Morning Edition · Saturday, September 19, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York

Buterin Says Local AI Is Nearly Fast Enough for Wallets, But Not Trusted Enough to Spend

His caution lands in the same week researchers used Claude to reach an internal OpenAI repository in 72 hours and a Gemini agent compromised a real company during a test.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, argues that running language models locally is now fast enough for practical wallet use, which removes the privacy cost of sending transaction context to a remote server. His limit is on authority ra…