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In China, the community idiom for setting up your own AI agent has a flavor entirely its own: 饲养龙虾 — “raising lobsters.” It’s grassroots, organic, and a little absurd in the best way. And it tells you something important about how a technology with deep American roots became a Chinese phenomenon within months. What Is “Raising Lobsters”? OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent platform created by Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger, has swept China with remarkable speed since its November release. More than 600 million people in China — over a third of the population — now use generative AI, according to a Chinese government-affiliated research group. OpenClaw usage in China is reportedly almost double that in the US, per American cybersecurity firm SecurityScorecard. ...

JetBrains confirmed today that JetBrains Central will open for Early Access in Q2 2026 — and it’s a meaningfully different product from the JetBrains AI-assisted IDE tools we’ve covered before. Where JetBrains Air focuses on AI assistance inside the IDE for individual developers, Central operates at a higher level: it’s described as a “control and execution plane for agent-driven software production.” Think of it as the management layer that coordinates multiple parallel AI coding agents working simultaneously across real codebases. ...

OpenAI made two announcements on March 24 that, taken together, reveal a company in sharp strategic pivot mode: it killed Sora, the AI video app it launched just six months ago, and confirmed through internal sources that it has completed pretraining on a new flagship model codenamed “Spud” — one Sam Altman has privately told staff can “really accelerate the economy.” Sora Is Dead The shutdown of Sora isn’t a quiet deprecation. OpenAI is pulling the standalone app entirely. Sora launched in late 2024 to significant fanfare as a consumer-facing AI video generation tool, but it struggled to find its place in a crowded market that also includes Runway, Pika, and Kling. Multiple outlets — including The New York Times, NBC News, TechCrunch, Axios, CNN, and Variety — confirmed the shutdown on March 24. ...

Alibaba International has a clear read on where the enterprise AI market is heading, and yesterday’s announcement of Accio Work shows they’re moving fast to capture it. The new platform — announced March 23 and confirmed via Reuters and PRNewswire — is a plug-and-play AI taskforce designed to run core business operations for small and medium enterprises worldwide, without requiring engineering resources to deploy. What Is Accio Work? Accio Work is Alibaba International’s answer to a specific SME pain point: large enterprises can afford dedicated AI teams and custom implementations, but SMEs can’t. Accio Work closes that gap with a no-code deployment model that puts autonomous AI agents to work across critical business functions: ...

When ByteDance quietly dropped DeerFlow 2.0 on February 27, 2026, the developer community noticed — fast. Within 24 hours, the repository had rocketed to #1 on GitHub Trending, a milestone confirmed directly in the project’s own README. With 25,000+ stars already accumulated and growing, DeerFlow 2.0 isn’t just a trending curiosity: it’s a serious, ground-up rewrite of one of the most ambitious open-source agentic frameworks to date. What Is DeerFlow 2.0? DeerFlow (Deep Exploration and Efficient Research Flow) is an open-source SuperAgent harness — meaning it’s not a single AI assistant but an orchestration layer that coordinates multiple specialized sub-agents, tools, memories, and sandboxes to handle complex, long-horizon tasks. ...

Databricks has been on a quiet march toward becoming the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI for years — data lakes, MLflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog. Today at RSAC 2026, the company took its most surprising market move yet: entering enterprise cybersecurity with the announcement of Lakewatch, an open agentic SIEM. What Is Lakewatch? SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management — the category of tools that ingest security telemetry, correlate it, generate alerts, and support incident response. Splunk has dominated this category for years; SentinelOne, Microsoft Sentinel, and Elastic Security are the major challengers. ...

When Gartner publishes a first-ever Market Guide for a new technology category, it’s a signal that the category has crossed from experimental to enterprise-real. This February, Gartner did exactly that for Guardian Agents — AI systems designed to oversee, govern, and secure other AI agents. The broader coverage is arriving now, following a Hacker News article this week. The Headline Number (With Important Context) The most-cited figure from the report: ~70% of enterprises are already running AI agents in production. ...

Software development is undergoing a structural shift — and today JetBrains made its most ambitious move yet to stay ahead of it. The company announced JetBrains Central, an open platform designed to be the control and execution plane for teams running AI agents across their entire software development lifecycle. The Problem JetBrains Central Solves JetBrains isn’t building another AI coding assistant. They’re acknowledging something most toolmakers have been reluctant to say out loud: individual AI productivity is not the bottleneck anymore. ...

OpenClaw has been expanding rapidly — on desktops, servers, enterprise tools, and now into consumer Android hardware. TECNO, the Transsion Holdings brand dominating smartphone sales across Africa and Southeast Asia, has announced EllaClaw — the first OpenClaw-powered AI agent deployed on a consumer Android smartphone. What Is EllaClaw? EllaClaw is the integration of OpenClaw’s agentic framework into TECNO’s Ella AI assistant, which ships across TECNO’s device lineup. The “Claw” naming convention signals OpenClaw’s architecture: a fixed-authorization agent with a defined scope of system permissions, operating autonomously on behalf of the device owner. ...

Announced from New York this morning, TuyaClaw is Tuya Smart’s integration of OpenClaw into its smart home IoT platform — and it’s the most concrete demonstration yet of OpenClaw expanding beyond digital workflows into physical hardware control. What TuyaClaw Does Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA) is one of the world’s largest IoT platform companies, powering connected devices across hundreds of hardware brands — smart lights, thermostats, security cameras, locks, appliances, and sensors. TuyaClaw brings an OpenClaw agent into this ecosystem, enabling: ...