In a fresh development, it might run amok! It could threaten your privacy! You’d be an easy target for hackers! Cast your mind back four months ago–ancient history, I know–when I wrote that OpenClaw, the open-source tool that kicked off the whole agentic AI craze, was too dangerous to install on your local system.
In a fresh development, well, based on what we’ve seen in the past few days, OpenClaw just made an extraordinary leap from Edge City to Main Street.
Industry observers note that the first RTX Spark-powered consumer laptops should arrive in the fall, Huang promised, along with OpenShell, a programs framework designed to keep those agents on a short leash. This past week at Computex in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled RTX Spark, a bleeding-edge system-on-a-chip designed to work in tandem with the very same AI agents popularized by OpenClaw.
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According to the latest update, the very next day, Microsoft chief exec Satya Nadella took the stage at Build, the publisher’s annual developer conference, and unveiled a “full-stack” technology architecture based entirely around AI agents, complete with Scout, an OpenClaw-like 24/7 personal AI assistant.
In a fresh development, perhaps most striking of all was the sight of an enthusiastic Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw (and now a well-compensated OpenAI employee), in person at Build to help unveil a Windows desktop version of his viral tool, now heavily sandboxed and guardrailed to the max.
According to the latest update, in short, the era of PCs running on AI agents isn’t years away–it’s months away.
In a fresh development, it’s easy to see why Nvidia and Microsoft are (in essence) embracing OpenClaw, the agentic AI tool once considered too dangerous to sit behind a corporate firewall.
As part of the ongoing story, openClaw broke AI out of the chatbox, unleashing autonomous AI agents that could actually do things on your desktop (hence the “claws”). These agents “think” for themselves, they take action on their own, and you can talk to them on Slack, WhatsApp, or the social app of your choice. They’re the ultimate assistants, working 24/7. Indeed, the very thing that gives OpenClaw a bad rap is what makes it so compelling.
In a fresh development, of course, the claws on those assistants are pretty dang sharp, and this week, Microsoft and Nvidia were showing off their enterprise-grade mittens, all in the hopes of convincing you, me, and everyone else to buy laptops and desktops running on AI agents.
Industry observers note that ask me again come Thanksgiving. Will it work?
The report highlights that ask it to teach you something, and it’ll spit out a term paper, likely divided into 15 parts and peppered with bullet points. If your eyes glaze over trying to get through a ChatGPT dissertation, I won’t blame you. AI just loves to lecture.
The report highlights that put on your thinking cap and give the Socratic method prompt a try. With the right prompt, though, you can turn ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot from a pedantic lecturer into a Socratic professor–one that teaches concepts with probing questions rather than long-winded diatribes.
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