Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant Muse was built from scratch, but its product design was heavily inspired by the open-source agent OpenClaw, according to Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that Friedman addressed growing comparisons between the two tools after users identified similarly named configuration files and closely …
Open-source AI platform OpenClaw has released version 2.0, its largest update so far. The release combines a simpler installation process, a redesigned browser app, and shared cloud sessions that let several people work with the same AI agent. According to the OpenClaw Foundation, 933 contributors worked on the update, which includes more than 16,000 pull …
Microsoft Scout is an always-on AI agent that manages emails, calendar conflicts, and internal messages on behalf of office workers. Reece Rogers reports for WIRED that Microsoft announced Scout at its Build developer conference. Scout is built on top of OpenClaw, an AI tool that attracted early adopters in San Francisco at the start of …
A new generation of AI tools is reshaping how software is built and, according to their most devoted users, how work itself is done. Steven Levy reports for WIRED on the rapid rise of AI agents, tracing how two tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and the open-source project OpenClaw — have ignited what many in …
Google is developing a new AI agent for its Gemini platform that can perform tasks independently on behalf of users. Hilary Langley reports for Business Insider that the agent, internally named “Remy,” is currently being tested by Google employees. According to an internal document reviewed by Business Insider, Remy runs within a staff-only version of …
Tencent has opened an international beta for QClaw, an artificial intelligence agent product built by its PC Manager team. T. K. Lin reports for KrASIA that the tool is designed for non-technical users and allows them to deploy and operate AI agents through messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram, without any terminal commands or …
Nvidia has unveiled NemoClaw, a software stack that integrates with OpenClaw, the autonomous AI agent platform that became one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in recent history. The announcement came at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose. NemoClaw is not a replacement for OpenClaw. It functions as an enterprise-ready distribution of the platform, installing …
Perplexity has introduced two new AI agent products at its Ask 2026 developer conference in San Francisco. The announcements signal the company’s move beyond consumer search into enterprise software. The first product, Perplexity Computer, is a cloud-based AI agent that the company now also launched for enterprise customers. It coordinates approximately 20 AI models from …
ChatGPT remains the dominant consumer AI product globally, but competitors are gaining ground fast. Olivia Moore writes for Andreessen Horowitz that ChatGPT now reaches 900 million weekly active users, up by 500 million over the past year, meaning more than 10 percent of the global population uses the tool every week. Despite that lead, Google’s …
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform designed for artificial intelligence agents, and will bring its founders into the company’s AI research division. The deal brings Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. The pair is expected to start on …