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Anthropic just made Claude Cowork significantly more useful for anyone who wants their AI to keep working after they close the laptop. The desktop app now supports scheduled recurring tasks — meaning you can set Claude to run daily research, organize folders, compile summaries, or handle any repeatable workflow automatically, whether you’re at your desk or not. This is a meaningful shift. Cowork launched as a capable task runner, but it required you to be present to kick things off. With scheduled tasks, it starts to look a lot more like the always-on agent model that tools like OpenClaw have been built around from the start. ...

Getting OpenClaw running has always required a server — a Linux box, a VPS, a Raspberry Pi, something you configure, maintain, and keep online. MiniMax just changed that. MaxClaw, launched yesterday at maxclaw.ai, offers one-click cloud deployment of a fully functional OpenClaw instance in under 10 seconds. No server. No Docker. No config files. MiniMax is a Chinese AI unicorn that’s been building foundation models and infrastructure quietly while Anthropic and OpenAI dominate Western headlines. Their M2.5 model — a 229-billion parameter mixture-of-experts architecture — powers MaxClaw under the hood. But the product is OpenClaw-compatible: your agents, your skills, your integrations, running in their cloud. ...

If you run production AI agents, today is a good day to update. OpenClaw v2026.2.26 dropped overnight with a set of fixes that address some of the most frustrating pain points in long-running agentic pipelines — cron jobs dying silently, secrets leaking into environment dumps, and agents losing their memory between sessions. This isn’t a feature-focused release. It’s the kind of hardening update that makes everything else work better, and with 47 contributors and 11 discrete security hardening patches, it’s clearly been a community priority for a while. ...

Apple just crossed a line no major OS vendor had crossed before. With today’s release of Xcode 26.3, the company has shipped native, first-class support for autonomous AI coding agents — plugging Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex directly into the IDE via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This is not a copilot autocomplete feature. These are full agents. What Xcode 26.3 Actually Does The new agent integration lets Claude and Codex do the kind of work a junior developer might spend a full morning on — autonomously. Here’s what agents can do inside Xcode 26.3: ...

On the same day that Oasis Security disclosed a critical vulnerability chain in OpenClaw, and an MIT study found that most agentic AI systems have no documented shutdown controls, a credible new open-source project arrived that addresses both problems at the design level. IronCurtain — published today by Niels Provos, a security researcher with serious credentials (he’s known for work on OpenSSH and honeypot research) — is a model-independent security wrapper for LLM agents that enforces behavioral constraints without requiring changes to the underlying model. ...

Microsoft just entered the autonomous agent race in a meaningful way. Copilot Tasks — announced today and rolling out in preview — is not an enhancement to the existing Copilot assistant. It’s a fundamentally different product: a background agent that runs on a dedicated cloud PC, with its own browser, that accepts natural language instructions and executes them while you’re doing something else entirely. This puts Microsoft in direct competition with OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s computer-use products. And given Microsoft’s distribution advantages, it’s a competitive move worth taking seriously. ...

One of the hardest unsolved problems in agentic AI is not “can the agent do one thing well” — it’s “can the agent juggle dozens of interdependent tasks across hours or days without losing track of where it is.” That’s the problem CORPGEN is built to solve. Microsoft Research published the CORPGEN framework today — a benchmark and execution architecture for managing multi-horizon task completion in autonomous agents. The results are substantial: CORPGEN achieves up to 3.5x improvement over baseline approaches, reaching a 15.2% task completion rate compared to 4.3% for standalone UFO2. ...

If you’re running OpenClaw, stop what you’re doing and read this. Oasis Security’s research team published threat research today revealing a critical vulnerability chain in OpenClaw that enables attackers to achieve full workstation compromise — potentially including privilege escalation and credential theft — initiated entirely from a browser tab. This is a distinct and separate issue from the GHSA-mr32 CVE batch that was patched earlier this month. Compounding the urgency: SecurityScorecard has identified more than 40,000 exposed OpenClaw instances accessible from the public internet. ...

Anthropic has quietly shipped one of the more significant developer-facing features of early 2026: a formal Agent Skills framework that gives Claude agents a structured, reusable way to acquire new capabilities. If you’ve been following the OpenClaw ecosystem, this will feel familiar — OpenClaw’s own SKILL.md-based skill system predated this by months. But Anthropic’s formal framework brings first-party documentation, cross-platform compatibility, and a growing third-party marketplace that changes the calculus for teams building on Claude. ...

Enterprise data infrastructure and agentic AI are colliding in a significant way today. Confluent — the company built around Apache Kafka and real-time streaming data — has added official support for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to its Confluent Intelligence platform. Alongside MCP (Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol), A2A is now a first-class citizen in Confluent’s agent orchestration layer. This is a story about infrastructure maturing to meet where agents are going — and it matters for any team building multi-agent systems on top of real-world data streams. ...