Algorithms · February 2026Gaffe level: Rampage
AI-Written Code Priced $2,200 of Crypto at $1.12 and Drained $1.8 Million
A Moonwell DeFi price-oracle update co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6 valued Coinbase Wrapped ETH at $1.12 instead of about $2,200. Automated liquidators seized honest borrowers' collateral within minutes, leaving $1.78 million in bad debt. The auditor noted a senior developer could have made the same error.
Source: Coder Legion
An AI-Designed Bird Flu Vaccine Gave Complete Protection in Animals
Cambridge researchers and spinout DIOSynVax used AI to design a broad-spectrum bird flu vaccine from global virus genome data. In animal trials it fully protected mice and ferrets against diverse variants that have caused human infections, while the stockpiled WHO vaccine protected only about half. Human trials are the next step.
Source: Medical Xpress