Anthropic Made a Safer OpenClaw & More AI News You Can Use

0:00 All right, welcome to another week in generative AI and yep,

0:03 I'm fully recovered from my surgery.

0:05 Thanks to Igor for hopping in and recording last week's episode.

0:08 We'll have a little segment on behind the scenes on how we did it.

0:11 But this week, there's fewer updates than usual, but there is a clear theme.

0:15 Everybody's trying to build a consumer-friendly open claw.

0:18 So we'll talk about that.

0:19 Plus Google Maps is getting AI integrations and there's an unbelievably

0:23 interesting and cool feature inside of Photoshop I want to show you.

0:25 All of that and more in this week's episode of AI News like a News,

0:28 the show that pulls together all the generative AI releases and we

0:31 filter by the things that actually matter to you as a non-technical consumer.

0:34 Let's start with the big one because all stories recently

0:38 out of the big companies and also the medium-sized startups,

0:40 everybody is trying to build their version of open claw.

0:44 Now, before I get into showing you what updates

0:47 came out and what this actually looks like in practice,

0:49 quick recap on what open claw is.

0:51 So, if you're familiar with ChatGPT,

0:53 basically a chatbot that acts as a work assistant,

0:56 open claw is a personal agent that doesn't just assist you with work,

1:00 but it also gets things done.

1:02 Or it at least tries to get things done.

1:03 People are experimenting with this stuff.

1:05 It's the most overhyped thing on the internet,

1:07 but as we've talked about on the channel before, there is some substance there.

1:11 Now, open claw requires its own machine.

1:14 That's why a lot of people buy Mac Mini so it

1:16 can run 24/7 and it has access to the whole operating system.

1:19 But some of these other apps that we'll be looking at now,

1:21 they're trying to get around that.

1:22 They're trying to make it more consumer-friendly

1:25 where it either runs just through the browser,

1:27 you just go to a site and use it there.

1:28 You don't need an own computer.

1:30 And there's versions of it that are

1:31 actually closer to open claw like Claude Co-work.

1:35 Now, this is where I want to start because I've

1:37 been sharing some updates in Claude Co-work over the past weeks,

1:40 just kind of on the side and saying, "Hey,

1:41 they shipped this feature that brings it closer to open

1:44 claw and this one and this one." But really,

1:45 when I go from using and experimenting open claw to working with Co-work,

1:50 there were two big things on my laundry list that I was missing.

1:53 First of all, it was the ability to schedule certain tasks.

1:55 So if you get something done once, the whole idea is not having to do it again.

1:59 So, scheduling it out.

2:00 They added this few weeks ago.

2:01 You can see the schedule tab in here.

2:03 You can do that.

2:03 And the second big feature is it being a worker of its

2:07 own that I can tell what to do at any point in time.

2:10 And that's a few things.

2:10 One of them is the ability to remote control it.

2:13 And the second one is the base setup

2:14 of an actual computer being there and available 24/7.

2:18 And the big missing link there was the remote control.

2:20 You didn't have an ability to kind of just

2:22 dial in and give it tasks from your phone.

2:24 Where then all of a sudden it would move around files on your computer.

2:27 Well, they just added that.

2:28 And Fropic added this feature, they call it dispatch.

2:31 And look, it's available right here.

2:32 And I'm going to give it a first shot live here on the show.

2:35 You can see this is how they describe it.

2:36 They say you can use your phone like

2:37 a walkie-talkie that can communicate with Claude on your computer.

2:40 Just remember to keep the computer

2:42 on and running so there's something to remote control.

2:45 I'm just going to scan this QR code to pair

2:47 up my mobile app that I also need to update.

2:50 So, yeah, I needed to update this desktop app to have this tab.

2:52 And I also updated the mobile app.

2:54 And if this is going to be the remote control, the second thing is exactly here.

2:58 This is what was missing.

2:58 Keeping the computer awake.

2:59 I can just turn it on here and say finish setup.

3:03 Now, I have to give it access to my desktop folder, my documents folder.

3:06 And there it is.

3:07 Now, I see the same screen on my computer and on my mobile phone.

3:12 So, let's do the classic use case that everybody champions as "Ooh,

3:16 this is the big thing that all of these AI agents can do for you.

3:19 Organize my desktop." And yeah,

3:20 I sent it here and you can see it appearing on the screen.

3:23 By the way, we're doing a fun little experiment as I put up the TV behind me.

3:27 We're mirroring the computer screen onto there.

3:29 Not sure if that helps or makes the scene better.

3:31 If you have any thoughts on this, you can leave them below.

3:33 Anyway, I'll do all of this from my phone.

3:34 It's asking me for access to my desktop.

3:36 So, I'll say allow once and I'm literally

3:38 giving it access to my local MacBook that is, you know, plugged into power here.

3:43 That's recording this video.

3:44 But also Co-work is, you know, getting some work done on this computer.

3:49 Honestly, this is the last big missing piece.

3:51 Sure, there's a few smaller things that Open Claw still has,

3:54 but this was the big one, like the ability to remote control it.

3:57 And once you get something done, scheduling it out.

3:59 It has both of those now.

4:01 It made a plan, I'll just say yes do it.

4:03 By the way, beautiful interface.

4:04 Also, the loading bar, background, everything just looks neat.

4:08 And there it is, it organized it.

4:09 Let's have a look.

4:10 Yep, sure enough when I look at my desktop, it sorted stuff.

4:13 And that's the gist of it.

4:14 So, I think this is really interesting for many reasons,

4:17 but mainly because this is a way more secure version of Open

4:20 Claw that doesn't require a separate machine and it's actually sort of polished.

4:25 This is a a Fropic Claw product,

4:28 not something that you have to install through the terminal.

4:30 And it doesn't even need access to anything.

4:32 It just wanted file access to my desktop and downloads folder here.

4:34 You could even constrain it to its own folder

4:36 so that it doesn't affect the rest of your system.

4:38 Word of warning, if you give it access to files on your desktop,

4:41 I would always make a backup.

4:43 Worst come to worst, give it access to delete those files and there's a non-zero

4:47 percent chance that that will happen somehow if you're careless with it.

4:50 Which, the more you use this, the more careless you get cuz it

4:53 kind of just gets things done and you're also in this mindset of like,

4:55 "Hey, this is supposed to do things for me." So,

4:57 just the very realistic tendency is not

5:00 to double-check every single thing it does for you.

5:02 You kind of just say, "Yeah, just go, just work." And mistakes happen.

5:05 So, there you go.

5:05 Fropic is doing it.

5:06 They're building the first version of this that is actually consumer friendly.

5:09 And I think I was a bit hesitant on covering

5:11 Open Claw on this channel because I think for most consumers,

5:14 this was not the big unlock that a lot of people were making it up to be.

5:17 There's value there, there's substance there.

5:19 I think I'll create more content soon outlining how I'm using

5:22 it and doing some tutorials on this type of stuff, too.

5:25 But, I think I'll be focusing on this because

5:27 this is accessible to most people and I love that.

5:29 Now, as I mentioned, there's a few more releases relating to this this week,

5:33 which I want to touch on here.

5:34 Namely, there's three.

5:35 Gen Spark is making their own version of Gen Spark Claw.

5:39 Manas is introducing My Computer,

5:41 which is essentially a competing product to Gen Spark Claw,

5:44 which is Perplexity's version of Open Claw.

5:47 The Perplexity one being by far the most

5:49 polished version here when it comes to the interface.

5:51 It looks very similar to Claude co-work.

5:53 Also, you need a desktop app, whereas GenSpark and Manus run in the web.

5:57 Now, here's the thing though,

5:58 I think even the makers of this are sort of confused

6:00 by what the actual use cases of this are for most people.

6:03 If you have a few minutes to spare, actually watch this video that GenSpark put

6:06 out titled "Will Let's GenSpark Claw Run Our Company For a Day?" Basically being

6:10 like a use case video from them internally.

6:12 Guys, my conclusion from this is they're equally as confused

6:16 as every consumer on what this should actually be used for.

6:20 Like, seriously, I'm not going to go into more detail here, but what is it?

6:23 Scheduling a family call for this lady and ordering a snack while

6:27 it's setting off a confetti cannon for this guy while reading his email,

6:31 and then it prints a ticket to a museum so he can go with his family.

6:35 I I mean, I don't know.

6:36 It's just so random.

6:37 It's like really trying to help.

6:39 But, I think like most people, they just tried it and they're like, "Okay,

6:42 what are the things that actually move the needle?" And then they're like,

6:44 "Okay, I'm not really sure.

6:46 So, let's show all the different things it

6:47 can do and hope that something resonates." Anyway,

6:50 as you can see, this is where these products are heading.

6:51 AI assistants turning into AI agents.

6:54 Very, very early.

6:55 That being said, there are some cool uses.

6:57 They're always very personal.

6:58 And yes, they go beyond organizing your desktop

7:00 and I'll cover more of that soon.

7:01 Hey, editing ego here.

7:03 Just two really significant updates that happened since the recording.

7:07 One is exactly what you just saw in Claude co-work.

7:10 They added to Claude code too.

7:13 You could basically remote control it from your Telegram now,

7:16 just like Open Claw.

7:17 Okay, that's that story.

7:18 And additionally, one really big thing came out

7:20 and we're already working on a separate video for this.

7:22 It's Google Stitch, a standalone application that combined a lot

7:26 of other features and apps they had into one website designer.

7:30 You could call it a vibe design partner.

7:32 You could also think of it as AI Figma.

7:34 Actually, Figma stock dropped on the release of this and I

7:37 really think it deserves more attention than just a segment here.

7:39 So, we're working on that already.

7:41 Anyway, on to the next story.

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7:49 Now, let's get back to the next story.

7:51 Okay, next up is a really fun one

7:52 that I've been actually looking forward to trying.

7:54 Photoshop has a new feature, okay?

7:56 And even if you're not using Photoshop, this is a good one.

7:59 Basically, it allows you to take objects

8:00 and you can rotate them on three-dimensional

8:03 axes and it just uses AI to generate the other side of the object.

8:08 Finally, a good consumer use for all of these 3D

8:11 tools that we've been looking at for years.

8:13 Okay, let me try this out.

8:14 As per usual, I have a random image of a cat

8:17 with a hat here and let's test out this feature.

8:20 Okay, so let's do a orange background layer with this cat on top.

8:23 Here, I'm just going to say remove background and now transform image.

8:27 And here you can see, this is the new thing, rotate object, okay?

8:31 All right, preparing rotatable object.

8:33 This is unbelievable, guys.

8:34 Honestly, as somebody who's been using Photoshop since,

8:37 what is it, 16 years now?

8:38 I learned it at the age of 16.

8:42 Oh my god, no way.

8:43 Okay, that is that is amazing.

8:45 Okay, it's not perfect, right?

8:47 But look at that, it's a full 3D.

8:48 Oh my god, what's going on under the cat?

8:51 Oh, it's just a flat cat.

8:53 Woah!

8:54 Fair enough.

8:54 Look at that, you can you can put the you can put the guy over here.

8:57 And then it's enhancing the rotated image, okay?

9:00 That's way better.

9:01 Let's duplicate that, edit the rotation.

9:05 Woah!

9:06 Woah!

9:08 [groaning] That's pretty amazing.

9:09 Wow.

9:10 Okay, then additionally, we covered this before,

9:11 but there's this harmonize feature where it,

9:13 you know, adjust the color based on the entire scene.

9:15 So, you don't have to do color correction on the subject that you just cut out

9:19 with AI tools and then rotate it

9:21 with a imaginary 3D model that got created in seconds.

9:24 Eh, there's variations, though.

9:27 Ah, this one is good.

9:27 Look at that.

9:28 Yeah, I like it.

9:29 So, I don't know.

9:30 This is amazing, but there's also part of me that is kind of like,

9:33 "Huh, this used to take skills." I had to build with blood, sweat, and tears.

9:37 Now, it's just the click of a button.

9:38 Yep.

9:39 That's life.

9:39 All right.

9:40 So, if you want to try this, and if you're a Photoshop person,

9:42 this is only accessible for Photoshop beta now,

9:44 but as per usual, try stuff out there and bring it to the main app.

9:47 You do need a Creative Cloud subscription to access Photoshop.

9:50 Okay.

9:51 Let's see what's next.

9:52 Hey there.

9:52 I would love to invite you to an event that I'm hosting in March.

9:55 IBM invited me to teach in an upcoming AI webinar.

9:59 So, if you're interested in AI and don't consider yourself an advanced user,

10:03 then this is designed exactly for you.

10:05 Heck, even people who are deeper into it

10:07 can benefit from a refresher on context engineering.

10:10 Because the title of the session is context engineering for students,

10:13 making IBM Granite your academic co-pilot.

10:16 And it will be a tight 60-minute session

10:17 teaching you the foundational concepts around context engineering.

10:21 is the most essential skill when it comes to working with AI.

10:24 Understanding context is absolutely critical with modern AI tools,

10:27 and I'll be sharing what I learned over the years.

10:29 In the webinar, we'll also be showing off

10:31 some IBM tools like Watson X and Granite.

10:33 Plus, I'll be sharing a bunch of free resources from IBM's Skill Build.

10:37 So, if you're a student looking to get the most out of AI,

10:40 you should totally come check it out.

10:41 But, also if you're not a student, maybe you're 30 years into your career,

10:45 or you're a student of a new topic, you're also more than welcome to come.

10:49 It's going to benefit anybody who's looking to upskill

10:51 and wants to use AI on that journey.

10:53 Which, let's be honest, in this day and age,

10:55 how do you not use AI on a learning journey?

10:57 So, come join me on March 26th,

10:59 2026 at 5:30 Central European Time, which is 11:30 a.m.

11:04 Eastern Time.

11:05 And the link is in the description below.

11:07 Hope to see you all there.

11:08 Next up, and this is going to be a rather quick one,

11:10 but OpenAI has their video generator, right?

11:13 Sora.

11:13 And they brought out a feature which the competition had for a while.

11:17 It's this reference feature where you can bring in different objects,

11:19 and then it uses those create a new video scene with all of the objects.

11:23 Well, we tested it, and it works pretty well,

11:25 but we did a direct comparison to VEO 3.1 doing this, Google's video model,

11:30 and long story short, Sora is just not that good at it.

11:34 Regularly, it just drops one of the objects that it was

11:36 supposed to bring in, whereas VEO 3.1 is very reliable with this.

11:39 If you add the fact that VEO 3.1 just overall looks better,

11:43 I think most people agree on that, then it's OpenAI playing catch-up.

11:46 And while this is a nice feature that is certainly important,

11:49 and they got the viral moment with that, right?

11:51 Cuz they came out so early.

11:52 But if you're looking to create stuff, VEO is probably still the way to go.

11:56 And that's pretty much it.

11:56 That's Sora references update.

11:58 Nice to have if you're already using it.

12:00 Next one is a fun one.

12:01 So, Gemini updated Google Maps, and we had trouble accessing this.

12:05 So, what I'm going to show you here is

12:06 all based on Google's communication and the blog post.

12:09 So, this is a phone-only feature.

12:10 So, it's not going to be in the web,

12:11 and it's also limited to both the US and India.

12:15 And yes, we had Daniel from our team test this, who lives in the US,

12:19 and it did not ship to him yet.

12:20 In typical Google manner, they announce something, and then,

12:22 I don't know, it ships whenever they feel like it.

12:25 But basically, we weren't able to get access to these features,

12:28 but they look really amazing.

12:30 They're finally adding AI into the Maps application.

12:33 And if you haven't seen this yet, this is really great.

12:35 I don't know about you,

12:36 but sometimes I get confused when I use these navigation apps.

12:38 Like, which exit is it?

12:39 Is it this one or this one?

12:40 And the visualization does not do it justice.

12:42 Like, I really try to pay attention to which exit it is,

12:45 and I still miss it sometimes.

12:47 Sure, the arrows help,

12:48 but if there's four lanes over here and four lanes over there,

12:50 and then like highways on the side, and a cross road above, like,

12:54 it's not clear which one is the lane on the left,

12:56 especially if you travel a lot.

12:57 Generally, it's just impressive.

12:58 As they say, it really takes out the guesswork.

13:01 And additionally, there's also a feature that uses the context

13:04 of your previous searches to make better recommendations in the future.

13:07 Basically, it's using your search history inside of the Maps

13:11 application to inform better results moving forward, which is amazing.

13:15 From a consumer standpoint, that's really going to help.

13:18 I would absolutely love for it to know

13:19 my preferences for restaurants a bit more when I travel.

13:23 Anyway, all of this looks really impressive,

13:24 and I I wait to actually try this out myself on the phone.

13:27 If you're in the US, this might be worth a shot.

13:29 Update your Maps app, see if you have it already.

13:31 Another example of Google just having the edge because they have all

13:35 the main apps and your data and the AI muscle and they ship stuff.

13:39 Then just a question of when it actually arrives on our phone, but that's fine.

13:41 We'll wait.

13:42 And this next story is also Google and relates to this.

13:44 We're not going to spend too much time

13:45 on this, but basically there's a new Google Workspace with Gemini update,

13:49 just like every second week for the past 6 months, I feel like.

13:52 They basically shipped a way to use Gemini inside of your workspace,

13:56 which includes PowerPoint and sheets.

13:58 And it's just the same connectors feature that we've

14:00 seen out of Gemini and all competitors a while ago,

14:02 where it tries to connect into your other apps,

14:04 but now it's focused on workspace.

14:06 So, I guess this is an angle where it's supposed

14:08 to work for your whole team and then your workspace account.

14:11 It's just something that hasn't been reliably working for me or anybody

14:14 that I know and they're just shipping it into more and more products.

14:18 I don't know.

14:18 I feel a little bit skeptical on this one.

14:20 Theory, obviously, it's a great idea and this is a beta feature.

14:23 When we tried out, it was not this version

14:25 and it's not clear which accounts it's available on.

14:28 Is it Pro and Ultra or is it Ultra only?

14:31 I mean, it says both, but on the Pro subscription I can't see it.

14:34 It says nothing about the location.

14:36 Anyway, I guess the story is Google is trying to link all

14:38 of your different applications into one and it's a work in progress.

14:41 Okay, so those are the main stories for this week, but a few more things.

14:44 First of all, I want to briefly talk about how we made the AI

14:47 Your Episode last week cuz a lot of you were curious in the comment section.

14:50 The tool stack is pretty simple.

14:52 We used ElevenLabs for the voice and HeyGen for the avatar.

14:55 One fun thing that we did in the production and in the script writing is we

14:58 gave it a list of vocabulary that I use that we wanted to use in the writing.

15:03 I know a lot of you already have documents that kind of outline

15:05 the style that you want to write in, but this is a really fun addition.

15:08 If you add a list of words that you use uniquely, that's really going to help.

15:11 And then also I'll say certain sections we had to regenerate multiple times.

15:14 There's no way of just nailing it on the first take.

15:17 And eventually it did take a lot of work,

15:19 but I think the team did did amazing job considering I

15:21 was just here on the couch on pain medications trying to survive.

15:24 And I mean, I'm laughing now,

15:26 but like it was a tough week and I'm glad we still got the episode out.

15:28 And I think it's pretty amazing that most people seem to agree that, hey,

15:31 that was actually pretty good, surprisingly good.

15:34 You know, not as good as the real deal, but yeah, it's like pretty good.

15:37 It can get the information across.

15:38 And I thought this comment by kids6121 was really

15:41 interesting where he said he listens to the video

15:43 every week while doing chores for the last

15:45 2 years and he couldn't tell the difference.

15:47 And I thought this was interesting if you're only listening, yeah,

15:49 the voice is so good and the writing is really close to how I speak.

15:53 But yeah, I think the video creates

15:54 the biggest disconnect and again, as I stated,

15:56 it's just an experiment we ran last week keeping things real on here.

16:00 There's also this quick story that I thought was interesting.

16:02 It's a Florida man selling his house using ChatGPT

16:05 40 and he made a challenge out of it.

16:07 He wanted to use it for every part.

16:08 So he took pictures of the rooms and asked,

16:10 what could we do here to increase the value?

16:12 Recommended repainting a few rooms, created a timeline, wrote a description,

16:16 and even made recommendation on timing when to put

16:18 up the listing which ended up working really well.

16:20 In the end he concluded that, you know,

16:22 while it couldn't do everything, the impact these tools make is very real.

16:26 And then lastly, there's also this trend in the AI space where they're trying

16:28 to move away from these walls of text

16:30 and more towards visual or interactive elements.

16:33 And OpenAI shipped this feature called interactive learning.

16:37 And we tested it a bunch and basically

16:38 our conclusion was this is really hard to invoke.

16:40 They say this is supposed to help you learn math and science,

16:43 but with all our math and science questions,

16:45 it's kind of like a 10 to 20% hit rate of it actually coming up.

16:48 Whereas Claude shipped a feature that actually works super well.

16:51 so well that we created a separate video on this.

16:52 If you want to see that, Claude visuals, it's like giving AI a whiteboard.

16:56 We created a quick standalone video just showing you tips and tricks

16:59 around that cuz we thought it was worth a standalone video.

17:01 But yeah, this is happening.

17:02 That's pretty much everything I have for this week.

17:03 I hope you found something interesting or useful.

17:05 My name is Igor and with that, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week.