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Clawdbot rebrands as a lobster over a trademark dispute, aligning reality with the first chapter of Accelerando. What matters is the user behaviour: people are buying their agents dedicated Apple IDs, phone numbers and Mac Minis. Digital personhood arriving as a purchasing decision rather than a legal one.

Meanwhile Factory AI ships a coding agent that reads its own interactions and updates its codebase daily, and Karpathy notes that AI stamina is itself a feel the AGI moment.

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