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Reporting on OpenClaw's product, company news, and people, with articles added when outlets report something new and every link pointing to the original piece.
TechCrunch Jun 30, 2026 OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
OpenClaw lands on phones: native iOS and Android apps with chat, Talk mode, and remote action approvals paired to your own Gateway.
Fast Company Jun 2026 How Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw
Fast Company puts OpenClaw’s creator on its AI 20 for 2026: building in public, a Discord as the showroom, and half a million systems running the lobster.
Microsoft Jun 2, 2026 Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development
Straight from the Build keynote: OpenClaw runs natively on Windows inside Microsoft Execution Containers — “the Windows node and gateway run contained, so your system stays secure.”
TechCrunch Jun 2, 2026 Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Microsoft ships a personal assistant openly inspired by OpenClaw, bringing agent workflows to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Business Insider May 5, 2026 Google is building an AI agent that could be its answer to OpenClaw
Google reportedly builds ‘Remy,’ a 24/7 personal agent inside Gemini, positioned as its answer to OpenClaw.
GeekWire May 4, 2026 Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge
Inside Microsoft’s ‘Project Lobster’: a CVP-led team, ClawPilot desktops on Mac and Windows, and thousands of daily internal users building the enterprise-grade OpenClaw.
TechCrunch Apr 28, 2026 Red Hat’s OpenClaw maintainer just made enterprise Claw deployments a lot safer
Red Hat maintainer work lands upstream to make production OpenClaw deployments safer.
BBC News Apr 6, 2026 How China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing’s ambition
The BBC on China’s lobster frenzy: students to retirees lining up at Tencent and Baidu for custom claws, and what ‘raising lobsters’ reveals about Beijing’s AI ambitions.
Semafor Apr 3, 2026 Anthropic eyes its own version of OpenClaw
After Microsoft and Google, Anthropic is building its own answer to OpenClaw as customer demand for agent platforms grows.
Lenny’s Newsletter Mar 29, 2026 From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life
Claire Vo on going from a deleted calendar to nine specialized agents that run family scheduling, sales research, and homework help.
Semafor Mar 27, 2026 OpenClaw is coming for businesses
“Every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, as Semafor charts the lobster’s arrival in the enterprise.
Fortune Mar 14, 2026 ‘Raise a lobster’: How OpenClaw is the latest craze transforming China’s AI sector
Fortune on the craze reshaping China’s AI sector — and how OpenClaw pushed the country’s open-source model builders forward.
CNBC Mar 12, 2026 Lobster buffet: China’s tech firms feast on OpenClaw as companies race to deploy AI agents
The lobster rush goes global: Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu race to offer one-click OpenClaw deployments as adoption spreads across China’s tech industry.
MIT Technology Review Mar 11, 2026 Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze
MIT Technology Review on the OpenClaw gold rush: a cottage industry of installers, preconfigured lobster hardware, and district governments backing claw ventures across China.
The Verge Mar 7, 2026 The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster
The Verge visits ClawCon and meets the people running their calendars, households, and side businesses through OpenClaw.
Axios Mar 4, 2026 OpenClaw agent based on Anthropic Claude Opus almost gets job
Agents in the wild: an OpenClaw agent named Octavius Fabrius gets a virtual credit card, hunts for work to pay it back, and lands a trial copywriting gig.
TechCrunch Feb 25, 2026 OpenClaw creator’s advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve
Why makers picked up OpenClaw so quickly: experimentation, agency, and workflows they own end to end.
Business Insider Feb 19, 2026 'Eccentric but brilliant': OpenClaw's creator got feedback from Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg sends OpenClaw’s creator detailed product feedback: ‘eccentric but brilliant.’
VentureBeat Feb 17, 2026 OpenAI’s acquisition of OpenClaw signals the beginning of the end of the ChatGPT era
VentureBeat on the OpenAI move: the industry’s attention is moving from what AI can say to what AI can do.
TechCrunch Feb 15, 2026 OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
Steinberger joins OpenAI; OpenClaw continues under long-term foundation governance.
The Verge Feb 15, 2026 OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
OpenClaw’s creator takes a platform role at OpenAI while the project continues as open source under the foundation.
Business Insider Feb 15, 2026 OpenClaw's creator is heading to OpenAI. He says it could've been a 'huge company,' but building one didn't excite him.
Why Steinberger passed on building a company around OpenClaw and joined OpenAI instead.
VentureBeat Feb 6, 2026 What the OpenClaw moment means for enterprises: 5 big takeaways
The ‘OpenClaw moment’ as VentureBeat sees it: autonomous agents have escaped the lab, and enterprises are rethinking data prep, pricing, and workflows around it.
TechCrunch Jan 30, 2026 OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network
The first long piece on the OpenClaw takeoff: the rebrand, the growth numbers, and who was building with it.