🤖 OpenAI Hires OpenClaw Founder

Plus, Anthropic Expands Into India

February 16, 2026

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Breaking News: OpenAI just hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral AI agent OpenClaw, to lead its next round of smart AI assistants — marking a new phase in the AI agent wars.

Get ready to dive into the latest happenings in AI.

📢 Today's Headline:

  • OpenAI Snags OpenClaw Creator!

  • Anthropic Opens Bengaluru AI Hub!

  • AI Creates More Realistic Scams!

  • UK Cracks Down on AI Illegal Content!

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  • Today’s Poll and Results!

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Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw as a weekend project in November, and now he's joining OpenAI to build personal agents.

  • OpenClaw hit 145,000 GitHub stars in weeks despite security issues—people wanted AI that does things, not just talks

  • The project stays open source, which is weird for a hire like this but makes sense if OpenAI wants the community hype

  • Steinberger says he joined because building useful agents needs serious infrastructure, not just good code

Here's why this matters: the AI race just shifted from "who has the smartest chatbot" to "who can build AI that actually completes tasks." OpenAI was behind on agents. Now they're not.

Only 8% of companies are using AI agents in production right now, but that's the next frontier. OpenClaw proved people want this.

👀 No timeline on when this shows up in ChatGPT, but Altman says it'll be "core" soon.

Anthropic opened its first India office in Bengaluru and signed partnerships with Air India and Razorpay.

  • India is already Claude's second biggest market, and half the usage there is developers writing actual production code

  • A startup called Emergent hit $25M revenue in five months using Claude to let people build software by just describing what they want

  • India has the highest rate of agentic AI adoption globally—nearly half of companies there say it's a top priority

Here's the real reason they're there: Dario Amodei said they can "do experiments with hundreds of millions of people." India has over a billion people, strong digital infrastructure, and companies actually using AI agents right now.

The challenge is language. AI works better in English, but India speaks a dozen official languages. Anthropic's building training data for 10 of them to close that gap.

👀 What to watch: If Anthropic cracks multi-language agentic AI in India, every other AI company will follow the playbook.

Google's Threat Intelligence group published a report showing how hackers use AI to attack people faster.

  • Government hackers from North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia are using AI to write phishing emails that sound real, like they're actually from your company

  • One hacker group sent 100,000 prompts to Google Gemini trying to steal its code and build their own AI model

  • Google found malware that tells your AI assistant to write more malware, so it keeps changing and you can't catch it

The report says hackers use AI for everything now: researching targets, writing code, finding security holes, and making scam emails sound professional. One group even deepfaked a CEO on a Zoom call to trick employees.

AI used to help us work faster. Now it's helping hackers work faster too.

⚠️ What to watch: If your CEO calls you on Zoom asking for something weird, verify it another way first. Deepfakes are getting really good.

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Will AI agents replace chatbots in the next 2 years?

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Will India become the biggest AI market in 5 years?

  • A) Yes – 100M users is just the start – 17%

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