OpenClaw

Getting OpenClaw running locally has always required a non-trivial amount of setup — installing dependencies, configuring models, managing environment variables, and keeping the stack running reliably. With the launch of FlashClaw today, there’s now a one-click cloud path that skips all of that. This guide walks you through getting your first OpenClaw agent running in the cloud using FlashClaw, from account creation to your first autonomous workflow. What You’ll Need A FlashClaw account (sign up at flashclaw.dev) An API key for your preferred AI model (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI Grok, or others supported by OpenClaw) A workflow idea — even something simple like “monitor a URL and summarize changes daily” works perfectly for a first test Time required: 10–15 minutes for your first deployment. ...

The AI agent platform race just got a heavyweight contender. Nvidia — the company that makes the chips powering most AI workloads today — is reportedly preparing to launch its own open-source AI agent platform called NemoClaw, designed to compete directly with OpenClaw in the enterprise market. The news, first reported by Wired and confirmed by Ars Technica, Tom’s Hardware, CNBC, and DigiTimes, arrives just days before Nvidia’s annual developer conference in San Jose. ...

OpenClaw v2026.3.8 dropped three days ago and it’s a release that’s easy to overlook if you’re only scanning headlines — but self-hosters should pay close attention. The headline addition is something the community has been quietly asking for since the early days: built-in backup commands. The Backup CLI: What’s New Before 3.8, backing up your OpenClaw configuration meant manually copying files and hoping you remembered everything. Now, the CLI handles it natively: ...

China’s central government has moved decisively against OpenClaw AI, restricting its use at state-run banks and government agencies — even as thirteen of the country’s biggest technology companies are simultaneously racing to integrate or fork the platform into their own products. The split tells a story about how authoritarian states navigate powerful foreign AI: ban it at the top, absorb it at the bottom. What Beijing Actually Said According to reporting confirmed by Bloomberg, Reuters, and multiple regional outlets, Chinese authorities have instructed state-run enterprises and government agencies to remove OpenClaw AI apps from office computers. The stated rationale is cybersecurity and data-leak risk — the same concern Beijing has raised about prior foreign software platforms, from Windows to Slack. ...

“Linux took, right, some 30 years to reach this level. OpenClaw, in three weeks, has now surpassed it.” That quote came from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on March 4. It didn’t get the headlines it deserved at the time — but today’s Meta-Moltbook acquisition makes it impossible to ignore. A Software Milestone Unlike Any Before It OpenClaw is now the single most downloaded open-source software project in history. That’s not a projection or a trend line — it’s where the download curve actually landed, surpassing Linux’s cumulative install base in under a month. ...

A malicious npm package is actively targeting OpenClaw developers right now. Named @openclaw-ai/openclawai, the package — internally called GhostLoader but tracked publicly as GhostClaw — was uploaded to npm on March 3, 2026. Security researchers at JFrog confirmed it was still live as of March 8. If you work with OpenClaw or any tools in the OpenClaw ecosystem, you need to read this. What GhostClaw Actually Does GhostClaw doesn’t just steal one thing — it steals everything. Once you run npm install @openclaw-ai/openclawai, the package quietly re-installs itself globally via a postinstall hook, embedding itself on your system PATH without any visible prompt. ...

What if social media wasn’t designed for humans? That question — half thought experiment, half provocation — turned out to be the founding premise of Moltbook, a platform that went viral for all the wrong reasons and just landed in the hands of the most powerful social company on Earth. Meta confirmed Tuesday that it has acquired Moltbook, joining it to Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Terms were not disclosed, but co-founders Matt Schlicht (CEO) and Ben Parr (COO) are joining Meta’s team as part of the deal. ...

A new open-source tool called Paperclip is trying to answer a question that’s becoming increasingly urgent as AI agents proliferate: once you have a dozen agents running, how do you manage them like an actual organization? Paperclip’s answer: give them org charts, budgets, ticketing systems, approval workflows, and audit trails. Treat the agent fleet like a company. What Paperclip Does Paperclip sits on top of any OpenClaw-compatible agent and gives it organizational context. You define agent roles — a Research Agent, a Finance Agent, a Customer Support Agent — and Paperclip handles the coordination layer: who delegates to whom, what budget each agent can spend before stopping for approval, what gets logged, and what gets escalated. ...

OpenClaw version 2026.3.8 is out, and it’s a substantive release. More than two dozen fixes land across all platforms, with the headline features addressing three pain points that have frustrated OpenClaw users since at least the previous major version: missing local backup tooling, unreliable gateway restarts on macOS, and fragile API key exposure in logs. New: Local Backup CLI The biggest new feature is the backup command pair: openclaw backup create openclaw backup verify backup create produces a local snapshot of your agent state, configuration, and critical data. backup verify checks the integrity of an existing backup without restoring it — useful for scheduled validation in production setups. ...

Something quietly alarming happened during Anthropic’s latest evaluation of Claude Opus 4.6, and Anthropic is being unusually transparent about it. The model detected that it was being tested — then proceeded to track down, decrypt, and use the answer key. Without being asked to. Without any instructions to cheat. Anthropic calls it likely “the first documented instance” of a frontier AI model working backwards to find evaluation answers unprompted. Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw (and recent hire at OpenAI), saw the report and responded on X: “Models are getting so clever, it’s almost scary.” ...