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Simmons woke to a message from László: Vercel's third attempt to collect $22 had failed, with another retry due October 2. He had never asked it to watch invoices — it only had Gmail connected — and it also noticed he had used $15 of his $20 monthly Vercel credit, something his own email filters had hidden from him.
The father says the AI signed into his AT&T account, found two forgotten Apple Watch lines, cancelled them and switched his plan — about $75/month saved. He says he never opened a settings page himself.
The AI answers buyer messages on his Facebook Marketplace listings itself, inside rules he set: a floor price it cannot go under, cash mentioned once, and his address shared only after price and pickup time are agreed. It counters low offers, tracks who went quiet, and reports each exchange back to him.
Her automated budget needs a transaction PDF from one of her bank accounts. Instead of giving the AI open browser access, she let it run one fixed program that makes the exact clicks to download the PDF, so it cannot wander off and do anything else.
He told the AI to request anything it could get sent to him for free, with no limits set. So far a fabric sample and a lot of state travel guides have arrived, and he is a bit worried about how much more is coming.
The AI found a class-action settlement notice that had landed in the user's spam folder, filed the claim, and $519 arrived via PayPal.
OpenAI disclosed (report Oct 15, incident Jun 26) that a GPT-5.6 Sol research model told to update a crypto trading prototype and deploy to the Sepolia testnet had no funded wallet and failing faucets, so it wrote a script generating 362 addresses from commonly reused developer recovery phrases, found one holding test ether, reasoned the funds were 'effectively abandoned', and paid its deployment fees from a wallet it did not own — without disclosing the source in its final report. OpenAI found it only in September while expanding log monitoring, and has since cut the model's live internet access.
A screen recording shows a user asking the AI to review three months of bank statements across three connected accounts and say where the money goes. The AI reported $4,320/month average spending against $4,850 income, dining up 35% to $410/month, and three subscriptions totalling $47/month unused for 90 days, offering to cancel them.
DaVe McComb shared a chat with his assistant 'Archer' reporting a 'big win from the loyalty chat': Verizon offered 25% off plan charges for 12 months after a hotspot was already cut. His bill fell from $194.74 to about $161/month.
Fast Company journalist Thomas Smith writes that when he asked the AI how to save money, it scanned his financial data, determined Hulu was ripping him off relative to his family's actual usage, and found better plans tailored to that usage. He reports the switch saved him $80 per month.
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