All the Claw things (News)

What up, nerds? Sheboy. I'm Jared, and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, 02/16/2026. Open clock creator, Peter Steinberger, announced on Saturday that he's joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. This week's issue covers it in-depth, but I wanna start by congratulating Peter on his meteoric and unprecedented rise. He went from a dev in relative obscurity to creating the fastest growing repo in GitHub history to being at the frontier of AI research and development in a matter of months. We live in absolutely wild times. Okay. Let's get into this week's news. OpenClaw, OpenAI, and the future. Peter Steinberger shares details from inside the whirlwind he's been living in since OpenClaw's moment. Quote, there's an endless array of possibilities that opened up for me. Countless people trying to push me into various directions, giving me advice, asking how they can invest, or what I will do. Saying it's overwhelming is an understatement, end quote. Open clock could have become a huge company, but Peter's not interested in that. Quote, what I want is to change the world, not build a large company, and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone, end quote. Great news for Peter isn't necessarily good news for the open source community. Here's his vision for the future of OpenClaw. Quote, the community around OpenClaw is something magical, and OpenAI has made strong commitments to enable me to dedicate my time to it and already sponsors the project. To get this into a proper structure, I'm working on making it a foundation. It will stay a place for thinkers, hackers, and people that want a way to own their data with a goal of supporting even more models and companies. Zero claw is claw done right. One of my favorite facets of the open source ethos, and I say this sincerely, is the sentiment that anything you can do, I can do better. OpenClaw's success made ports, copies, and remixes inevitable. In that way, zero claw was also inevitable. Quote, zero overhead, zero compromise, 100% rust, 100% agnostic, runs on $10 hardware with less than five megs of RAM. That's 99% less memory than Open Claw and 98% cheaper than a Mac Mini, end quote. That's a long list of bumper sticker comparisons, but it's also a pretty compelling one. Zero claws creators provide benchmarks demonstrating the performance comparisons, but OpenClaw's batteries included approach and gravitational pull might make it difficult to compete with feature for feature. On the other hand, agents are pretty good at cranking out features. Mimiclaw runs on a $5 chip. If you were impressed by ZeroClaws $10 hardware claim, get a load of Mimiclaw. Wait till they get a load of me. Quote, Mimiclaw turns a tiny e s p 32 s three board into a personal AI assistant. Plug it into USB power, connect to WiFi, and talk to it through Telegram. It handles any task …