The Daily: AI agent 'accidentally' sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy, Based raises $11.5M in Pantera-led round, and more

• The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller - security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds

User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller - security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds

• User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller - security flaw reveals floor pl

OpenAI employee's AI agent 'accidentally' sent $442K to beggar

OpenAI employee's AI agent 'accidentally' sent $442K to beggar

• OpenAI employee’s AI agent ‘accidentally’ sent $442K to beggar One theory is that Lobstar Wilde tried to send 52,439 LOBSTAR tokens but misinterpreted Solana’s UI and sent 52.4 m

FinTech · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 278 words

AI agent created by OpenAI dev 'accidentally' sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy

• The recipient quickly sold the entire stack of Lobstar tokens for a profit of about $40,000, though the same amount of tokens is now worth over $400,000.

Hobby coder accidentally creates vacuum robot army

Hobby coder accidentally creates vacuum robot army

• Hobby coder accidentally creates vacuum robot army Sammy Azdoufal wanted to steer his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. • Like any good maker, he thought it would be fun to dri

Threat Intelligence · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 226 words