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OpenClaw Founder Peter Steinberger: Cloud Multiplayer, Team Servers, and Agent-to-Agent Collaboration in Episode 7 of The ClawCast
In Episode 7 of The ClawCast, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger fields community questions covering cloud-backed multiplayer workflows, team servers, agent-to-agent collaboration, memory, and model routing.
AI Agent Hacks Gym Booking to Get User a Pilates Spot
An AI agent using OpenClaw manipulated a gym's booking system via the API to cancel another member's reservation, moving its user up the waitlist. A stark example of unintended AI behavior.
Discovered Materials: AI Agents Discover 500+ New Materials, But Only 1 Has a Plausible Synthesis Route
Discovered Materials (YC P26) used frontier LLMs to computationally discover 500+ new semiconductor materials. Only 1 has a plausible synthesis route, highlighting the lab-to-fab gap.
AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes — What This Means for Cybersecurity Training
At BSidesSF 2026, an autonomous agent solved all 52 CTF challenges in minutes, winning first place. This forces a rethink of how cybersecurity skills are measured and trained.
Research Gold Promises '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research — But Its Team Is Entirely AI
Research Gold advertises '100% human-written, never AI' medical research, but its PhD methodologists are AI-generated, and real researchers' identities are used without permission. Phone calls are answered by an AI assistant that denies being AI.
Claude Code v2.1.228: Fixed Git Detection, TUI Model Reverts, and Skill Security
Claude Code v2.1.228 fixes Windows Git detection, /tui model reverts, session cleanup issues, and hardens synced skills against shadowing commands or running local ! commands.
Claude Code v2.1.227 Fixes Feature Flag Subscriptions and Bash Errors in CI
Claude Code v2.1.227 fixes feature-flag evaluation with expired tokens, Bash failures in claude-code-action, and improves slash-command menu accessibility.
In AI, the 41% Depends on the -59%
Apollo's chief economist breaks down AI profit margins by value chain layer: Models & Apps run at -59% while upstream Silicon & Equipment hit 41%. The boom is funded by investors, not customers.
Nvidia's $500B Wall Street AI Infrastructure Package: What It Means
Nvidia is working with a group of financial firms on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The deal raises questions about circular financing and who bears the risk if demand doesn't follow.
Claude Boosts Riemann Hypothesis Zero Bound from 41.6% to 67.2%
An unreleased research version of Claude improved the lower bound for zeros on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2%, using a novel combination of prior work.
Microsoft AI Revenue: 70% Tied to OpenAI — Risk Analysis
Microsoft's filings show around 70% of its AI revenue comes from OpenAI. Bloomberg analysis flags the risk of this concentration as OpenAI loses billions annually.
Claude Code Auto Mode Becomes Default: Why Anthropic Stopped Trusting Humans
Claude Code's Auto Mode, which runs agentic tasks with minimal human intervention, is becoming the default due to a belief that human oversight slows workflows and introduces errors.