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Hardware Supply Chain @dessaigne In Shenzhen, a team can go from design to a new physical part in a day. In the US, that same loop often takes weeks, and that gap compounds. The overall stack for rapid hardware iteration still doesn't exist in America, and we want to fund the startups building it.

#New: Bay Area rents (median 1BR): San Francisco: $3,790* Palo Alto: $3,610** Mtn View: $3,380 Sunnyvale: $3,130 Santa Clara: $3,040 Redwood City: $2,930 San Jose: $2,660 Berkeley: $2,270 Oakland: $2,000 *Up 18.5% in one year **Up 14.6% in one year Source: @Zumper

Anthropic is building a secure OpenClaw. Four features in 30 days, each one reverse-engineered from the open-source agent that hit 250K GitHub stars and 40,000 exposed machines. The feature mapping is surgical: OpenClaw: text agent from WhatsApp, it works on your desktop. Anthropic: Dispatch (March 17). Persistent thread from phone to desktop. OpenClaw: Discord and Telegram as control surfaces. Anthropic: Claude Code Channels (March 20). MCP bridge to both. OpenClaw: full OS access, browser control, app manipulation. Anthropic: computer use in Cowork and Claude Code (today). OpenClaw: 100 community skills, no review process. Anthropic: curated plugin marketplace with enterprise admin controls. OpenClaw: heartbeat daemon, always-on 24/7. Anthropic: desktop must stay open. Intentional friction. Runaway prevention. The strategy is legible: let open source take the arrows, ship the enterprise-safe version before anyone else can. OpenClaw proved 250K developers want to text an AI that controls their computer. OpenClaw also proved that desire produces one-click RCEs, CrowdStrike threat advisories, agents creating dating profiles nobody asked for, inbox deletions during “automated cleanup,” and 20% malware rates in skill ecosystems. Anthropic studied every failure mode and built the inverse. Connectors before computer use. Permission prompts before every action. Sandboxed execution. Every constraint maps to a compliance checkbox. Gaps remain. Dispatch requires Anthropic’s own mobile app. OpenClaw works in WhatsApp and iMessage, apps 3 billion people already use. No native messaging integration yet. Cowork needs your Mac awake with Claude Desktop running. No headless mode, no background daemon, no proactive monitoring where the agent messages you first. The “always-on coworker” positioning still requires you to be mostly-on yourself. Here’s where it gets interesting. Steinberger built OpenClaw entirely on OpenAI’s Codex. Said his productivity doubled. Publicly called Claude Opus the best general-purpose agent while building the biggest agent project in history on a competitor’s coding tool. Joined OpenAI February 14. Altman posted he’d “drive the next generation of personal agents” and it would “quickly become core to our product offerings.” Five weeks of “quickly”: GPT-5.4 with strong benchmarks. ChatGPT agent mode in a cloud sandbox. And a March 20 “code red” meeting where leadership concluded product fragmentation was losing them the race to Anthropic’s unified tools. The plan: merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into one superapp. The core loop Steinberger proved, text from phone, agent works on your machine, you return to finished output, doesn’t exist in any OpenAI product. Their agent runs in an isolated cloud browser. No local files. No persistent desktop control. No async handoff. The person who built the most successful personal agent in history is inside OpenAI. The product that reflects his insight isn’t. Anthropic sent trademark lawyers, then shipped the product. OpenAI sent an offer letter, then called a reorg. The agent race rewards shipping velocity over hiring velocity. One company is converting the OpenClaw demand signal into product. The other is converting it into org charts.

Unveiling production-ready @petpinai V0. Bay Area assembly starting. First creator units entering production. Real-time AI wearable built for pets. Watch the demo in the next tweet.

Alexis Ohanian just led our pre-seed to eliminate luxury counterfeiting. Introducing Veritas, the trusted way to verify luxury. $1.75M pre-seed led by 776 and joined by angels and operators from a16z, DoorDash, Vogue, The Disney Family, Chapter One, TechCrunch, & more.

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