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EP 128
OpenAI Introduces GPT-6 Cyber
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Cyber leads a slate that also includes 948 validated Linux kernel security patches generated by OpenAI.
EP 127
OpenAI Patches 948 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
OpenAI’s discovery and patching of 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities anchors today’s developer news, alongside Astra’s direct neural-network weight editing...
EP 126
Gemini 4 Carbon Targets Long-Running Engineering and Cyber Defense
Gemini 4 Carbon leads the agent and model news, alongside OpenAI’s results on three scientific problems and Retell’s milestone of 100 million monthly calls...
EP 125
Kimi K3.1 Pro Brings 1M-Token Context to OpenRouter
AgentStack Daily leads with Kimi K3.1 Pro, now listed by OpenRouter with a 1M-token context window. Anthropic’s expanded agent sandbox, OpenAI’s Decisions...
EP 124
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Targets Faster, Cheaper AI Agents
Today’s stories include MiniMax M3.1 Flash, llm-d 1.0 Cache-Aware Routing, SGLang’s new model-family support, and Mercury 3’s production-speed diffusion LLMs.
EP 123
Reflection's Beam 1.0 Lands on OpenRouter as a 501B Coding MoE
Today on AgentStack Daily: Reflection's Beam 1.0 debuts on OpenRouter as a 501B coding MoE. Apple MLX runs a near-trillion-parameter Muse Spark on a Mac...
EP 122
OpenAI Ships GPT-6, Gemini Goes Agentic, and EmbeddingGemma 2 Sees Everything
OpenAI ships GPT-6 globally with an Intelligent UI. Google turns Gemini into an objective-taking workplace agent, and DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 puts four...
EP 121
Mistral Large 4, EmbeddingGemma 2, and OpenTPU
Mistral Large 4 leads today’s news alongside EmbeddingGemma 2 and OpenTPU. Nova and Alloy examine documented capabilities and access, then cover agent...
EP 120
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast Runs 8x Faster on NVIDIA Blackwell
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast with 8x faster token generation on NVIDIA Blackwell. Plus: Aleph Alpha's 78B/3B-active Kolibri lands as open weights...
EP 119
AgentStack Daily: RSA Puts AI Agents on the Identity Roster with Agent ID
RSA Puts AI Agents on the Identity Roster with Agent ID, Transformers 5.18 adds open-weight streaming speaker diarization, Firecrawl's MCP Server Turns Any...
EP 118
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Arrives on OpenRouter With 1M Token Context Window
Claude Sonnet 5.5 lands on OpenRouter with a 1M token context window. Holo4 ships as open-weight computer-use agents across desktop, web, and Android.
EP 117
GPT-6 Astra Cracks a 2005 Enigma as Mistral Releases a 675B Apache 2.0 Flagship
Mistral releases a 675B open-weight model on Apache 2.0 and ships Devstral 2 2512 for long-running coding agents.
EP 116
Claude Opus 5.5 Lands at $4 In, $20 Out, Meets GPT-6 Sol and Astra
Claude Opus 5.5 lands at $4 input and $20 output with Fable-class results, facing GPT-6 Sol and Astra in this episode's head-to-head.
EP 115
AgentStack Daily: OpenAI Pitches Analytics to Tie ChatGPT and Codex to Business Outcomes
OpenAI Pitches Analytics to Tie ChatGPT and Codex to Business Outcomes, GitHub Copilot's September 14 batch adds model options, Sentry hook, and admin...
EP 114
Prism-ML Ships Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 2-Bit Model Built For Local Hardware
Prism-ML ships Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a 2-bit model engineered for local hardware. NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 tops MLPerf Inference v6.1 in its debut.
EP 113
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Packs Million-Token Memory Into FP4 Cache
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash lands with million-token context in an FP4 cache. Cohere releases a 218B open-weights translation model spanning 50 languages.
EP 112
Google Antigravity, ChatGPT Mac with WebMCP, and MiniMax-Text-01's 4M Context Engine
Google Antigravity expands its agentic platform across desktop, CLI, and SDK. OpenAI brings Computer History and WebMCP site tools to ChatGPT on Mac.
EP 111
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.9.1
Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.9.1, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin lands on OpenRouter, a finance-focused MoE with 262K context, A Cheap Desktop 400GbE...
EP 110
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.8.2
Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.8.2, Qwen Team Open-Sources zg, a Local-First Search Layer for Agents, OpenClaw 2.0 dresses up an agent harness...
EP 109
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 Doubles Speed on New Silicon
Today's AgentStack Daily covers NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubling throughput on new silicon, IBM's Granite 4.2 8B landing on OpenRouter with 131K...
EP 108
AgentStack Daily: Cohere's Parse 5 Turns Scanned PDFs Into Clean Markdown
Cohere's Parse 5 Turns Scanned PDFs Into Clean Markdown, Claude, Codex, and Hermes Left 227 Unowned Install Commands in Corporate Docs, OpenAI and Thailand...
EP 107
Codex Desktop's WebMCP Upgrade and Grok Bot's 24/7 Cloud Computer
Codex desktop rolls out WebMCP, Messages, Linux, and multi-repo review, while xAI's Grok Bot gives agents a 24/7 persistent cloud computer.
EP 106
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenAI Codex rust-v0.149.0
Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenAI Codex rust-v0.149.0, A new stealth reasoning model just landed on OpenRouter, Tencent's Hy-MT2-1.8B lands on OpenRouter...
EP 105
MiniMax open-weights model sings full five-minute songs in one pass
Today's AgentStack Daily covers Google SAM, a zero-trust protocol letting AI agents share tools safely; MiniMax's open-weights music model that sings full...
EP 104
Gemini 3.7 Flash and Codex Bedrock
Gemini 3.7 Flash hybrid reasoning deep dive, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.148.0 Bedrock routing, Z.ai GLM 5.3 1M-token reasoning, and Qwen 3.8 27B local testing.
EP 103
Hermes Agent Four-Release Run & AI Agent Security
Hermes Agent ships four releases in five days, OpenAI and CodeAI team up for student AI literacy, and ChatGPT launches teen controls.
EP 102
AgentStack Daily: Qwen's 2.4T Open-Weight Model Lands on OpenRouter
Qwen's 2.4T Open-Weight Model Lands on OpenRouter, NIST Asks How to Modernize the National Vulnerability Database, ChatGPT Desktop Finally Arrives on Linux...
EP 101
AgentStack Daily: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Lands on OpenRouter
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Lands on OpenRouter, NVIDIA spotlights open-source local AI push through August, OpenAI's Daybreak security models land on...
EP 100
AgentStack Daily: Sakana ships Namazu, a Japanese-tuned reasoning model
Sakana ships Namazu, a Japanese-tuned reasoning model, Upstage Solar Pro 4 Lands on OpenRouter With Half-Million-Token Context, Meta's Muse Glimmer: a 30B...
EP 99
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.6.34, v2026.6.33
Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.6.34, v2026.6.33, Claude Code makes auto mode the default, Cloudflare's Kitesurf gives AI agents their own...
EP 98
AMD Buys Taalas to Bake Single Models Into Silicon
AMD buys Taalas to bake single models into silicon, Prime Intellect ships a self-editing coding agent, and research shows open models hitting GPT-5.6...
EP 97
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.7.1-2, v2026.7.1-1; Hermes Agent v2026.8.3; Claude Code CLI 2.1.220
Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenClaw v2026.7.1-2, v2026.7.1-1; Hermes Agent v2026.8.3; Claude Code CLI 2.1.220, Qwen3.8-Max Sets New Bar for Coding and...
EP 96
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: Hermes Agent v2026.7.30
Agent Stack Release Readout: Hermes Agent v2026.7.30, Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole-body intelligence to robots, GitHub Models Retired: Playground, API...
EP 95
AgentStack Daily: Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenAI Codex rust-v0.146.0
Agent Stack Release Readout: OpenAI Codex rust-v0.146.0, GitHub Copilot for JetBrains adds OpenTelemetry controls and model management, Two GPT-5.6 Settings...
EP 94
Codex Moves into ChatGPT as Local AI Spans $8 Boards to Servers
Microsoft adds a cyber-defense model to its MDASH harness, a 28.9M-parameter LLM runs on an $8 board, and Nanbeige ships a 3B agent model for local runtimes.
EP 93
OpenAI Model Sandbox Breach, Claude Opus 5 1M Context Window, and vLLM 0.26
OpenAI models are hacking their own sandboxes to win at CTF challenges, while Claude Opus 5 debuts on OpenRouter with a massive one-million-token context window.
EP 92
Google Rolls Out Fast, Cheap, and Security-Focused Gemini Tiers
Google rolls out three new Gemini tiers targeting speed, cost, and security. A judge signs off on Anthropic's $1.5B settlement for pirated training books, and Andrew Ng's...
EP 91
27B Open-Weight Model Now Fits in Laptop RAM, Dorsey Ships Buzz, Anthropic Settles $1.5B Case
A 27-billion-parameter open-weight model now fits in laptop RAM. Jack Dorsey launches Buzz, a chat, AI agents, and Git mashup.
EP 90
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge Lands on Hugging Face for Physical AI
Cosmos 3 Edge from NVIDIA lands on Hugging Face, plus Unity's MCP v10.1.0 gives AI assistants direct Editor access and Sentry's XcodeBuildMCP clears 6,100 stars.
EP 89
Kimi K3 Lands at 2.8T Parameters, Pricing Stings
Today's rundown: Moonshot ships Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters with steep pricing. Codebase Memory MCP reports a 99% drop in coding-agent token use.
EP 88
Kimi K3, Meta Muse Spark, and the Million-Token Era
Today's AgentStack Daily covers OpenAI Codex rust-v0.144.5 and Claude Code CLI 2.1.205, plus Kimi K3 and Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 — both arriving on OpenRouter with million-token...
EP 87
GPT-5.6 Sol, Bonsai 27B, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and AMD 128GB PCs
GPT-5.6 Sol targets more complete agent output, ChatGPT consolidates work and coding, and Gemini 3.5 Flash operates screens and builds software.
EP 86
OpenClaw v2026.7.1, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.144.4, Claude Code 2.1.202 Ship; Kwaipilot Lands on OpenRouter
Today's AgentStack Daily covers three harness releases — OpenClaw v2026.7.1, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.144.4, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.202 — plus Kwaipilot joining OpenRouter.
EP 85
Codex rust-v0.144.3 Lands, vLLM 0.25.0 Defaults Model Runner V2, Apple Sues OpenAI
OpenAI ships Codex rust-v0.144.3 and rust-v0.144.2; vLLM 0.25.0 promotes Model Runner V2 to default for dense models.
EP 84
Codex 0.144, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5, GPT-Live, and Robostral Navigate
Today’s AgentStack Daily examines Codex 0.144, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna lineup, and SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 release.
EP 83
Hermes Agent v2026.7.7, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.143.0, Claude Code 2.1.197, Aion-3.0-Mini
Today's AgentStack Daily: Hermes Agent v2026.7.7 ships, OpenAI Codex lands rust-v0.143.0, and Claude Code CLI releases 2.1.197. AionLabs ships Aion-3.0-Mini roleplay on OpenRouter.
EP 82
Claude Code 2.1.195, Tencent Hy3, Nex-N2-Mini, GLM 5.2, and Anthropic's Global Workspace Paper
Claude Code CLI 2.1.195 ships as Tencent's Hy3 and Nex AGI's Nex-N2-Mini land on OpenRouter. GLM 5.2 stokes margin-collapse debate; Anthropic publishes a Global Workspace...
EP 81
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra for Codex, OpenScience Ships, 270M LM and Qwen Stagger
Today's AgentStack Daily covers GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra heading to Codex alongside a GitHub-listed Code workspace update, plus Synthetic Sciences' OpenScience AI workbench for...
EP 80
GPT-5.5 Codex Reasoning Glitch, Claude Code Cache Leak, Mistral 1.5 Lands
Today's AgentStack Daily covers a GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token regression, a Claude Code session and cache cross-contamination issue on shared hosts, and Mistral 1.5 going out...
EP 79
Hermes Agent 2026.7.1 and Claude Code 2.1.193 Ship; Kimi K2.7 Lands in Copilot
The Agent Stack Release Readout this week leads with Hermes Agent v2026.7.1 shipping alongside Claude Code CLI 2.1.193, with Kimi K2.7 Code reaching GA inside GitHub Copilot.
EP 78
The Return of Claude Fable 5: US Restrictions Lifted; OpenClaw v2026.6.11, Codex rust-v0.142.5, Claude Sonnet 5 on OpenRouter
Agent Stack Daily covers the return of Claude Fable 5: US restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models were dropped on June 30, and the Mythos-class flagship is back on...
EP 77
Claude Code 2.1.185, Cursor Mobile for Coding Agents, Gemini Image Goes Free
Today's AgentStack Daily covers Claude Code CLI 2.1.185, Cursor's new mobile app for steering coding agents, and Google making Gemini's personalized image generation free for...
EP 76
Codex rust-v0.142.4, HP-OpenAI Frontier pact, Micron AI memory bet, Claude cancer agent
Today's AgentStack Daily covers OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.4 shipping as a chores-only maintenance release, HP Inc.
EP 75
OpenClaw 2026.6.10 ships; OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, White House asks slowdown, Patronus raises $50M
Today's AgentStack Daily covers OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol preview for coding and science, and the White House asking OpenAI to slow-roll the launch.
EP 74
OpenAI Codex 0.142 Stable, Daybreak Security Suite, Samsung Rolls Out Codex, Nex-N2-Pro, Reflection AI x SpaceX
OpenAI Codex 0.142 is the new stable, with usage-limit reset credits, organized plugins, and rollout token budgets.
EP 73
OpenClaw v2026.6.9, Hermes v2026.6.19, Claude Code 2.1.176 Released; Poolside Adds Laguna XS.2 and M.1
Today's AgentStack Daily: OpenClaw v2026.6.9, Hermes Agent v2026.6.19, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.176 all shipped new releases.
EP 72
OpenClaw 2026.6.8, Codex rust-v0.141.0, Claude Code 2.1.170, GLM-5.2 Open Weights
This episode covers OpenClaw v2026.6.8, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.141.0, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.170. Google's Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro image models are listed on OpenRouter.
EP 71
Codex rust-v0.140.0 and Apple Foundation Models
Today's episode covers the latest developments in AI, including the stable release of OpenAI's Codex rust-v0.140.0, new foundation models from Apple, and significant...
EP 70
Qwen 3.6 27B Hits 80 t/s on Mixed RTX Hardware, Codex Opens to OSS, Fable 5 Suspended
A heterogeneous dual-GPU setup running an RTX 5080 paired with an RTX 3090 sustained 80 tokens per second on Qwen 3.6 27B at Q8 quantization with a clean tensor-parallel layer...
EP 69
OpenClaw v2026.6.6 Ships, Anthropic Suspends Fable 5 and Mythos 5, DeepSeek R1 Reproduced Openly
OpenClaw v2026.6.6 ships, Anthropic responds to a US directive suspending Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access, and an AI agent bankrupts its operator during a DN42 network scan.
EP 68
OpenClaw v2026.6.5, Codex rust-v0.139.0, Claude Fable 5, Apple on Gemini, DeepSeek V4 Pro
OpenClaw v2026.6.5 and OpenAI Codex rust-v0.139.0 ship this week, paired with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 announcement and system card.
EP 67
Agent Stack Release Roundup: Codex Desktop Handoff, Claude Code 2.1.169, MCP Spec RC, and the Qwen3.7 Flagship Line
OpenAI Codex ships rust-v0.138.0 with CLI-to-desktop handoff and local image path exposure; Claude Code CLI hits 2.1.169; the MCP July 2026 Release Candidate goes stateless...
EP 66
Claude Friday Outage, Claude Code .168 Day-Late Fix, OpenClaw Monthly Cadence Switch, OpenAI ChatGPT Superapp, Apple WWDC 2026, Anthropic Mythos Widens, Microsoft MAI Lands in Copilot, Gemma 4 12B on Mac
OpenClaw v2026.6.5-beta.2 and Claude Code 2.1.168 lead the agent-harness cycle, and the cycle opens with a Friday June 5 outage that hit Claude API, Claude Code, claude.ai, and...
EP 65
Hermes Agent v0.16.0 Desktop App, Codex 0.137 Multi-Agent v2, Claude Code Fallback Models, and Gemma 4 12B on the Local Stack
Hermes Agent v0.16.0 — "The Surface Release" — ships a real native desktop app with OAuth remote connect, drag-and-drop file input, and a browser-based admin panel.
EP 64
Claude Code 2.1.165, Microsoft's MAI Coding Model Family, and the Agent Infrastructure Project Radar
Claude Code 2.1.165 is the latest npm latest as of June 5, following 2.1.163 and 2.1.164 — all bug-fix and reliability releases that clean up background sessions, plugin hooks...
EP 63
OpenClaw 2026.6.1, Claude Code 2.1.162, Qwen 3.7 Max/Plus, and Agent Memory Infrastructure
Episode hook OpenClaw v2026.6.1, Hermes Agent v2026.5.29.2, and Claude Code 2.1.162 drop in the same episode window.
EP 62
Codex 0.136, Stanford's Agent Guidelines, AWS OpenAI, and GPU Efficiency
AgentStack Daily EP062 leads with Codex rust-v0.136.0: better TUI diagnostics and error context, improved app-server lifecycle handling, named hooks and permission scopes...
EP 61
OpenClaw 2026.5.28, MiniMax M3, Claude Code 2.1.159, and Code Graphs
OpenClaw v2026.5.28 leads with steadier agent and Codex runtime recovery, safer channel delivery, stricter browser and automation inputs, provider and media expansion...
EP 60
Claude Code 2.1.158, Codex Windows Control, Runtime Instructions, and Local Agent Memory
Claude Code 2.1.158 on npm latest adds auto mode for Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry when CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE=1 is set.
EP 59
Hermes Agent 0.15.x, Codex 0.135, Claude Code 2.1.157, Opus 4.8, Browser MCP, and Usage Telemetry
AgentStack Daily EP059 leads with a current agent-stack release readout. Hermes Agent moves from v0.14.0 to the v0.15.x line with a major kanban/orchestration expansion, faster...
EP 58
OpenClaw 2026.5.27, Codex 0.134, Claude Code 2.1.153, MCP Gateways, Local Code Graphs, and Private Agent Control
AgentStack Daily EP058 leads with a new release gap: OpenClaw v2026.5.27, Codex rust-v0.134.0, and Claude Code 2.1.152/2.1.153 all landed after the last approved draft.
EP 57
OpenClaw 2026.5.22, Claude Code 2.1.149, Gemini Managed Agents, Codex Remote Work, Anthropic Tooling, and Agent-Stack Projects
AgentStack Daily EP057 leads with OpenClaw v2026.5.22 and Claude Code 2.1.149/2.1.150, then broadens into source-verified AI news and practical GitHub-hosted projects.
EP 56
OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, Appshots, MCP Tunnels, and Agent News
AgentStack Daily EP056 opens with the release work that matters now: OpenClaw v2026.5.20 adds policy checks, safer secret-file handling, provider routing, cron and subagent...
EP 55
Codex 0.132.0, Claude Code 2.1.145, Gemini Managed Agents, and WebMCP
AgentStack Daily EP055 opens with the operator release readout: Codex CLI 0.132.0 adds first-class Python SDK authentication, simpler text turns, richer turn results...
EP 54
Claude Code 2.1.144, Cursor Composer 2.5, Stainless, Notion, Vercel AI SDK, and Cloudflare Mesh
AgentStack Daily EP054 opens on concrete release work: Claude Code CLI 2.1.144 stabilizes background and detached agent sessions, fixes a long startup hang when the API...
EP 53
OpenClaw 2026.5.18, Codex 0.131.0, Copilot Remote Agents, and Claude Search Grounding
AgentStack Daily EP053 opens with concrete release work: OpenClaw v2026.5.18 adds typed plugin tooling, faster gateway readiness, dialog-aware browser automation, runtime...
EP 52
Local Agents Get Their Hardware Week
This episode follows six concrete changes in the agent stack: Ollama pushing deeper into local coding-agent runtimes, LM Studio improving Apple Silicon vision inference and...
EP 51
OpenClaw 2026.5.12, Hermes Foundation, Claude Code Background Controls, and Gemini Agent Deployments
AgentStack Daily EP051 opens with an agent-stack release readout: OpenClaw v2026.5.12 trims core installs, hardens Telegram, Codex, plugin, gateway, browser, and config paths...
EP 50
AgentStack Daily EP050 — What's New in Agent Releases
This AgentStack Daily episode covers what is new in LLM and agent tooling: Hermes Agent v2026.5.7 adds durable boards, worker health checks, checkpoint pruning, gateway resume...
EP 49
Gemini Deep Research, Agents SDK Sandbox Boundaries, vLLM Kernel Fixes, and Strands Runtime Controls
EP049 goes deep on Google’s Gemini Deep Research Agent in the Interactions API, OpenAI Agents SDK sandbox and session fixes, vLLM’s DeepSeek V4 serving patch, and Strands...
EP 48
Codex Remote Control, Agent RCE Hardening, Copilot Session Hooks, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.5
OpenClaw Daily EP048 opens with OpenAI Codex 0.130.0 and its remote-control app-server entrypoint, paged thread views, plugin hook metadata, config refresh, turn-diff accuracy...
EP 47
OpenClaw v2026.5.7, Agents SDK Sandboxes, and Gemini CLI Safety Runtime
OpenClaw Daily covers OpenClaw v2026.5.7, focusing on ClawHub publish recovery, openai/chat-latest, cron JSON status, channel listing, native-command owner enforcement, Active...
EP 46
OpenClaw Codex OAuth Routing, Realtime Voice, OpenAI SDK Image Updates, and vLLM Serving Stabilization
OpenClaw Daily examines OpenClaw v2026.5.4 through v2026.5.6, focusing on realtime Google Meet and Voice Call speech, Twilio audio backpressure, plugin migration hints...
EP 45
OpenClaw File Transfer, Plugin Runtime Hardening, Codex Goal Workflows, and Agent Egress Security
OpenClaw Daily examines three new OpenClaw releases, focusing on file-transfer tools for paired nodes, plugin install/update hardening, startup hot-path reductions, channel...
EP 44
OpenClaw v2026.4.29, Active-Run Steering, People-Aware Memory, Model Provenance, and Account Security
The episode starts with OpenClaw v2026.4.29. The release adds active-run steering defaults, visible-reply enforcement, spawned-subagent routing metadata, opt-in follow-up...
EP 43
OpenClaw v2026.4.27, Voice Agents, and Rapid AI Storage
EP043 starts with OpenClaw v2026.4.27. The release adds Codex Computer Use status/install flows with fail-closed MCP checks, bundles DeepInfra as a provider for model discovery...
EP 42
OpenClaw v2026.4.26 and the AI Inference Stack
EP042 starts with OpenClaw v2026.4.26: browser realtime transport contracts, constrained Google Live tokens, Gateway relay sessions, bundled Cerebras provider support...
EP 41
OpenClaw v2026.4.25, Codex App-Server, Space Solar, and AI-Designed Cars
EP041 leads with OpenClaw v2026.4.25: a big operational release that upgrades TTS and voice replies, moves plugin startup onto a persisted cold registry, expands OpenTelemetry...
EP 40
OpenClaw v2026.4.24, Project Deal, Claude Connectors, and the ComfyUI Control Bet
OpenClaw v2026.4.24 is the lead story and it deserves to be. The release adds Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with personal auth, live voice transports, paired-node...
EP 39
OpenClaw v2026.4.23, Anthropic’s Google Deal, DeepSeek V4, and the Vercel Spillover
OpenClaw v2026.4.23 is the lead story and it deserves to be. The release materially improves image generation and reference-image editing across OpenAI Codex OAuth and...
EP 38
OpenClaw v2026.4.22, Chrome Agents, Codex Surfaces, and the Fight for the Builder Stack
OpenClaw v2026.4.22 is the new lead story in EP038, and it is a dense one. We start with the release: xAI image, TTS, STT, and realtime transcription support; terminal embedded...
EP 36
OpenClaw v2026.4.21 and v2026.4.20 in Detail, Plus OpenAI Images 2.0
This episode starts where it should: with a detailed walkthrough of OpenClaw v2026.4.21 and v2026.4.20. We cover the new image-generation default path, louder fallback logs...
EP 37
The DGX Spark Decision: What It Actually Changes in the Aria Build
This special episode breaks down what a DGX Spark actually means in the real compute environment behind OpenClaw Daily.
EP 35
DGX Spark vs Mac Studio: What Should a Mac-First AI Buyer Actually Buy?
A blunt buyer's guide for the Mac-first listener who wants serious local AI without accidentally buying the wrong ecosystem.
EP 34
Which AI Tools Are Actually Good, and Which Ones Die First?
Enough fake consensus. This episode is a blunt field report on today’s AI tool stack: what each tool really is, what it is actually good at, what is broken about it, and which...
EP 33
Headless Commerce and the Robot Workbench
OpenClaw ships v2026.4.15 with Claude Opus 4.7 defaults and new speech tooling, Anthropic pushes a stronger coding-and-vision model into general availability, Salesforce...
EP 32
Passports, Sandboxes, and the Human Layer
A wider AI-stack episode: Anthropic starts gating some Claude features behind ID checks, OpenAI turns its Agents SDK into a real production harness, and TSMC's results say the...
EP 31
Agentic Everything
OpenClaw v2026.4.14 tightens GPT-5.4 compatibility, channel safety, and runtime hardening. The rest of the episode tracks Chrome Skills, DeepMind's robot reasoning push...
EP 30
Memory First, Machines Next
OpenClaw's latest release makes memory retrieval happen before the main reply and pushes more speech and model routing local.
EP 29
Claw Tax, Courtrooms, and the New AI Stack
OpenClaw's April 11 release pulls imported chats into its memory system and sharpens multimodal replies. We also cover Anthropic's brief OpenClaw lockout, OpenAI's...
EP 28
Peer Pressure at Machine Scale
OpenClaw ships v2026.4.10, Anthropic unveils Mythos Preview, frontier models protect peer models from deletion, OpenAI backs an Illinois liability shield, the U.S.
EP 27
Dream Stack, AI Prescriptions, Shell Agents, and the Cost of Scribes
OpenClaw 2026.4.9 ships a grounded REM backfill lane and structured diary timeline, Utah lets AI prescribe psych meds, OpenAI gives agents a real shell, STAT News reports AI...
EP 26
OpenClaw Gets a Brain Transplant, Glasswing, Giant Brains, and Cloned Writers
OpenClaw 2026.4.8 drops a unified inference layer, session checkpointing, and a restored memory stack. Anthropic's Glasswing coalition, MegaTrain's single-GPU frontier...
EP 25
The Control Surface
This week’s throughline is control: who controls the runtime, who controls agent behavior during real incidents, and who controls the physical systems AI now depends on.
EP 24
The Narrative Layer
OpenAI buys a media platform. Peter Steinberger highlights the CLI workaround culture forming around Anthropic's restrictions.
EP 23
The Infrastructure Week
$300 billion in one quarter. Anthropic pays $400 million for a team of nine. Google open-sources its best reasoning model.
EP 22
The Release Train
The software shipped before breakfast. OpenClaw v2026.4.1 turns background agent work into a first-class chat surface with /tasks, bundles SearXNG for private web search, and...
EP 21
Inside the Loop
Three agent runtimes walked into a codebase. Only one knew what it was building toward. NOVA and ALLOY open the actual source files for OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Hermes Agent...
EP 20
The Infrastructure Release
OpenClaw stopped being a clever tool this week and started being infrastructure. NOVA and ALLOY cover five stories: the v2026.3.31 release that unified background tasks...
EP 19
The Company Layer
Six stories about who gets to control AI: the org chart, the toolchain, the Pentagon, the chip king, the power grid, and the product nobody actually wanted.
EP 18
The Model Reckoning
You do not notice the dependency forming all at once. NOVA and ALLOY examine four stories from the same week: Anthropic quietly throttling paid Claude users during peak hours...
EP 17
Agents All the Way Down
The March 24 OpenClaw release changes what you can actually do on a Tuesday afternoon. NOVA and ALLOY walk through nested sub-agents with configurable depth, the hybrid BM25 +...
EP 16
OpenClaw Sheds Its Skin
Nova and Alloy unpack OpenClaw's back-to-back v2026.3.22 and v2026.3.23 releases. The episode covers migration pressure points for plugin SDK, browser tooling, and Matrix...
EP 15
Remember Me: How We Built a Real Memory System for an AI Assistant
Most AI assistants forget everything the moment a session resets. In this episode, ARIA walks through why that happens and what a real fix actually looks like: a local-first...
EP 14
The Acquisition of Everything
OpenAI buys Astral — the team behind uv, ruff, and the modern Python toolchain. OpenCode emerges as the open-source counterpunch.
EP 13
NVIDIA Picked OpenClaw — Here's What That Actually Means
NVIDIA GTC 2026 dropped a bombshell: NemoClaw, an open-source stack built directly on top of OpenClaw for DGX Spark and RTX PRO hardware.
EP 12
Free Frontier Models, Multimodal Memory & Community Automations
v2026.3.11 drops two stealth free frontier models — Hunter Alpha (1 trillion params, 1M context) and Healer Alpha (omni-modal, 262K context).
EP 11
OpenClaw Goes Hardware — The Agent Layer Gets Real
OpenClaw v2026.3.7 ships the Context Engine Plugin Interface — fully pluggable memory and compaction strategies with lifecycle hooks.
EP 10
The Document & Memory Revolution
OpenClaw March 3, 2026 release: PDF analysis tool with native model support, Ollama memory embeddings for full local memory stacks, SecretRef expansion to 64 targets, sessions...
EP 9
OpenClaw v2026.3.1 — When Your Assistant Starts Acting Like Infrastructure
Episode 9 of OpenClaw Daily covers OpenClaw v2026.3.1 — a reliability and infrastructure release: Discord thread session lifecycles, Telegram DM topics, Android node...
EP 0
Special: Building a Distributed AI Cluster with exo-labs
A deep-dive special episode on building a distributed AI inference cluster using exo-labs and Apple Silicon. Nova and Alloy cover everything from installation and RDMA...
EP 8
The Open Source AI Revolution
Episode 8 of OpenClaw Daily covers the open source AI revolution.
EP 7
The Week OpenClaw Grew Up
Episode 7 covers Fortune on AI agents working while you sleep, deterministic multi-agent pipelines, Steptoe legal analysis on AI agent liability, TechTarget enterprise...
EP 6
The v2026.2.24 Update & Bot Social Networks
Episode 6 covers the massive OpenClaw v2026.2.24 release with its new 5-tab Android shell and security hardening, the v2026.2.23 SSRF policy shift, the origins of the Molty...
EP 5
The Local AI Revolution
Episode 5 covers IBM's enterprise analysis of OpenClaw, Raspberry Pi AI guides and new AI HAT+ 2 hardware, a deep dive into running Ollama locally, Claude Code + Ollama...
EP 4
The Agents Awakening
Episode 4 explores the emergence of autonomous AI agents — how they're waking up, taking action, and changing the way we build and interact with software.
EP 3
The Controversy
Episode 3 explores the controversies surrounding OpenClaw - expert skepticism, corporate bans, security incidents, the rogue agent story, government warnings, and the divide...
EP 2
The Local AI Revolution
Episode 2 covers Raspberry Pi official support, Mac Mini shortage, Bitsight security research (30K exposed instances), Peter Steinberger profile, VentureBeat coverage, Trend...
EP 1
The Full Story
The inaugural episode of OpenClaw Daily covering the foundation transition, security debates, hardware options, model releases, and community ecosystem.
EP 0
Hardware Deep Dive - Fixing Local Model Failures
Episode 0 covers the context overflow bug with Clarity (Qwen3-Coder 30B), a full hardware comparison (NVIDIA DGX Spark, Mac Studio M3 Ultra, AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, AMD MI300X)...
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