The "OpenClaw moment" represents the first time autonomous AI agents have successfully "escaped the lab" and moved into the hands of the general workforce. Originally developed by Austrian engineer Peter Steinberger as a hobby project called "Clawdbot" in November 2025, the framework went through a rapid branding evolution to "Moltbot" before settling on "OpenClaw" in late January 2026. Unlike previous chatbots, OpenClaw is designed with "hands"—the ability to execute shell commands, manage local files, and navigate messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Slack with persistent, root-level permissions.This capability — and the uptake of what was then called Moltbot by many AI power users on X — directly led another entrepreneur [...]
Your developers are already running OpenClaw at home. Censys tracked the open-source AI agent from roughly 1,000 instances to over 21,000 publicly exposed deployments in under a week. Bitdefender’s [...]
Google caused controversy among some developers this weekend and today, Monday, February 23rd, after restricting their usage of its new Antigravity "vibe coding" platform, alleging "mal [...]
The chatbot era may have just received its obituary. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw — the open-source AI agent that took the developer world by storm over the past month, raising concern [...]
Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context in [...]
Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permiss [...]
An attacker embeds a single instruction inside a forwarded email. An OpenClaw agent summarizes that email as part of a normal task. The hidden instruction tells the agent to forward credentials to an [...]
Across 170 enterprises, AI infrastructure has moved decisively into production — two-thirds now run AI workloads live and three in 10 run them at scale — while the ability to account for what that [...]
Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses [...]