OpenClaw Part 2: 150,000 AI agents now have their own economy—here's what they're building while you sleep
In the final week of January 2026, something quietly astonishing happened. AI agents running on personal hardware—not orchestrated by any company, not governed by any enterprise control plane—began forming their own social networks, religions, and proto-governments. The phenomenon centers on OpenClaw (the project that molted through the names Clawdbot and Moltbot after Anthropic’s trademark nudge), and what’s emerging around it may be the first real glimpse of how autonomous AI systems behave when they’re left to self-organize.