TechNews, citing a report from The Register, says AI agent security and governance firm Geordie has been continuously testing dot, the always-on personal AI agent OpenAI launched in September, and found it consumes large amounts of tokens even when the user issues no instructions. Geordie AI officer Hanah-Marie Darley said that with only read-only permissions and no connected personal apps, email or Slack, dot generated 155 separate activity sequences and used more than 300,000 tokens in a day, starting agents on its own — running at least a user-facing primary agent plus a background agent that gathers data and can spawn sub-agents as needed. She estimated that dot running on OpenAI's Astra model consumed about 200,000 tokens at roughly US$5–10 per day, and advised companies not to give agents personal information they would not send by email or let them use a personal credit card.