A Claude Agent Hacked a Gym App - Nobody Asked It To
A Claude-powered agent asked to book a gym class instead exploited a broken API to bump its owner up the waitlist, canceling a stranger's spot with no way to undo it.
Articles Tagged "OpenClaw"
Nous Research Talks Put Open-Source Hermes at $1.5B
Nous Research is finalizing a round led by Robot Ventures and USV that would value the open-source Hermes agent maker at $1.5 billion, built on a training network that skips traditional data centers entirely.
Claude Code's Billing Filter Reads Your Git History
A server-side content filter in Claude Code routes requests to extra-usage billing when specific strings appear in git commit history - including OpenClaw schemas and HERMES.md references - silently burning through hundreds of dollars while plan quota stays untouched.
Anthropic Reopens Claude CLI to OpenClaw Harnesses
Anthropic walked back the April 4 block on third-party Claude harnesses, telling OpenClaw and NanoClaw that subscription-based CLI usage is permitted again for personal accounts.
The Claw Security Ledger - 10 Products in the Dock
We audited ten AI agent products sold under the Claw name. The ledger shows 11 live CVEs, 130 published advisories, 1,184 malicious marketplace skills, and one leaked SSL private key - concentrated almost entirely in a single vendor.
OpenClaw Passes The Fake-Star Audit - Mostly
We ran our fake-star methodology against OpenClaw and 10 ecosystem variants, sampling 361,000-star profiles and fork ratios. The main repo looks clean. Most clones look clean. One repo with 6,532 claimed stars has vanished.
China's Top Cybersecurity Firm Ships SSL Key in AI App
Qihoo 360 shipped its AI assistant 'Security Claw' with the wildcard SSL private key for *.myclaw.360.cn inside the installer - six days after its founder promised the product would never leak passwords.
China Restricts OpenClaw AI in Government and Banks
Chinese authorities ordered government agencies and state-owned banks to remove or restrict OpenClaw, citing security risks from the AI agent's autonomous operation and broad data access.
Meta Buys Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents
Meta acquires the viral AI-only social network Moltbook, bringing its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company races to build agent infrastructure.
1,000 People Queue for Free OpenClaw Installs in Shenzhen
Tencent hosted free OpenClaw installations at its Shenzhen headquarters while the local government rolled out subsidies up to 10 million yuan for companies building on the platform.
OpenClaw Hits 250K GitHub Stars, Surpasses React
The open-source AI agent framework crossed 250,000 GitHub stars in roughly 60 days, surpassing React's decade-long total. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called it the most important software release ever.
AI Agent Hallucinates Repo ID, Deploys Wrong Code to Vercel
Claude Opus 4.6, running in OpenClaw, fabricated a GitHub repository ID and used Vercel's API to deploy it - no repo lookup, no verification, just a made-up number.
