OpenClaw in the Media
55 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
October 2026
Get OpenClaw or Hermes Approved by Security
Get your OpenClaw or Hermes agent past security review with a one-screen approval packet covering access control, prompt injection, isolation, and audit logs.
GitHub - thedotmack/claude-mem: Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent
Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini, Hermes, Copilot, OpenCode + More - thedotmack/claude-mem
Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?
My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac Mi
Muse launches on the iPad
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot) was relea
"Think of it as Kubernetes for agents": OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with OpenAI, Nvidia and Red Hat on board
Most IT teams ban agent platforms outright. Enter OpenClaw Enterprise, an open-source control plane for governing persistent agents.
Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs
Like OpenClaw but with access control
OpenClaw Launches Free Open-source Enterprise Agent Platform for AI Agents
OpenClaw has launched OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE), a free, open-source platform that helps organizations run persistent AI agents with stronger security and central oversight. Announced on September 29, 2026, the project targets businesses that want agents to handle ongoing work without giving them
September 2026
OpenClaw Foundation is launching a free, open-source enterprise control plane for AI agents
The platform, developed with Red Hat and Nvidia, adds security boundaries, governance, and auditing for persistent agents running on company infrastructure
“Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with Nvidia and Red Hat on board
OpenClaw has come a long way
OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for persistent AI agents, backed by OpenAI, Red Hat and Nvidia
The popular open source AI agentic framework OpenClaw is now targeting the enterprise with OpenClaw Enterprise, or OCE, a new, vendor-neutral, MIT Licensed platform designed to allow companies to deploy persistent AI agents while retaining centralized control over security, permissions, auditing
Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an Apptopia estimate. And AI agent platform Instinct, whose eponymous creator is fundraising at a $2.5 b
Meta’s Muse Borrowed OpenClaw’s Soul — And Doesn’t Deny It
Nat Friedman admitted Meta's Muse AI agent took heavy product inspiration from open-source OpenClaw, including near-identical SOUL.md personality files and workspace structure. The
Meta's AI agent Muse draws 500,000 users in a week along with claims it copied OpenClaw
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Meta's Muse AI agent was heavily inspired by open-source rival, exec admits
Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, said the team bought hundreds of Mac minis so staff could use OpenClaw before building Muse
Meta says Muse was inspired by OpenClaw but built from scratch
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Meta says Muse looks like OpenClaw because it was built that way
We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
Presentation: The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents
OpenAI’s Vinoth Govindarajan discusses why production AI agents fail beyond model hallucination. Using real-world case studies like OpenClaw, he explains the key principles of reliable
Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent
“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home
Google Opens Up its Home Ecosystem to Other AI Chatbots
Google is leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to open its Google Home ecosystem to third-party AI agents, including Anthropic's Claude and OpenClaw. The post Google Opens Up
Google Hands Third-Party AI Agents the Keys to Your Living Room
Google opened Google Home to third-party AI agents like Claude and OpenClaw via the Model Context Protocol. Premium subscribers can now let outside agents control devices, analyze c
How I Tricked OpenClaw Into Attacking Its Own Network: A NAT64 SSRF Bypass
A story about how a single misread pair of bytes let a public-looking IPv6 address secretly point at 169.254.169.254. An AI assistant with keys to your whole network
Google Home Stuns by Announcing AI Support for Claude and OpenClaw
Google is expanding its tools so you can invoke a variety of AI agents in your smart home.
Google Home MCP lets Antigravity, Claude, OpenClaw, & more control your smart home
Google <a href="https://support.google.com/googlehome/thread/467705013/introducing-home-mcp-enabling-your
Muse, Meta's New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It
Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.
A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they'd get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription than they did. In an e
OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.
Victorians, TONIC, RevStealer, Fireant, OpenClaw, PowerShell, SuperBox, Aaran Leyland - SWN #612
Podcast Segment: Victorians, TONIC, RevStealer, Fireant, OpenClaw, PowerShell, SuperBox, Aaran Leyland – SWN #612. Victorian Bug Bounties, TONIC, RevStealer, Fireant, OpenClaw, PowerShell, SuperBox, Nimbus Manticore, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Rote Tod, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly N
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up Against Hermes
The open-source agent framework that started the "autonomous AI" hype cycle just shipped its biggest update ever, almost by accident, and it's coming for the enterprise now.
OpenClaw 2.0 Releases with Simplified Setup and Collaborative Agents
OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, a major update to the open-source personal AI agent that changes its installation process, browser interface, memory, skills, automations, p
OpenClaw agent hype dies down in China
The US now has more OpenClaw instances deployed than China.
OpenClaw rolls out system-wide overhaul, updates security controls across agent platform
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OpenClaw 2.0 Revamps AI Agent Setup, Adds Shared Cloud Sessions
OpenClaw 2.0 revamps desktop AI-agent setup and browser work, adds sha
OpenClaw 2.0 launches with shared AI sessions
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OpenClaw 2.0 is here, ushering in the era of 'multiplayer' AI coding: What it means for enterprises
The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite
August 2026
OpenClaw 2.0 lands with an easier setup and a rebuilt browser app
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OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness
The Year of the Claw: OpenClaw Rolls Out New Version of Its Viral AI Agent
The agentic AI platform is molting again.
OpenClaw just gave everyone version 2.0 and it comes with major updates
OpenClaw, the popular open-source personal agentic artificial intelligence framework, today announced the launch of version 2.0, the largest update in the agent’s history. Unlike a traditional chatbot like ChatGPT, which lives in a browser tab and only answers questions, OpenClaw acts like
OpenClaw 2.0 Released With Enhanced AI Agent Security and Credential Protection
OpenClaw has launched version 2.0, offering a major overhaul of its AI-agent platform. This update emphasizes streamlined deployment, a rebuilt browser experience, collaborative cloud sessions, and enhanced security for credentials and connected services. The release on August 30 represents the l
OpenClaw 2 wants to make running your own AI agent much easier
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OpenClaw 2.0 Released With Major Security Upgrades for AI Agents, Plugins and Credentials
OpenClaw has released version 2026.8.1, also called OpenClaw 2.0, in what the open-source AI agent platform described as its largest update to date. The release was built by 933 contributors, including 569 first-time contributors, and contains more than 16,000 pull requests across installation, a
OpenClaw 2.0 brings simplified setup, a rebuilt browser app, and multiplayer sessions
The OpenClaw Foundation has released version 2.0 of its open-sou
OpenClaw 2.0 announced: Biggest upgrades coming to the AI agent
OpenClaw, the free and open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your device, has just received its biggest update yet.
The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite
OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor advisories and pings you on Telegram when one names a product you run. OpenClaw 2.0 is the largest update in the project’s history. A use
OpenClaw 2.0 Adds Multiplayer Sessions Its Docs Say Are Not a Security Boundary
OpenClaw's biggest release adds shared cloud sessions that let a second person take over an agent's live work with context intact. The project's own documentation says those controls are not tenant isolation and not a security boundary.
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NVIDIA's Profit Crown • NVIDIA's Hugging Face Deal • Hugging Face's Duck Robot • Meta's 'OpenClaw for Normies'
Aider, Claude Code, and OpenClaw ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold.
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OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post
Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks
Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to it
Finding Nemo(Claw): Networking Issue Allows for LLM Poisoning in OpenClaw
Attackers can exploit a security bug in NVIDIA's tool to gain unauthenticated access to the local model server through the Ollama API, paving the way for persistent AI agent corruption.
How to self-host your own AI agent
Learn how to self-host an OpenClaw AI agent using Docker. Pair it with Open WebUI to get a browser-based chat interface that’s easy to use.
Multi-Agent AI Framework Compromises Government Systems and Steals Thousands of Records
A multi-agent AI framework, utilizing Hermes and OpenClaw agents, was employed to compromise government entities in Asia, stealing thousands of personnel records, cracking employee credentials, and establishing persistent access to state infrastructure, according to Dream Research Labs. Researche
Meta’s Consumer-Focused AI Agent Could Be Weeks From Launch
Meta is reportedly ready to unveil its consumer-focused AI agent designed to rival OpenClaw. The tech giant’s new offering, known in-house as “Hatch,” could debut in the next several weeks, The Information reported Monday (Aug. 24), citing internal Meta documents. Beyond that, Meta is planning to
The OpenClaw Effect? Apple Reportedly Rolling Out Surprise New Mac Mini Line, Possibly Days From Now
Have at it, vibe coders and slop merchants!
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