China’s OpenClaw Gold Rush: How a Viral AI Agent Spawned a New Service Economy
China has seen a rapid, real-world surge of interest in OpenClaw — an open-source AI agent that can run autonomously on personal devices — and that surge has produced a small but booming service economy of installers, preconfigured devices, and paid support. This post summarizes reported facts about how OpenClaw spread, who is profiting, what services are being offered, and the security and policy responses that have followed. What OpenClaw…