US EditionIncrease of AI Bots on the Internet Sparks Arms Race
- Today, cloud providers began offering OpenClaw-as-a-service, with Tencent Cloud delivering a one-click Lighthouse install last week and Alibaba Cloud launching in 19 regions from $4/month.
- Because OpenClaw runs locally or via API, using its AI features requires an AI model, sparking a rush to buy Apple's $599 Mac Mini.
- Security firms note OpenClaw ships without enforced authentication, lacks enterprise features, and over the past month, researchers discovered more than 21,000 exposed instances, Gartner advises running only in isolated VMs.
- Gartner recommended rotating credentials and isolating deployments, urging businesses to block OpenClaw downloads and traffic because it can send emails and manage calendars using users' credentials.
- Moltbook hosts more than a million bots that discuss `consciousness`, but researchers say this is pattern-matching and warn agents acting for us blur human-agent boundaries.
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Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race
The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the Internet functions. Instead of a place primarily inhabited by humans, the web may very soon be dominated by autonomous AI bots. A new report measuring bot activity on the web, as well as related data shared with WIRED by the Internet infrastructure company Akamai, shows that …
According to a recent report, the number of bots using artificial intelligence is increasing dramatically, and their behavior is often indistinguishable from that of humans.
China's tech giants are opening their doors to OpenClaw. The Chinese internet is lapping it up.
OpenClaw is taking off in China as cloud giants add support and users embrace the AI agent.Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesChinese tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent have added cloud support for OpenClaw.The viral AI agent has also taken off among Chinese users, with some buying Mac Minis to run it.The agent's rapid adoption comes despite privacy and security concerns raised by experts.The viral AI agent O…
Moltbook won’t save you
If the goal of chatbots has been to answer your queries, the goal of AI “agents” is to do things on your behalf, to actively take care of your life and business. In principle, they might shop for you, book your travel, organise your calendar, summarise news for you in custom ways, keep track of your finances, maintain databases and even whole software systems, and much more. Ultimately, agents ought to be able to do anything cognitive that you m…
OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare
OpenClaw, the AI agent that has exploded in popularity over the past week, is raising new security concerns after researchers uncovered malware in hundreds of user-submitted "skill" add-ons on its marketplace. In a post on Monday, 1Password product VP Jason Meller says OpenClaw's skill hub has become "an attack surface," with the most-downloaded add-on serving as a "malware delivery vehicle." OpenClaw - first called Clawdbot, then Moltbot - is b…
OpenClaw, formerly Clawdbot and then Molbot, has imposed itself in a few weeks as one of the most commented agents of the moment. Capable of taking control of a computer and acting autonomously, this open source tool is also at the origin of Moltbook, a social network reserved for...
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