March 20, 2026

Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord

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The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a way to hook up its own powerful Claude Code AI agentic harness to a human user's Discord or Telegram me...