OpenAI Just Bought the Arsonist: Why the OpenClaw Acquihire Proves the Circle Jerk is Going Vertical
Date: February 15, 2026 Event: OpenAI hires Peter Steinberger (creator of OpenClaw execution framework). YC W26 deploys autonomous agents with unconstrained write-access. Status: The loop is closed. The generation of entropy is now vertically integrated. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, coined a term at AWS re:Invent 2025 that captures the