NEW YORK — As a man wearing a neon-blue jellyfish hat fought off draping tentacles to scroll through his phone and find the latest message from his personal AI assistant, three people wearing Pegasus wings flitted through a sweaty Manhattan apartment-turned-ballroom trying to recruit users for their latest AI solution.“It’s getting hot, and the lobster is getting warm,” said Michael Galpert, one of the hosts of the event, encouraging the thousand-plus crowd to settle down so the evening’s presentations could begin.
After Anthropic strongly suggested that Steinberger change its name to avoid any legal issues, the project kept its lobster-themed heritage and eventually landed on the OpenClaw moniker. The software has soared in popularity over the past few months,... [5079 chars]