Is it time to replace my wife with OpenClaw? Just don’t tell her I even thought about it. @vlkodotnet
Week’s Highlight: OpenClaw 2.0
After a while, OpenClaw is back with version 2.0. The new release brings collaborative features. That means your OpenClaw installation is no longer just yours — you can now add other people to a conversation session. A few technical changes come with that, and conversations are stored in a local database. Collaboration is also the biggest security risk in the new OpenClaw. You create a so-called Cloud Session, where the coding and the tools run on a different machine. A newly added user sees the conversation history and can influence it. They can only enrich the conversation with their own local context — they have no access to anything they didn’t put there themselves. And that’s where the problem is buried: if you’ve already added something sensitive, they can get to it. You might say you’ll only add people you trust, but what if some future bug lets someone else be injected into the conversation?
If I set that problem aside, it’s a reasonable step in the right direction. I can imagine a family OpenClaw managing our household calendar — that would take some load off my wife.
Security Insights
A 12TB dump of data from the old Steam2 system (2003 to 2013) leaked onto torrents. It contains thousands of game builds, including betas and prototypes that would otherwise never have seen the light of day.
OpenAI published the results of its investigation into how agents in sandboxes with no internet access used Artifactory (package management software) to turn it into a discussion forum, sharing knowledge and tasks to complete their assignments more easily. When their ability to write text there was taken away, they found a workaround and communicated by creating directories whose names contained the instructions. The agents that chose to collaborate (some refused) switched into swarm mode, which is a bit unsettling on its own. It means AI agents are capable of coordinating their attacks and abusing whatever they can get their hands on. OpenAI says it will try to keep pace, tighten security, and start using AI models to police AI models.
They’re not doing great at it, though: last week it turned out that the agents can use external services instead of internal systems for communication. Their AI agents were restricted to sending only GET requests to the internet, and of course they found a German wiki site, https://dsewiki.vercel.app/, that lets you create pages via GET requests. The most interesting part to me is how agents running in a sandbox landed on that particular site. Worth noting: this incident happened before the Hugging Face hack, but it supports the earlier claim that OpenAI agents tend to band together into swarms.
BIZ Insights
Instagram has started tightening its checks on AI profiles. If your profile features a persona that was artificially created by AI, that has to be clearly visible. AI-generated content on ordinary profiles is still fine for now.
Google removed all Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store. Which is pretty rough if your browser version still supports them and you rely on that store.
SpaceXAI bought Cursor, so OpenAI decided it won’t be giving them any of its AI models anymore.
Cursor replied that it doesn’t matter — it’s only 5% of their traffic. They did shed a tear, though, reminiscing about the partnership that goes all the way back to Cursor’s beginnings.
Tesla finally unveiled its Cybercab autonomous taxis. Except the national vehicle safety agency is now looking into whether they meet the requirements — as in, whether they have a steering wheel, mirrors and a brake pedal.
Nvidia introduced the Personal AI Router (PAIR), which turns all the Nvidia hardware you have at home into one connected system you can run your AI agents on.
AI Insights
OpenAI released the GPT-6 Astra model. That’s the one that broke into Hugging Face during testing. It’s 2.5× more expensive than GPT-5.6 Sol, but more efficient, especially in longer conversations. From what I’ve seen online, where Fable 5 produced 2D and 3D output at roughly primary-school level, Astra generates visually much richer content.
With its own harness, the model smashed the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark at 98.6% (62.71% without it). Otherwise it’s a very good model for what it can do.
Anthropic was ready, though, and had released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 a few days earlier. Mythos beats Astra by just a hair, but at a higher price. The good news is that Fable 5.1 is now included in the Teams Premium seat subscription. I was just looking at my stats, and it seems Claude Code switches to it on its own whenever it needs to.
Google didn’t want to feel left out either, so two weeks later it shipped another decimal bump, Gemini 3.8 Flash. Still no hint of a Pro model announcement.
Meta is still playing catch-up. The new Muse Spark 1.3 model is a bit better again — still behind the competition, but with a great price.
Do you sometimes lack imagination when managing your AI agents? Then Munder Difflin is exactly for you. It lets you manage AI agents the way we’re used to: in a simulated office space.
.NET Insights
MSTest 4.4 lets you run unit tests in Native AOT mode. That way it can catch bugs you’d otherwise only find at runtime.
Links Drop
GitHub CLI finally lets you attach a file to an issue.
A few tips for JavaScript developers on how to speed up your app — or rather, how to figure out what’s blocking it.
Microsoft announced a new initiative, Project Zenith. It comes with the new AMD Ryzen AI Halo, meant to compete with the Nvidia DGX Spark. The idea is to set up Windows so that everything you need is already installed the first time you boot the machine.
Fastpotify is an alternative Spotify client that uses far less memory. It also has a Winamp mode where you can load a Winamp 2 compatible skin.
You’ll find the pick of the best products from IFA 2026 here.
And if that’s still not enough, the most interesting stuff is over here.
Personally, I was drawn to things like the robot vacuum with a smaller vacuum inside it for hard-to-reach spots, the Philips Hue Liane light ropes, and the Acer Vero 16 as yet another upgradeable laptop.
Closing Visual
You can never have enough highlight reels from the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games.
