SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute Play, and the Agent Arms Race

Hello, and welcome to SED News. As I'm sure many of you know, this is the different format of SEDaily where we cover tech headlines, we go into a bigger topic in the middle, and then we look at some hacker news highlights towards the end. So as usual, it's myself, Gregor Van, and we've got Sean Falconer as well. Hey, everyone. Hey, Gregor. Hey. Yeah. So we are recording this a little bit closer to our last one than maybe usual, but there's been no shortage of news. But as usual, yeah, I think we've also been doing a lot even in the last two to three weeks. So, yeah, what have you been up to since we last chatted Sean? Personally, I guess the big news on my end is I buy a new house Oh, nice. In San Francisco. So I'm trying to do all the things that you need to do to buy a house here, move, while also simultaneously trying to keep my work life going and also my kids fed and showing up for school and stuff like that. So it's been a lot to balance, but it's exciting. And then I have upcoming travel off to Seattle and then Washington DC in a few weeks as well. Yeah. Busy. Well, again, great that you can also be on the SED news. Absolutely. I mean, this is of course prior priority number one. Like, who cares about those kids eating or not? Yeah. So you gotta get the news up there. Delay signing of the house for a day so we can get SED news done. Exactly. Yeah. On my side, I was actually in Tokyo all of last week. So my work setup basically allows me to work from anywhere, which is very nice. But, I mean, I do base myself in Singapore most of the year. But, yeah, Tokyo, favorite city of mine. But, yeah, I hadn't been in a couple of years. I was hoping to see maybe a little bit more tech advancements there. I guess what I mean by that is it still doesn't feel that when you're kind of using public services, technology has been thought about. It's always like an afterthought. For example, there's a high speed train from the, well, Narita Airport, which is the one that's further away actually from the city. So that's why they have a high speed train. And yet to get the ticket for the train, even if you'd, like, prepurchase it and you have a QR code, you still have to go up to a desk with a human and you still have that human scan and give you a physical paper ticket. Yeah. And, like, it doesn't seem there's maybe a way around it if you are Japanese and can speak Japanese. But to me, walking into, like, what's supposed to be one of the most world's advanced cities and, like, you can't even get on the train from …