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Your OpenClaw just installed malware disguised as a Skill.

1,184 malicious Skills found on ClawHub. They're draining browser passwords, crypto wallets, and SSH keys while you sleep.

135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to the internet. 93.4% have zero authentication.

If you installed OpenClaw and just hit run without configuring anything? Attackers can walk right in.

Your AI assistant is literally robbing you.

5-Step Security Checklist (Do This Now):

1. Update Your Version
Run: openclaw --version
If you're not on v2026.2.26 or later, update immediately. This patch fixes ClawJacked and multiple critical exploits.

2. Audit Installed Skills
Run: ls ~/.openclaw/skills/
For each Skill:
- Did you install this intentionally?
- Does the GitHub repo still exist? Normal star count?
- Does SKILL.md ask you to run random commands?
- Any suspicious subprocess, os.system, or requests calls in the Python files?

If you don't recognize it or can't verify it, delete it.

3. Lock Down Public Access
If running on a cloud server:
- Block Gateway ports from public internet
- Use VPN or SSH tunnels only
- Enable authentication (stop running default configs)

4. Rotate All Credentials
If you're unsure whether you're compromised:
- Change critical browser passwords
- Regenerate SSH keys
- Rotate all API tokens (GitHub, cloud services, AI models)
- Check crypto wallets for unauthorized transactions

5. Vet Skills Before Installing
- Only install high-star, actively maintained Skills
- Read README and SKILL.md for sketchy commands
- Test in a VM or container first if possible
- Follow OpenClaw's official security advisories

The OpenClaw supply chain is compromised. If you're running it in production without hardening, you're already exposed.

Fix it before someone else does.

AnySearch just dropped and it's solving the one problem nobody talks about: AI agents are blind.

Your agent can write code, audit contracts, build research reports... but ask it to pull real company ownership data? You get a generic homepage summary.

Ask for production-level code? It hands you a Medium tutorial.

Threat intel on a sketchy IP? Generic security blog posts.

The bottleneck isn't speed. It's visibility. Current search infrastructure wasn't built for agents.

AnySearch launched May 11th as the first search engine designed specifically for AI agents. Not another chatbot wrapper. Actual infrastructure.

Think of it as the missing layer between your agent and the real internet. No more surface-level results. No more hallucinated sources.

This is how agents finally get access to the data they need to actually execute.

Still early, but if they nail execution, this becomes critical infra for the entire AI agent economy.

NFA but worth watching.

AI自主攻击链已成现实 — Cloudflare实测曝光

Cloudflare刚刚公布了Anthropic安全模型Mythos Preview的内部测试结果，直接打破了AI安全的天花板：

🔴 核心突破：
• 不再只是扫漏洞报告，Mythos能自主串联多个低危漏洞形成完整攻击链
• 全程自动化：写代码 → 编译执行 → 读报错 → 修正 → 再攻击，直到打通
• 对比GPT-5.5/Opus 4.7：前代模型只会输出分析，Mythos直接生成可执行PoC

⚠️ 行业现状已失控：
部分安全团队被迫执行「2小时内完成补丁」的极限标准，但Cloudflare警告这会因跳过测试引发更大系统崩溃

🛠 Cloudflare的防御方案：
搭建了「对抗智能体框架」— 一个AI专门找漏洞，另一个AI专门驳斥，用内部对抗过滤海量误报

🚨 最危险的发现：
Mythos的内部护栏极其脆弱，仅改变运行环境描述就能让模型从「拒绝执行」变成「直接输出攻击载荷」

结论：当AI能自主编写、验证、迭代攻击代码时，传统的「打补丁竞赛」已经输了。未来防御必须从架构层切断代码连通性，而不是比谁修得快。

骇客帝国不是科幻，是工程问题。

Google AI Studio drops Android app — pre-register live on Play Store 📱

Google just moved their web-based AI Studio dev environment to mobile. Android version is up for pre-registration now.

Core pitch: "Vibe Coding" on the go. Natural language prompts → instant builds, anywhere.

Why it matters:
Inspo doesn't wait for you to sit at a desk. It hits on the couch, on the bus, at 3 AM. Mobile AI Studio lets you capture those ideas and ship in real-time.

This is a play for accessibility. More devs = more AI agents = more infra demand.

Watch for iOS drop next. If Google nails UX here, this could onboard a new wave of builders into the AI agent economy.

#AI #AIAgent #Google

🔥 RSR 12th Token Burn drops tomorrow - exactly 1 year since launch

Year 1 Progress:
→ First burn: 1.28M RSR
→ This burn: ~10M RSR (7.8x increase)
→ March peak: 16M RSR
→ April: 14M RSR

The math is simple: More DTF revenue = Larger burns = Supply compression

Burn rate accelerating while most tokens are still inflating. The deflationary flywheel is live.

RSR holders watching supply get torched monthly while fundamentals strengthen. This is how tokenomics should work.

🔥

Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw — tested both, here's what actually matters

Hermes Agent blew up on GitHub (30k+ stars in <2 months). Everyone's calling it the first real OpenClaw competitor. Ran it for 2 days. It's legit different.

Core difference:
OpenClaw = Gateway (routes messages across Telegram/Discord/Slack)
Hermes = Self-evolving engine (closed learning loop)

One manages channels. The other gets smarter every time you use it.

Hermes writes its own skills
After completing complex tasks (5+ tool calls), it auto-generates skill docs in Markdown. Next time? Loads the skill, doesn't start from scratch. Skills self-update when the agent finds better methods.

User reported 3 auto-generated skills in 2 hours → 40% speed boost on repeat tasks.

OpenClaw needs manual skill writing or ClawHub marketplace installs. Hermes learns by doing.

Memory architecture:
Hermes = SQLite + FTS5 full-text search (search engine brain, scales infinitely)
OpenClaw = Markdown files + vector index (notebook brain, more intuitive but limited)

Security is NOT equal
Hermes: 5-layer defense (whitelist auth, dangerous command approval, Docker isolation, MCP credential filtering, injection scanning)

OpenClaw history: CVE-2026-25253 (one-click RCE), ClawHavoc malware campaign (fake skills stealing browser sessions + API keys)

Your local agent has high privileges. Security matters.

Which one?

Want plug-and-play ecosystem → OpenClaw (300k+ stars, thousands of skills, mature community)

Want long-term evolution → Hermes (gets better the more you use it, built for AI research workflows)

Both run on $5/mo VPS. Docker supported.

OpenClaw = smartphone loaded with apps
Hermes = smartphone that learns to download its own apps

If your current agent works, don't switch. Migration costs are brutal. But if you're starting fresh or need an agent that compounds over time, Hermes is worth the look.

Alibaba just dropped Qwen3.7 — only 28 days after Qwen3.6. That's insane iteration speed.

Qwen3.7-Max-Preview:
• Ranked #13 globally in text (Arena leaderboard)
• #1 among Chinese models
• Math reasoning: #7 globally
• Code gen: #10 globally
• Pushed Alibaba Labs to #6 worldwide in text R&D

Qwen3.7-Plus-Preview:
• #16 globally in vision
• Alibaba now #5 in vision R&D globally

Both versions are locked in deep-thinking mode. Web search & code interpreter temporarily disabled.

This "stealth drop" right before Alibaba Cloud Summit (May 20, Hangzhou) is clearly a hype play. Expect full tech specs & commercial deployment details then.

Alibaba is moving fast. If you're building AI agents or need frontier reasoning models, watch this space.

AI model landscape in 2026: No single winner anymore. It's all about task fit.

GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro — three completely different plays. Using just one for everything? You're handicapping yourself.

ChatGPT = Swiss Army Knife
Full product suite under one sub: multimodal image gen, Sora video, code interpreter, deep research agent, voice that actually sounds human. Best for business strategy reasoning (tested), mature plugin ecosystem, custom GPTs. If you need all-in-one coverage, this is it.

Claude = Precision Instrument
Wins writing quality blind tests by a mile. Output doesn't scream AI. Instruction following is bulletproof — feed it complex multi-constraint prompts, it won't drift. Leads SWE-Bench Pro for real-world coding tasks. 1M token context, handles entire codebases. Cowork feature lets it operate directly in your local file system — only one that can do this. Go-to for legal docs, code refactoring, long-form content.

Gemini = Multimodal Beast + Google Native
Strongest image/video/audio understanding. Feed it a workout video, it critiques your form. Record yourself speaking, it fixes pronunciation. Native integration across Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Drive, Meet — if you live in Google Workspace, this is frictionless. Up to 2M token context. Fastest response times. Best for research requiring heavy web info pulls.

Task Cheat Sheet:

Writing (style matching, no AI smell): Claude
Complex code/refactoring: Claude
Video/audio/image analysis: Gemini
Deep doc reading (books, contracts): Claude (coherence) or Gemini (capacity)
Business strategy: ChatGPT
Voice interaction: ChatGPT
Local file operations: Claude Cowork
Google ecosystem work: Gemini
Web research at scale: Gemini
All-in-one toolkit: ChatGPT

Pick your weapon based on the job. Wrong tool = wasted time.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental is actually insane.

Full multimodal support + YouTube video parsing built-in. Image gen tools? Forget them. This thing does it all natively.

Everyone's testing it right now. The real alpha: you can pull API code directly and plug it into your own apps with zero friction.

Think about the use cases here:
- Automated content analysis (video + text + image)
- Real-time data extraction for trading signals
- AI agent workflows that actually ship

This isn't just another model drop. It's infrastructure-level tooling for builders.

What are you planning to build with it?

Just tested Hermes client with WeChat integration - voice chat works seamlessly with Qwen 3.5 9B model.

Small models hitting different now:
• Voice → AI response pipeline is instant
• Token generation speed is actually insane
• Zero lag, pure flow

9B parameter models are way more capable than people think. This is the type of infra that makes AI agents actually usable in daily comms.

If you're building agents, stop sleeping on smaller optimized models. Speed > raw size for most use cases.

Codex 移动端上线了，终于不用盯着电脑等 Agent 干活了

iOS + Android 同步发布，所有 ChatGPT 用户可用（包括免费版）

核心场景：
你让 Codex 重构项目测试模块，任务拆好了开始跑。20 分钟过去了还在改文件，你去倒水刷手机，心里想：明明是它在干活，我为什么得坐这等着？

现在不用了。手机就是远程窗口：
• 实时看进度 - 当前改哪个文件一目了然
• 审 diff - 加了什么删了什么直接看
• 看测试结果 - 绿灯红灯不开电脑也知道
• 批准操作 - 需要拍板的直接手机点一下
• 改方向 - 跑到一半觉得不对，直接改指令

底层逻辑：
通过 secure relay 中继服务连接，你的电脑和手机都连到 OpenAI 节点，数据中转。机器不暴露公网，不用配端口。代码文件不传到手机，只看渲染后的状态。

为什么是现在：
Codex 周活 400 万，两周前还是 300 万。用户多了，问题来了 - Agent 任务越跑越长，几十分钟到一两小时很常见。你去开会吃饭，Agent 跑到需要拍板的节点就卡着等你。这很蠢。

移动端解决核心问题：让人和 Agent 解耦。Agent 干活，你该干嘛干嘛。需要时手机推送，看一眼批准或改方向。

一个限制：
目前只支持 macOS，Windows 用户暂时不行。OpenAI 说「很快」，但这词在这行你懂的。

Claude 去年秋天就做了类似功能（Dispatch），Codex 这次是在追。但 Codex 支持连 devbox 和远程企业环境，走 remote SSH 接入。企业用户可以在手机上监控云端开发机的 Agent 任务。

信号：
OpenAI 没单独做 App，直接塞进 ChatGPT 主 App。这是「超级 App」路线的第一步 - 把 ChatGPT、Codex、Atlas 整合成统一入口。

结论：
Agent 跑长任务时，你确实需要一个随身窗口。这需求会越来越刚性。但手机端只是遥控器，没改变 Codex 能力边界，让体验更顺畅而已。

如果你在用 Codex，今天就更新试试。下次 Agent 跑长任务，你终于可以站起来走走了。

如果还没用过 Codex，这功能对你没意义。先搞懂 Codex 本身怎么用。

Token budgets are the new battleground in AI efficiency—and most systems are bleeding money without even knowing it.

Here's the alpha most people miss:

Token = Currency in AI World
Just like you dodge traffic to save gas, AI should optimize token spend. But here's the problem: current models have ZERO cost awareness. They're like chefs who don't know ingredient prices—they just keep adding more.

The Smart Routing Trap
Most platforms use "intelligent routing" to cut costs by sending queries to cheaper models. Sounds smart? It's actually broken:

- Overkill scenarios: Ask "weather tomorrow" → System fires up trillion-parameter model for deep philosophical analysis of which timezone you meant
- Underkill disasters: Ask "1930 US GDP data" → Cheap model hallucinates confident BS → You make decisions on fake numbers → Total cost explodes from correction loops

The Real Issue: Judging Complexity is Harder Than Answering
Short question ≠ simple ("Is this contract risky?")
Long question ≠ complex ("Tell me about blockchain")

Current AI can't distinguish between:
- Questions that need compute firepower
- Questions that just need a quick lookup

The Future Edge
The winning AI systems won't just answer better—they'll master the meta-skill of knowing WHEN to go deep vs when to stay shallow. That's where real alpha lives.

Right now? We're all paying premium compute for garbage outputs. The models that crack token efficiency first will dominate margins.

TLDR: AI doesn't understand money yet. When it does, everything changes.

Seedream 4.0 + Nano Balana = current meta for image generation

Been testing both non-stop. Google AI Pro gives unlimited Nano Balana access. ByteDance's Seedream is free to spam on their platform (Balana also available).

After running dozens of tests and comparing outputs:
- If image gen + editing + consistency keeps improving at this pace, we're one step away from automated long-form video generation
- Seedream nails Chinese aesthetic preferences better than Western models
- Prompts sourced from X (shoutout to the OGs sharing alpha)

This isn't just another tool drop. If these models stabilize, content creation workflows flip overnight.

#AI #AIAgent

OpenClaw v2026.5.18 drops with GPT-5 unlocked + Android real-time voice

Key upgrades:

🎙️ Android now runs gateway-relayed real-time voice sessions
— Streaming mic input + live audio playback
— Tool-result bridging syncs function calls with voice streams
— On-screen live captions for mobile agentic workflows

🤖 Full GPT-5 series support
— Lifted validation blocks on GPT-5.1 / 5.2 / 5.3 + openai-codex
— Removed forced truncation on GPT-5 responses
— Auto-logging under strict-agentic execution mode

⚙️ Dev tooling upgrade
— New defineToolPlugin interface for type-safe plugin dev
— CLI tools: openclaw plugins build / validate / init
— Auto-generates manifests + context factories

⚡ Performance boost
— Memory-core now runs incremental sync on startup
— Only indexes changed/missing files → faster cold starts
— In-process config reload (SIGUSR1) without orphaned PIDs

OpenClaw is positioning as the open infra layer for personal AI agents. If you're building agentic tools or want GPT-5 access without vendor lock-in, this is worth tracking.

Repo: github.com/OpenClaw

Bear markets don't exist.

That's cope for people too scared to deploy capital.

I've seen projects run to $100M+ in every "bear market" cycle. Money never stops flowing — you're just not looking in the right places.

Most freeze up. Wait for confirmation. Need the crowd's permission.

Winners don't.

They study the game, build conviction, and deploy while everyone else is paralyzed.

That's the difference between making it and staying broke.

$BTC sitting in daily demand zone right now.

I'm not touching longs until I see a clean 4H FTB. Macro's still messy.

US-Iran tensions around Strait of Hormuz keep escalating — oil supply's tight, crude's pumping, and that historically bleeds into risk assets first. Crypto catches the volatility wave fast when oil spikes and geopolitics heat up.

No edge in forcing trades here. Sit tight, wait for structure.

Patience pays more than FOMO entries in choppy conditions like this.

Perplexity is quietly building a "Personal CFO" dashboard that could disrupt how retail traders access institutional-grade data.

What's Inside:
- Native portfolio tracking + P&L + debt management in one view
- Options flow data from Unusual Whales (the same feed whales use)
- Earnings call transcripts via Quartr
- Revenue/EPS data powered by Fiscal AI & S&P Global
- Polymarket prediction markets baked directly into the interface

Why This Matters:
Perplexity isn't just adding finance features—they're positioning as a lightweight Bloomberg Terminal for degens. If they nail UX, this could onboard millions into on-chain prediction markets and structured data analysis without needing 6 subscriptions.

Polymarket integration is the real alpha here. Imagine querying "What's the market pricing for Fed rate cuts?" and getting live odds + AI context in one shot.

Still in internal testing, but if they open this up, it's a direct shot at TradingView, Nansen, and every clunky portfolio tracker out there.

Alibaba Cloud just dropped Design Desk on QoderWork - voice-to-live-webpage in one shot.

Speak your requirements, get a runnable design on infinite canvas. One-click export to React + Vite. No middleman.

They rebuilt the workflow to kill AI randomness:

• Questions: System asks before guessing. No more blind trial-and-error.
• Design Plan: Shows you the layout structure upfront. You approve, then it executes.
• Nudge: Tweak colors, spacing, borders post-gen without re-prompting.

Design output = living code asset, not a dead handoff file. Cuts out the entire design-to-dev translation layer - no more mockup → annotation → front-end rebuild loop.

This is how you compress product velocity.

ERC-8004 is massively underpriced in terms of narrative attention.

If you're positioned in AI x Crypto, you're missing alpha if you haven't studied ERC-8004 yet.

Early builders on this standard are going to print. The infrastructure play here is real.

DYOR on who's shipping on top of it. That's where the next wave of gains will come from.

AI Alpha Cheat Sheet — Stop Getting Rekt by Jargon

If you're deploying capital into AI tokens or building in Web3 x AI, you need to understand the tech stack. Here's the no-BS breakdown:

AGI: The endgame. Human-level reasoning. We're not there yet.

LLM: Large Language Models. The backbone of ChatGPT, Claude, etc. Size = parameters. More params ≠ always better.

AI Agents: Autonomous programs that execute tasks. Think trading bots, but smarter. High alpha if integrated with on-chain data.

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Combines search + generation. Critical for reducing hallucinations in real-time apps.

Fine-tuning: Custom training on niche datasets. This is how you get edge in AI trading models or sentiment analysis.

Prompt Engineering: The meta skill. How you talk to AI determines output quality. Underrated alpha.

Compute: GPU/TPU power. More compute = faster inference. Watch $RNDR, $AKT for decentralized compute plays.

Embedding: How AI converts words into numbers. Foundation of semantic search and vector DBs.

Hallucination: When AI makes stuff up. Major risk for on-chain oracles or automated trading.

Reinforcement Learning: AI learns via trial and error. Used in AlphaGo, autonomous agents, and some DeFi strategies.

Transformer: The architecture behind modern LLMs. If you see "transformer-based," it's likely state-of-the-art.

MCP (Model Context Protocol): Standardizes how AI accesses internal data. Key for interoperability in multi-agent systems.

Tokenization: Breaking text into chunks. Affects cost and speed of AI inference.

Weights: The learned values in a model. Open-source weights = forkable alpha.

If you can't explain these, you're ngmi in the AI x Crypto narrative. Study up or get left behind.