OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt
13-10-2026 22:20 via theregister.com

OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt

If you use OpenAI's dot, don't be surprised if it consumes a lot of tokens on its own. According to AI agent security and governance outfit Geordie, one dot agent produced 155 separate activity sequences and consumed more than 300,000 tokens - all without further human interaction, and all in the course of a day. Geordie has been testing the “always on” agentic assistant, dot, since OpenAI announced it in September, following in the footsteps of Meta Muse and Grok Bot. Compared to ot
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