OpenAI Just Hired the OpenClaw Founder. Here’s What You Missed.

Something big is happening in AI—and most people are reading about it a week too late.

OpenAI is hiring the founder of OpenClaw, an open-source project that gives AI agents unrestricted computer access, as part of a push to build "digital coworkers" under a project code-named Frontier. We were the first to report the OpenClaw founder was in advanced talks with OpenAI.

That's one story. Here's what else our readers knew first:

Microsoft's panic over Anthropic's Cowork tool, which generates Excel sheets and presentations by operating your desktop. Internal emails show executives fear it could make their core apps less valuable.

Salesforce privately admitted trust in LLMs has declined among its own customers, and quietly rewired its Agentforce product to use scripted actions instead of pure AI reasoning.

None of these stories appeared in the mainstream press first. They broke on The Information, sourced from internal emails, private conversations with executives and reporting that takes weeks, not hours.

AI agents are the biggest platform shift since mobile. The question isn't whether you should be paying attention—it's whether you can afford to be the last person in the room to know.

P.S. We broke the OpenClaw story before the deal closed. Imagine knowing the next one before it happens.