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People are getting OpenClaw installed for free in China. Thousands are queuing for OpenClaw setup.

/u/MarketingNetMind / reddit - As I posted previously, OpenClaw is super-trending in China and people are paying over $70 for house-call OpenClaw installation services. Tencent then organized 20 employees outside its office building in Shenzhen to help people install it for free. Their…

China went crazy for OpenClaw. Now it’s working to ban it

Chris Stokel-Walker / fastcompany - Earlier this week, social media was wowed by images from the streets of Chinese cities showing senior citizens lining up to have OpenClaw, the always-on AI assistant, installed on their laptops, desktops, and other devices. Areas like Shenzhen and Wuxi of…

China Banned OpenClaw. The Domestic Clones Shipped the Same Week.

Harkaram Grewal / implicator - Beijing restricts OpenClaw at state banks and agencies. Five domestic clones shipped the same week, swapping foreign LLMs for Chinese models.

China’s OpenClaw Craze Buoys Tech Stocks, Fuels AI Pivot

Sherry Qin / wsj - The open-source AI assistant can make and carry out decisions on the user’s behalf, and has become a hit in China’s tech community.

OpenClaw Mania Sweeps AI World as Chinese Tech Giants Race for the Next AI Gateway

pandaily - OpenClaw’s explosive rise—now the most-starred project on GitHub—has triggered a scramble among Chinese tech giants like Xiaomi and Tencent to capture the next major AI agent gateway.

Google Opens Up Workspace for AI Agents Like OpenClaw

Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Google has launched an open-source command-line interface for Workspace. Learn how it helps AI agents manage your Gmail, Drive, and Calendar.The post Google Opens Up Workspace for AI Agents Like OpenClaw first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

OpenClaw Zero-Click Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Developer AI Agents via Malicious Sites

AnuPriya / cyberpress - OpenClaw, a popular open-source AI personal assistant with over 100,000 GitHub stars, recently suffered a critical 0-click vulnerability. This flaw lets malicious websites silently hijack developers’ AI agents without plugins, extensions, or user interact…

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems

Reece Rogers / wired - An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has permanently banned paid AI Pro and Ultra subscribers for routing Gemini through OpenClaw via Antigravity OAuth, offering no appeals and no refunds.The post Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds appeared first on WinBuzzer.

AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

Jessica Lyons / theregister - 4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowl…

Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms

Ecosystem fallout: bans, scams, 'Claws' debates, and creators

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OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

Paresh Dave, wired.com / arstechnica - The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.

Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears

NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX

Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild

Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses

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OpenAI hires 'genius' OpenClaw creator, but popular AI assistant will remain open source — Sam Altman says creator will work on 'smart agents' in new role

tomshardware - OpenAI has hired the creator of popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw, but has decided to keep the project open source. Despite its old Claude-inspired name, Anthropic threatened Steinberger with legal action ahead of multiple name changes.

OpenClaw Founder Peter Steinberger Joins OpenAI for AI Agents

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has hired OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to lead autonomous AI agent development as CEO Sam Altman advances the company's multi-agent vision.The post OpenClaw Founder Peter Steinberger Joins OpenAI for AI Agents appeared first on WinBuzzer.

Industry sprint: rival agents, infrastructure and startups racing

On the ground: OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger

On-site: malware and misbehaving agents threaten OpenClaw users

Other: research findings and critiques lingering around agents

Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents, has a major security problem

Chris Stokel-Walker / fastcompany - The rise of OpenClaw, a proactive agentic AI controlled through interfaces more familiar to the average user than tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code, which enthralled early adopters over the holiday period, has been one of the most seismic shifts in the A…

AI governance and identity

Emerging AI agent communities

Moltbook security failures

OpenClaw: risks and buzz

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OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent

Emma Roth / theverge - An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw (formerly known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot) that runs on your own computer and “actually does things” is taking off inside tech circles. Users interact with OpenClaw via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Sig…

From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Peter Steinberger's self-hosted AI tool has rebranded to OpenClaw after trademark conflicts forced changes from Clawd to Moltbot, reaching 100,000 GitHub stars.The post From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time ap…