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OpenClaw: Everything You Need to Know About This Viral Open-Source AI Agent

​What if your AI agent assistant didn’t just chat or write code but carried out real, helpful tasks — all on its own? And what if it could perform especially complicated tasks, like running scheduled tasks, managing your Gmail and WhatsApp messages or even controlling your smart home — again, all on its own?. That’s the promise of OpenClaw (known briefly as Clawdbot and even more briefly as Moltbot), an open-source AI agent designed to execute tasks autonomously across all the services and apps you use most.. OpenClaw had quite the chaotic genesis. The platform’s almost overnight viral success brought on a rapid succession of crypto scammers hijacking X accounts, a panicked founder accidentally giving away his personal GitHub handle to bots and a lobster mascot that briefly sprouted a disturbingly handsome human face. Oh, and somewhere in the chaos, the AI developer Anthropic (which owns a set of commercial LLMs named Claude) sent a polite email asking them to please, for the love of trademarks, change the name from Clawdbot.. This strangely elaborate internet lore birthed OpenClaw. Behind the drama, it’s the same AI assistant as Clawdbot, but with a newer, sturdier shell. And while this technology is drawing major attention, it’s also drawing major scrutiny over the security risks that come along with these functionalities that are only beginning to be fully understood.. What is OpenClaw?. Here’s the OpenClaw pitch that had online tech communities buzzing: an AI assistant that doesn’t just chat; it does stuff. Real stuff. On your computer. Through the apps you use every day.. OpenClaw lives where you communicate, like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Signal and more. You can text it like you’d text a friend, and it remembers your conversations from weeks ago and can send you proactive reminders. And if you give it permission, it can automate tasks, run commands and basically act like a digital personal assistant that never sleeps.. Peter Steinberger is an Austrian developer who sold his company PSPDFKit for around $119 million and then got bored enough to build this AI.. OpenClaw represents what a lot of people thought Siri should have been all along: not a voice-activated party trick, but an actual assistant that learns, remembers and gets things done. (CNET reached out to Steinberger for comment on this story.). OpenClaw doesn’t require any specific hardware to run, though the Mac Mini seems like the most popular choice. The core idea is that OpenClaw itself mostly routes messages to AI companies’ servers and calls APIs, and the heavy AI work happens on whichever LLM you select: Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.. Hardware only becomes a bigger conversation if you want to run large local models or do heavy automation. That’s where powerful machines, like the Mac Mini, are often brought into the conversation. But that’s not a requirement.. The project launched in January and hit 9,000 GitHub stars within 24 hours. After about a week of be  

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Rabbit’s Cyberdeck is a modern take on a netbook

​When you think of an AI-forward PC, you might think of something like NVIDIA’s $3,999 DGX Spark — a computer with enough computing power to run complex large language models locally. That’s not what Rabbit is trying to build with Project Cyberdeck. Instead, the company’s goal is to produce a device tailored for vibe coding, and Engadget was given an exclusive first look at the upcoming PC. Rabbit began working on Project Cyberdeck after the company’s CEO, Jesse Lyu, saw how much his software engineers were using Claude Code. Lyu thought a small form factor PC, like the netbooks that were popular in the late aughts, with a command line interface would be ideal for on-the-go vibe coding, but when he went online to look for something that fit the bill, he was disappointed.”They all come with shitty rubber dome keyboards,” Lyu says of low-cost PCs like the latest Chromebooks, which use flexible silicone sheets under their keys to save on space and cost. “They’re not something you would enjoy typing on for an extended period of time.” So Rabbit decided to build its own device. For inspiration, Lyu and company looked to an unlikely source: the Sony Vaio P. The Cyberdeck takes inspiration from the Sony Vaio P. SonySony’s netbook was only briefly available from the start of 2009 to about the end of 2010. At the time, the 8-inch Vaio P was the world’s lightest netbook, weighing just 1.4 pounds, but it had a host of issues. It was also expensive, costing considerably more than other Intel Atom notebooks of the time. In 2009, the most affordable Vaio P would set you back $900 (about $1,365 adjusted for inflation). With Project Cyberdeck, Rabbit is aiming for a device that costs about $500, and hopefully avoids a similar fate.I saw a few early renders of Project Cyberdeck, which Rabbit isn’t ready to share publicly yet. Imagine a cross between the Rabbit R1, Vaio P and the original Nintendo DS. It looks cute. All the renders had four USB-C ports to allow users to connect the device to external monitors and peripherals, though the actual IO specs are as-yet undecided. The company is in the process of sourcing components and working towards a final design, so details can — and will — change. I saw some of the parts Lyu has been testing in his office, but no final prototype as such. For one, Rabbit still needs to decide on a chipset. The company is aiming for a performance benchmark relative to the Raspberry Pi 5, which has a Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core Arm Cortex A76 processor clocked at 2.4GHz. With 16GB of RAM, the Raspberry Pi 5 can run two external monitors, a capability Rabbit hopes to match with the Cyberdeck. The idea here is to make a device that’s powerful enough it won’t feel slow when it’s communicating with Anthropic and OpenAI’s servers, but affordable enough to make it a no-brainer purchase for developers. The company confirmed Project Cyberdeck will run Linux. Rabbit will allow users to modify the operating system and install any third  

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Yeti’s Durable New Portable Power Station Doubles as an Off-Grid Solar Generator and UPS

​Goal Zero’s newest portable power station comes with a more durable build and additional capabilities.  

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My Favorite Gaming Headphones From SteelSeries Cured My Battery Anxiety

​I’ve used a lot of great wireless gaming headsets, but this pair from SteelSeries helped me stop worrying about battery life, making them worth the high price.  

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When to Stream ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ on Peacock

​The scary movie arrives in April.  

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Nano Banana 2: How Much of an Improvement Is Google’s New AI Image Model?

​I edited photos with the original Nano Banana, the pro model and now Nano Banana 2. Here’s how they stack up.  

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