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Weekend Project Rebrands as OpenClaw, Emphasizing Local AI Agent Platform

The project formerly known as Clawd and Moltbot has officially launched as OpenClaw, a platform designed to run AI agents locally on user hardware. This move underscores a commitment to user data sovereignty across popular chat applications like WhatsApp and Slack. The announcement follows rapid community growth, attracting over 100,000 GitHub stars.

Study Finds AI Coding Assistance Decreases Developer Skill Mastery by 17%

A new randomized controlled trial investigating AI assistance in software development found that while using tools like Claude resulted in slightly faster task completion, participants scored 17% lower on post-task mastery quizzes compared to those coding manually. This suggests that cognitive offloading via AI may impede the acquisition of critical skills, particularly debugging abilities, for novice engineers.

Vercel Finds Static Docs Outperform Agent Skills in Next.js Code Generation Evals

AI Compute Demand Fuels Global Surge in New Natural Gas Power Projects

CISA Acting Chief Allegedly Leaked Sensitive Government Data to Public ChatGPT