Topic: Openclaw

87 mentions · 58 chunks · 23 episodes

18.7× distinctiveness vs baseline
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1.7x burst in 2026 Q1
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Topic summary

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  • Openclaw appears in 58 chunks across 23 episodes, from 2026-02-02 to 2026-09-21.
  • Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/16/26 (2026-02-16), with 6 observations on this topic.
  • Semantically it travels with wild west, Claude Code, and Microsoft, while by chunk count it sits between tech industry and Apple.

Over time

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Raw mentions over time. Use this to see absolute attention, not relative rank among all topics.
Mean 2.5 mentions per episode across the full range2026-02-02: 2 mentions2026-02-09: 5 mentions2026-02-16: 6 mentions2026-02-23: 5 mentions2026-03-02: 3 mentions2026-03-09: 2 mentions2026-03-17: 2 mentions2026-03-23: 3 mentions2026-03-30: 4 mentions2026-04-06: 1 mention2026-04-13: 2 mentions2026-04-27: 1 mention2026-05-04: 1 mention2026-05-11: 2 mentions2026-05-18: 1 mention2026-05-26: 5 mentions2026-06-08: 2 mentions2026-06-15: 3 mentions2026-06-22: 2 mentions2026-06-29: 3 mentions2026-08-17: 1 mention2026-09-07: 1 mention2026-09-21: 1 mention2026-02-02: 22026-02-09: 52026-02-16: 62026-02-23: 52026-03-02: 32026-03-09: 22026-03-17: 22026-03-23: 32026-03-30: 42026-04-06: 12026-04-13: 22026-04-27: 12026-05-04: 12026-05-11: 22026-05-18: 12026-05-26: 52026-06-08: 22026-06-15: 32026-06-22: 22026-06-29: 32026-08-17: 12026-09-07: 12026-09-21: 12026-02-022026-09-21

Observations

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This week in the Wild West Roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 5/11/26 ·

...en prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks. Malicious OpenClaw DeepSeek Skill Exploits Agentic AI Workflows to Deliver RAT and Stealer. An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. Cla...

This week in the Wild West Roundup.

from Bits and Bobs 4/13/26 ·

...ng press is also picking up on some of this: "I ran Nvidia's NemoClaw to see if OpenClaw is finally safe, but it still has the same problems." Claude, OpenClaw and the new reality: AI agents are here — and so is the chaos.

This week in the Wild West Roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 4/6/26 ·

...Leakage via a Hidden Outbound Channel in the Code Execution Runtime. A roundup: OpenClaw Security Report CrewAI Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Hacking "Attackers can exploit the bugs through prompt injection, chaining them together to ...

This week in the Wild West roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 3/30/26 ·

...: Claude Extension Flaw Enabled Zero-Click XSS Prompt Injection via Any Website OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage. "In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. Th...

This week's Wild West roundup is a doozy:

from Bits and Bobs 3/9/26 ·

...Also covered in this Twitter post: trust your inputs, lose your repo. Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distribute Atomic macOS Stealer. OpenClaw Vulnerability: Website-to-Local Agent Takeover. Fooling AI Agents: Web-Based Indirect Prompt...

A tweet:

from Bits and Bobs 3/2/26 ·

...sically dead on arrival, while complex, highly technical products (claude code, openclaw) gain mass adoption in seconds. we're definitely missing something."[bv] Grubby Truffles win out in this phase over Gilded Turds.

This week in the Wild West roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 3/2/26 ·

This week in the Wild West roundup: A Facebook Alignment exec watched OpenClaw delete her email and couldn't stop it. Bloomberg: OpenClaw might be a security nightmare for Sam Altman. OpenAI Dev's Crypto AI Agent Accidentally Se...