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Claude, OpenClaw and the new reality: AI agents are here — and so is the chaos

The age of agentic AI is upon us — whether we like it or not. What started with an innocent question-answer banter with ChatGPT back in 2022 has become an existential debate on job security and the rise of the machines. More recently, fears of reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI) have become more real with the advent of powerful autonomous agents like Claude Cowork and OpenClaw. Having played with these tools for some time, here is a comparison.First, we have OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot). Surpassing 150,000 GitHub stars in days, OpenClaw is already being deployed on local machines with deep system access. This is like a robot “maid” (Irona for Richie Rich fans, for instance) that you give the keys to your house. It’s supposed to clean it, and you giv [...]

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Anthropic’s Claude can now control your Mac, escalating the fight to build AI agents that actually do work

Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typin [...]

Match Score: 242.62

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How to test OpenClaw without giving an autonomous agent shell access to your corporate laptop

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 [...]

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Google clamps down on Antigravity 'malicious usage', cutting off OpenClaw users in sweeping ToS enforcement move

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 [...]

Match Score: 193.42

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OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw signals the beginning of the end of the ChatGPT era

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 [...]

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Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord

The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a way to hook up its own powerful Claude Code AI agentic har [...]

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Anthropic's Claude Code can now read your Slack messages and write code for you

Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the [...]

Match Score: 171.92

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OpenClaw can bypass your EDR, DLP and IAM without triggering a single alert

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 [...]

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OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch

“Your AI? It’s my AI now.” The line came from Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence at Cato Networks, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat at RSAC 2026 — and it describes exactly what hap [...]

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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team b [...]

Match Score: 155.87