The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerable crash out of it. It also got a pile of confident, well-written findings that were not bugs at all.
July 11, 2026
CoinDesk
AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it
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