{"id":228774,"date":"2026-03-29T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/openclaw-chinas-latest-tech-obsession-could-be-a-game-changer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:30:12","slug":"openclaw-chinas-latest-tech-obsession-could-be-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/openclaw-chinas-latest-tech-obsession-could-be-a-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw: China\u2019s latest tech obsession could be a game changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/29\/business\/china-openclaw-ai-anxiety-intl-hnk-dst\">OpenClaw: China\u2019s latest tech obsession could be a game changer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/29\/business\/china-openclaw-ai-anxiety-intl-hnk-dst\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/29\/business\/china-openclaw-ai-anxiety-intl-hnk-dst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-29 00:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"source__location vossi-source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Taipei \/ Beijing<\/span><span class=\"source__separator\">\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5i96of001q26qd9206cos1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At China\u2019s hot new tech events, lobsters are everywhere \u2013\u2013 lobster balloons, lobster headbands, lobster plushies in claw machines, even live lobsters in an inflatable kiddie pool.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5ibsoc00053b6rdqjgetvm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But the attendees swarming the meet-ups are not here for<strong> <\/strong>the crustaceans \u2013\u2013 they\u2019re here for the new technology they represent: OpenClaw, an autonomous artificial intelligence tool, which can be programmed to run tasks nonstop with full control of the user\u2019s device.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5ibsod00063b6rhkwu243j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Rather than a simple question-and-answer format like most AI chatbots, OpenClaw uses the same underlying technology to independently operate apps, web browsers or smart home appliances based on commands via commonly used messaging apps like WhatsApp.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5ibsod00073b6r6n0p753y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Created by Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger and released in November, the free AI agent has been hailed as a new way to supercharge productivity. Jensen Huang, CEO of the US chip giant Nvidia, has called it \u201cthe next ChatGPT\u201d and \u201cthe most popular open-source project in the history of humanity.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5ibsod00083b6rk9ss0k8x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In China, OpenClaw has received a particularly fervent welcome among AI enthusiasts and novices alike. According to analysis of global public networks by SecurityScorecard, a New York-based cybersecurity firm, China has more OpenClaw users than any other country, with about double the activity of the US, which has next-largest base of users.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5ibsod00093b6rf8ocf95i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Both tech companies and local communities have organized gatherings for \u201clobster-farming\u201d \u2013\u2013 a popular phrase in China for adopting OpenClaw \u2013\u2013 with some drawing as many as 1,000 participants in major cities. On Chinese e-commerce sites, technical experts sell OpenClaw installation and configuration services for anywhere between $7 and $100.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn5ibsod000a3b6rynospqia@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The hype around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/29\/business\/china-openclaw-ai-anxiety-intl-hnk-dst\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenClaw: China\u2019s latest tech obsession could be a game changer https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/29\/business\/china-openclaw-ai-anxiety-intl-hnk-dst Publish Date: 2026-03-29 00:03:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2265479253.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-228774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228774"}],"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=228774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228776,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228774\/revisions\/228776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}