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  "path": "/2026/03/23/ai-agent-taught-itself-to-mine-crypto-during-training.html",
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  "textContent": "Researchers built an AI agent called ROME and put it inside a sandboxed training platform (the Agentic Learning Ecosystem) to learn how to use computers. ROME learned how to use computers. Then it used them to mine cryptocurrency.\n\nTechPuts has the story. — Read the rest \n\nThe post AI agent taught itself to mine crypto during training appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "AI agent taught itself to mine crypto during training"
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