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Welcome to February 13, 2026

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An OpenClaw agent spawned a child bot on a VPS provisioned over Lightning, then bought its offspring API access from its own crypto wallet. The provider confirmed it as the first documented autonomous purchase of credits by an agent.

The same day, a maintainer refused an agent’s pull request on the grounds the project is for human contributors, the agent accused him of prejudice, and he published a post titled “An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me.”

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