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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 give it the necessary autonomy to take actions and manage your belongings (files and data) as it pleases. The whole purpose is to perform the task at hand — inbox triaging, auto-replies, content curation, trav
IQVIA (IQV) Launches IQVIA.ai Unified Agentic AI Platform with Nvidia
Developers using LLM APIs, what are your biggest frustrations?
General AI
Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use
AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.
Suno is a music copyright nightmare
AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people's songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect, but it turns out that Suno's copyright filters are incredibly easy to fool. With minimal effort and some free software, Suno will spit out AI-generated imitations of popular songs like Beyoncé's "Freedom," Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," and Aqua's "Barbie Girl" that are alarmingly close to the original. Most people will likely be able to tell the dif … Read the full story at The Verge.
Why Li Auto (LI) Is Up 5.8% After March Delivery Rebound And New EV-Tech Unveiling
In March 2026, Li Auto reported deliveries of 41,053 vehicles, lifting cumulative deliveries to 1,635,357 as production bottlenecks eased and the Li i6 alone surpassed 24,000 monthly units. The company’s unveiling of its MindVLA autonomous driving foundation model at NVIDIA GTC 2026, alongside plans to launch an all-new Li L9 in the second quarter, highlights a push to pair higher volumes with in-house software and hardware advances. Next, we’ll examine how March’s restored delivery...
The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review
AI tools can speed up journalism until they backfire. Two recent cases show what happens when writers don't understand how their AI tools work: copied passages and made-up quotes. The article The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review appeared first on The Decoder.
Grammarly’s sloppelganger saga
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the ups and downs of AI, follow Stevie Bonifield. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Most people probably know Grammarly for its browser extension that suggests how to spruce up your emails, but over the past few years, it's been eyeing bigger ambitions. In October, the company formerly known as Grammarly made a public pivot to rebrand as an AI company called Superhuman. The new name was adopted from Superhuman Mail, an AI email platform that Grammarly acquired i … Read the full story at The Verge.
Foxconn first-quarter revenue jumps, company cautions on geopolitics
Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported a 29.7% on-year rise in first-quarter revenue on strong demand for artificial intelligence products, though it cautioned about "volatile" global politics. Revenue for Nvidia's biggest server maker and Apple's top iPhone assembler jumped to T$2.13 trillion ($66.60 billion), Foxconn said in a statement on Sunday. Smart consumer electronics, which includes iPhones, posted "significant" growth thanks to new product launches, the company said.
Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm
Reinforcement learning hits a wall with reasoning models because every token gets the same reward. A new algorithm from Alibaba's Qwen team fixes this by weighting each step based on how much it shapes what comes next, doubling the length of thought processes in the process. The article Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm appeared first on The Decoder.
Orchestra – the first AI-native research IDE
Article URL: https://www.orchestra-research.com/perspectives/introducing-new-orchestra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644877 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Astros rack up 18 hits as Tatsuya Imai gets first win
Imai threw 5⅔ scoreless innings with nine strikeouts to earn his first career major league win.
Study maps developer frustration over "AI slop" as a "tragedy of the commons" in software development
A qualitative study looks at how developers perceive and push back against low-quality AI content, or "slop," in software development. The critics describe a "tragedy of the commons" where individual productivity gains come at the cost of reviewers and the open-source community. The article Study maps developer frustration over "AI slop" as a "tragedy of the commons" in software development appeared first on The Decoder.
Meet a former VC who has a plan to prepare American students for an AI-disrupted future
For years, Ted Dintersmith has been sounding the alarm that American schools don’t adequately prepare children for the future. Artificial intelligence will be an inflection point, he said.
AI angst mutates into ‘FOBO’ as Fear of Becoming Obsolete takes over American workforces
EY's Joe Depa says he sees a split in staff. There's "high adoption, right out of the gate" for juniors but senior workers "are somewhat resistant."
AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds
A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI benchmarks, and that splitting your annotation budget the right way matters just as much as the budget itself. The article AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds appeared first on The Decoder.
AI chatbot traffic grows seven times faster than social media but still trails by a factor of four
AI chatbot traffic is growing seven times faster than social media, but still has four times less total traffic, a Similarweb analysis shows. The data reveals differences in device usage and user behavior. The article AI chatbot traffic grows seven times faster than social media but still trails by a factor of four appeared first on The Decoder.
I’m a VC who bets on AI. What keeps me up at night isn’t the idea of these companies failing—quite the opposite
I've stopped asking, "which AI company should I back?" Instead, I've started asking which problems the major players are ignoring.
The founder of a $2.5 million AI-powered legal business started work at her DA’s office at just 12 years old
Logan Brown, the founder of AI-powered law firm Soxton, lived out her “Legally Blonde” dreams through hometown court hearings as a preteen and attending Harvard Law School.
OCSF explained: The shared data language security teams have been missing
The security industry has spent the last year talking about models, copilots, and agents, but a quieter shift is happening one layer below all of that: Vendors are lining up around a shared way to describe security data. The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), is emerging as one of the strongest candidates for that job. It gives vendors, enterprises, and practitioners a common way to represent security events, findings, objects, and context. That means less time rewriting field names and custom parsers and more time correlating detections, running analytics, and building workflows that can work across products. In a market where every security team is stitching together endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, and AI telemetry, a common infrastructure long felt like a pipe dream, and OCSF now puts it within reach. OCSF in plain language OCSF is an open-source framework for cybersecurity schemas. It’s vendor neutral by design and deliberately agnostic to storage format, data collection,
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Memori Labs Launches OpenClaw Plugin, Bringing Persistent AI Memory to Agents
Article URL: https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/memori-labs-launches-openclaw-plugin-bringing-persistent-ai-memory-to-multi-agent-gateways-c0d32116 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644665 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
I let Gemini in Google Maps plan my day and it went surprisingly well
Take me to the tacos, Gemini. You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that's in every Google service you use - whether you want it or not. While it's been a constant, sometimes unwelcome presence in Gmail for at least the past year, it's a relatively new addition to Maps. And you know what? It's kind of great. To put it to the test, I had Gemini plan a day-long itinerary for me around the city. After an hour or so of having Gemini find stuff for me - playgrounds near the new light rail extension, kid-friendly restaurants with vehicle themes, you get the gist - I was impressed. Some of the suggestions were obvious, but I also bookmarked a handful of spots not on m … Read the full story at The Verge.
How Investors May Respond To Arm Holdings (ARM) Launching Its First In-House AI Data Center CPU
In late March 2026, Arm Holdings announced its first in-house AI data center chip, the Arm AGI CPU, extending its platform from licensing IP into production silicon for agentic AI workloads in partnership with leading customers such as Meta and major OEMs and cloud providers. Days later, IBM revealed a collaboration with Arm to build dual-architecture hardware for AI and data-intensive enterprise workloads, signaling that Arm’s move into CPUs is being woven directly into mission-critical,...
Alibaba Has a New Agentic AI Chip, Too—But Investors Don’t Seem to Care
It’s not just Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) that’s betting big on the future of agentic AI with its new AGI CPU; Chinese tech giant Alibaba (NASDAQ:BABA) also has a new chip that specializes in running next-generation AI agents. Undoubtedly, if you’ve completely written off Alibaba or any of the other Chinese internet stocks amid their latest ... Alibaba Has a New Agentic AI Chip, Too—But Investors Don’t Seem to Care
Show HN: Vibooks – Local-first bookkeeping software built for AI agents
Article URL: https://vibooks.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645019 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Microsoft's new framework for building and orchestrating AI agents
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639277 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing supply chain hacking spree, and more.
Anthropic cuts off the ability to use Claude subscriptions with OpenClaw and third-party AI agents
Are you a subscriber to Anthropic's Claude Pro ($20 monthly) or Max ($100-$200 monthly) plans and use its Claude AI models and products to power third-party AI agents like OpenClaw? If so, you're in for an unpleasant surprise. Anthropic announced a few hours ago that starting tomorrow, Saturday, April 4, 2026, at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET, it will no longer be possible for those Claude subscribers to use their subscriptions to hook Anthropic's Claude models up to third-party agentic tools, citing the strain such usage was placing on Anthropic's compute and engineering resources, and desire to serve a wide number of users reliably. "We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools," wrote Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, in a post on X. "Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API." The company also reportedly
Robotics
Studying Human Attitudes Towards Robots Through Experience
Building the next generation of robots for successful integration into our homes, offices, and factories is more than just solving the hardware and software problems – we also need to understand how they will be perceived and how they can work effectively with people in those spaces. aspect_ratio In summer 2025, RAI Institute set up a free popup robot experience in the CambridgeSide mall, designed to let people experience state-of-the-art robotics first hand. While news stories about robots and AI are common, with some being overly critical and some overly optimistic, most people have not encountered robots in the flesh (or metal) as it were. With no direct experience, their opinions are largely shaped by pop culture and social media, both of which are more focused on sensational stories instead of accurate information about how the robots might be used effectively and where the technology still falls short. Our goal with the popup was two-fold: first, to give people an opportunity