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Should the law treat autonomous AI โ€˜agentsโ€™ as legal persons?

Almost everyone has heard of OpenClaw, the late-2025 agentic AI release which takes artificial intelligence technology one step further. Rather than leaving the user to turn answers given in a dialogue box into real life action, the latest AI iteration promises to take the final leap of executing tasks autonomously. Users have raved about the productivity gains, likening the tool to employing a tireless secretary. Equally, there are horror stories of raised โ€œlobstersโ€ โ€“ the nickname for OpenClaw...

Just what the doctor ordered: how AI could help China bridge the medical resources gap

Li Bin, a doctor at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, was among the wave of Chinese consumers who snapped up Apple Mac Mini computers during the countryโ€™s frenzied adoption of the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent earlier this year. The young surgeon from Lanzhou, the capital of northwestern Chinaโ€™s Gansu province, bought one to run the open-source program, using it to develop an app to extract and organise information from doctor-patient conversations and lab report photos into...

Tencent expands OpenClaw suite with enterprise tool amid Chinaโ€™s โ€˜lobsterโ€™ craze

Tencent Holdings has launched a new OpenClaw tool for enterprises that promises easy deployment of the artificial intelligence agent as part of the Chinese internet giantโ€™s efforts to capitalise on the โ€œlobsterโ€ frenzy in the country. ClawPro, launched in public beta by Tencentโ€™s cloud unit on Thursday, works as an AI agent management platform for enterprises, allowing them to deploy OpenClaw templates, select models and agents, track token consumption and manage security settings. Tencent said...