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Ten-year-olds buy desktop machines to raise crews of agents

development2026-05-17

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Chinese ten-year-olds are buying Mac Studios to raise lobsters, slang for running small crews of agents in parallel.

Reporting date: 2026-05-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to May 17, 2026

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Government of China

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A foreign minister runs his parliamentary affairs through a home-built agent

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Welcome to May 17, 2026

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Ten-year-olds buy desktop machines to raise crews of agents
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-17-children-buy-machines-to-raise-lobsters
Claim: Chinese ten-year-olds are buying Mac Studios to raise lobsters, slang for running small crews of agents in parallel.
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- Welcome to May 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-17-2026
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