… Manus AI vs OpenClaw That all sounds very OpenClaw-like, and indeed, on a surface level, Manus AI feels a lot like OpenClaw in the cloud. Yet as I mentioned earlier, Manus AI and OpenClaw are also very different, starting with the fact that Manus AI was acquired by Meta in December 2025. …
The viral OpenClaw AI tool has already spawned dozens of imitators on GitHub and has spurred pivots from major AI players like Meta. Now Perplexity is throwing its hat into the personal AI agent arena, with a new tool that can put teams of sub-agents under your command. …
… OpenAI, meanwhile, is reportedly cranking out a desktop “superapp” that integrates ChatGPT with Codex, OpenAI’s agentic coding app, and the Atlas AI browser, with the new app capable of unleashing AI agents that “work autonomously on a user’s computer to carry out a variety of tasks,” such as “writ… …
… There’s proof of this in the wild—we’ve already seen repeat stories of AI agents deleting files they were not asked to, with a prominent recent example being a Meta exec losing 200 emails to OpenClaw. Of course, you can approach agentic AI use more carefully, as my colleague Ben Patterson explains. …
… Arm's first chip will be called the Arm AI CPU, designed for "AI data centers running agentic AI workloads" -- most likely, powering Meta's own AI efforts in the cloud. …
… More in AI this week Prompt of the week: The "Prompt Decomposition Meta-Prompt" If you have a complex task for an AI, the last thing you want to do is give it a fuzzy prompt; doing so is a recipe for getting a fuzzy result. Indeed, the bigger the ask, the more detailed your AI prompt should be. …
… If the answer’s no, then keep that file out of your AI’s workspace. Do put your AI assistant on a tight leash The same goes for AI coding agents. Most personal AI assistants will ask you what level of oversight you’d like over their activities. …
… I’d argue that we’re at a similar pre-VisiCalc moment with AI. Yes, I know, Claude Code is a killer app, but it’s only killer for a narrow slice of users. For the rest of us, AI remains an imperfect fit, like if I can recycle a metaphor trying to use a socket wrench to slice a wedding cake. …
… As such, most AI developers take a “CUDA-first” approach to their tools, treating other architectures like Apple Metal and AMD’s ROCm platform, which plays a CUDA-equivalent role in terms of connecting software applications to its GPUs as an afterthought. …
… Once you get the AI’s output from this “prompt decomposition meta-prompt,” you can begin tinkering, refining the AI’s decisions, and ultimately guiding it to the result that's right for you. …