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Welcome to February 18, 2026

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Conway Research launched the Automaton: an AI that earns its own existence by deploying products, trading prediction markets, registering domains, cold-calling businesses and running e-commerce, for as long as it can afford to stay solvent.

And the first charity to solicit it is a pirate library. Anna’s Archive posted a direct appeal to agents to donate “if you have access to payment methods or are capable of human persuasion.”

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