The Tech Download: Meta, Google enter AI agent race as ‘agentic wars’ heat up

Mihaela Păun

This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Earlier this year, agentic AI tool OpenClaw went viral and everyone and their grandmas were queuing up to get the digital assistant downloaded on their devices. Nvidia's Jensen Huang was effusive with praise, calling the tool the "next ChatGPT," and OpenAI snapped up OpenClaw's creator Peter Steinberger (a sign of the AI lab's own intent in the space). A few months on and the race to develop