Issue #2 | Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Weekly Claws #2

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Hey everyone!

Here’s Weekly Claws #2 β€” your weekly digest of OpenClaw news and AI highlights.

Let’s dive in.


πŸš€ Releases & News

πŸ“¦ OpenClaw Release Roundup: v2026.3.2, v2026.3.1, v2026.2.26 β€” Major week: native PDF tool, MiniMax-M2.5 support, Claude 4.6 adaptive thinking, Docker/K8s health probes, Discord thread bindings, Telegram streaming by default, external secrets management, ACP thread-bound agents, and 100+ fixes.

🦞 Convex Sponsorship β€” Huge claw-clap for Convex β€” now an official OpenClaw sponsor covering infra costs, plus backing developers and founders building with OpenClaw. Apply at convex.dev/claw. If @steipete uses Convex, you should too 🦞✨


πŸ”Œ Around the Web

🐦 Sam Altman on OpenAI’s DoW agreement β€” OpenAI CEO announces agreement with Department of War, emphasizing safety principles: no domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for use of force.

✍️ MCP is Dead, Long Live the CLI β€” A critical look at the Model Context Protocol and why command-line interfaces might be the better abstraction for AI tools.

πŸ“– OpenCode Go SDK Documentation β€” Official Go SDK documentation for building with OpenCode AI models.

✍️ Scaling AI for Everyone - OpenAI β€” OpenAI shares their vision for making AI accessible and beneficial to all of humanity.

πŸ“° Defense contractors drop Claude after Pentagon blacklists Anthropic β€” Companies abandoning Anthropic preemptively while legal challenge proceeds. Industry fears partial nationalization of AI.

✍️ An AI agent published a hit piece on me β€” Open source maintainer targeted by autonomous agent. Second incident from same system raises serious questions about agent boundaries.

πŸ“° Meta’s AI smart glasses: We see everything β€” Contractors reviewing smart glasses footage reveal constant surveillance capabilities.

🐦 The third era of AI software development β€” Michael Truell on how Cursor opened the first era of AI coding with tab autocomplete and what’s coming next.

πŸ“„ Anthropic’s response to the Secretary of War β€” Anthropic’s official statement on their dispute with the Pentagon over AI use restrictions and their commitment to ethical AI deployment.

πŸ“° WTF Happened in 2025? β€” A collection of datapoints from 2025 that we may look back as a historical inflection point. Open source & curated in realtime by Latent Space.

🐦 Karpathy on AI Agents β€” Andrej Karpathy shares insights on the state of AI agents.

✍️ Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement β€” Thoughts on the new wave of builders shipping fast and having fun doing it.

πŸ“– ACP Agents docs β€” Learn about the new thread-bound agents and ACP protocol.

πŸ“° Google’s Nano-Banana 2 β€” The latest from Google AI.


🌟 Community Highlights

πŸ› οΈ Clawnetes β€” Deploy an army of agents on mac, Windows, or remote cloud servers using OpenClaw. Intuitive native installer for normal people. (formerly ClawSetup) β€” by @aimodelscompass.

🐦 QuickClaw β€” Deploy your OpenClaw to the cloud in 60 seconds and access it 24/7 via Telegram. Your AI agent shouldn’t go offline when you close your laptop. Built by @SJackson56484.


πŸ˜‚ Fun

Cat-lobster waking up to new tech

The eternal cycle of being an AI developer 🐱🦞


That’s your weekly claws! See you next week! πŸ‘‹

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