February 17, 2026

OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw signals the beginning of the end of the ChatGPT era

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The chatbot era may have just received its obituary. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw — the open-source AI agent that took the developer world by storm over the past month, raising concerns among enterprise security teams — announced over t...