🗞️ AI News of The Week: OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw 🦞
OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the solo developer behind the viral open-source agent OpenClaw.
OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot) exploded onto the scene in January when Steinberger built an AI assistant that could actually do things. Within weeks it had spawned 1.5 million agents and was costing $20,000/month to run. Meta and Microsoft both came calling. Steinberger chose OpenAI because they agreed to keep OpenClaw open source. The internet has not stopped talking about OpenClaw. The virality of this project is kinda bonkers.
Why this matters:
The AI race is no longer about what a model can say, it's about what AI can do.
OpenClaw was one of Anthropic's biggest API customers (most users ran it on Claude), making this a notable competitive win for OpenAI
Steinberger's goal: build "an agent that even my mum can use" …the race for mainstream personal agents is on
🧠 AI Term of The Week: Stateless
Definition: A stateless system handles each request independently, with no memory of previous interactions. Each call starts fresh, as if nothing came before it.
Explain Like I'm 5: Imagine calling customer support, but the rep has no notes from your last call. Every single time you call, you start completely from scratch — they don't know your name, your issue, or anything you discussed before.
Real examples:
Not stateless: Claude remembering your name, preferences, and previous questions throughout a long conversation
Stateless: A basic chatbot that greets you with "How can I help?" every time, with zero memory of past sessions
Not stateless: A shopping site that keeps your cart saved and knows your order history when you return
Stateless: A standard LLM API call — the model receives only what you send in that single request and has no knowledge of anything prior
💬 Quote of the Week:
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones"
🧰 AI Tool of The Week: Weavy AI
What is Weavy AI?:
A node-based, browser-based creative platform that brings together the world's leading AI models and professional editing tools in one unified canvas, built for designers, marketers, and creative teams.
It’s similar to ComfyUI, only more hip and modern. Weavy AI gives you generative AI (Midjourney, Nano Banana, etc), but with 100% fine tune control so you can create anything you want every single time. You add nodes and adjust the settings and once you get it how you want, it’s predictable and consistent until you adjust the settings.
Newsworthy: Figma just acquired Weavy, rolling it into "Figma Weave" and it's about to land in front of millions of designers worldwide
Real-world example: A marketing team builds one Weavy workflow that generates product visuals, applies brand color grades, and outputs ready-to-post assets. Every campaign after that? Same workflow, consistent results, in a fraction of the time.
👉 Check Out Weavy AI
🛠 Tutorial: How To Deploy OpenClaw Securely with HTTPS & SSL on a Hostinger VPS
Description:
In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert insecure HTTP to HTTPS Custom Domain for OpenClaw Docker Container on a Hostinger VPS using Traefik (Reverse Proxy) & SSL Certificate.
What You Will Learn:
🦞 How To Convert HTTP to HTTPS
🦞 How To Add A-Records & Create Subdomain
🦞 How to Edit Docker-Compose.yml
🦞 How does SSL Work?
🦞 What are Environment Variables?
🦞 How does Traefik Work
🦞 What are Labels & Headers
🦞 How & Why To Disable Ports
🦞 How To Create Custom URL for any Docker Container
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🗞️ OpenAI Buys OpenClaw 🦞
📚 Stateless
❞ “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
🧰 Weavy AI
