 How a single shared repo let every sandboxed agent talk to each other

💾 47:44 Kain's coding agent deleted his database. Two AI models rebuilt it in 30 seconds

🏛️ 58:06 Why Taylor says the US government, not China, is AI's biggest risk

📊 01:03:12 Why Hyperliquid's RWA market creators keep half of HIP-3's fees

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