{"id":221245,"date":"2026-03-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/openclaw-fever-why-is-china-rushing-to-raise-a-lobster\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:10:09","slug":"openclaw-fever-why-is-china-rushing-to-raise-a-lobster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/openclaw-fever-why-is-china-rushing-to-raise-a-lobster\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw fever: why is China rushing to \u2018raise a lobster\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3345865\/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster\">OpenClaw fever: why is China rushing to \u2018raise a lobster\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3345865\/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3345865\/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-08 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As global concern rises over artificial intelligence and the potential for AI agents to disrupt lives and industries, people in southern China are rushing to embrace the technology even as privacy concerns intensify.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Friday, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings\u2019 Shenzhen headquarters to install OpenClaw \u2013 a popular open-source AI agent software \u2013 on their computers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The crowd, a mix of amateur developers, retired space engineers, housewives, students and AI enthusiasts, gathered following an invitation from Tencent\u2019s cloud-computing unit, with the company\u2019s engineers installing the software for free. Meanwhile, social media was awash with posts offering the same service for fees ranging from tens to hundreds of yuan.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tencent\u2019s initiative reflects the latest effort from a Chinese tech company to capitalise on surging enthusiasm for OpenClaw, which has spilled beyond the developer community to hobbyists and ordinary users.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Tencent\u2019s Shenzhen headquarters to install OpenClaw on their computers. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mark Yang, a Shanghai-based designer and early OpenClaw adopter, said with the AI assistant it felt like having \u201cvirtual staff\u201d that handled assignments and reduced workload.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3345865\/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenClaw fever: why is China rushing to \u2018raise a lobster\u2019? https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3345865\/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster Publish Date: 2026-03-08 10:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/08\/b1987215-99f3-48c8-aae9-6916a93ab38e_2b8847c3.jpg?itok=B5Ux_Uqc&v=1772955289","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221247,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221245\/revisions\/221247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}