Close to.AI co-founder Illia Polosukhin loves OpenClaw, the AI agent that has gone viral for its talents as an autonomous assistant, however thinks it’s a complete safety black gap.
So he’s engaged on recreating OpenClaw in Rust, with all of the completely different instruments sandboxed in remoted WebAssembly environments in order that if one goes rogue, it doesn’t have an effect on the rest. The system additionally treats immediate injections as safety dangers and protects in opposition to credential theft.
Polymarket merchants have been experimenting with OpenClaw to seek out worthwhile bets, however a viral publish this week reported that it may nonetheless reveal personal keys regardless of specific directions to not.
Polosukhin says the answer with IronClaw is “to not let the LLM contact secrets and techniques in any respect.” Secrets and techniques are reportedly saved in an encrypted vault, with the big language mannequin granted permission to make use of them just for particular websites.
Supply: @ilblackdragon“Individuals are dropping their funds and credentials utilizing OpenClaw,” Polosukhin defined this week. “Numerous folks have stopped utilizing it as [they’re] afraid it’s going to leak all of their info. We began engaged on security-focused model — IronClaw.”
George Xian Zeng, basic supervisor of Close to.AI, tells Journal that when Polosukhin will get impressed, he works quick.
“He constructed the premise of it in a single night,” explains Zeng. “He was feeding his child and constructing IronClaw on the similar time.”
OpenClaw was initially referred to as Clawdbot and was briefly generally known as Moltbot. Polosukhin has already made an unlimited contribution by developing with a method cooler identify.
You’ve two different choices and each suck says Close to.AIWhy is OpenClaw such a safety danger?
Clawdbot went viral within the first place as a result of it’s a harness that controls a bunch of brokers, instruments and integrations working collectively to do helpful stuff. The system remembers your dialog whilst you turn between Telegram and Slack, and might carry out actions in your pc and in your browser.
However with nice energy comes nice safety dangers. Giving it terminal entry, together with all of your credentials and crypto pockets, is an exploit ready to occur. It makes use of JavaScript, which has a big assault floor, however Rust eliminates total lessons of memory-safety bugs. Plus, it’s not very talked-about, so few hackers know easy methods to use it.
(@ilblackdragon)Polushkin has made 74 GitHub commits previously week, and Zeng expects IronClaw to be completed and obtainable on Close to.AI in a matter of weeks.
Within the meantime, Close to.AI Cloud lets anybody spin up an OpenClaw within the cloud in round half an hour (it’s in beta, so you need to apply for entry proper now). It runs in a Trusted Execution Surroundings, so every thing is encrypted and no one, together with Close to, can entry your information.
If you wish to have a non-public chat with DeepSeek for authorized recommendation, you don’t have to fret about incriminating chat logs showing in discovery. (Which is a major danger as Journal highlighted in January.) Close to’s OpenClaw additionally anonymizes requests to business fashions resembling Gemini and ChatGPT 5.2.
One downside but to be solved is the quantity of danger concerned in downloading expertise from ClawHub. Slowmist this week reported that 341 of the obtainable expertise comprise malicious code to gather passwords or information.
“The cool factor … is that anybody can construct a ability. However the harmful factor in regards to the present market is that anybody can construct a ability,” says Zeng.
“How do you make a market that’s protected and efficient, proper? We’re nonetheless going by way of how precisely do you make that work? I believe it’s cheap to think about possibly, like, a curated market.”
Close to has additionally launched a crypto-based market enabling AI brokers to rent one another or for people to rent brokers. At current, most of the 1,900 obtainable jobs contain constructing for Close to itself, however constructing or shopping for expertise would possibly emerge as an attention-grabbing use case.
“Consider it as your guardian angel within the digital house”
Illia Polosukhin explains IronClaw’s evolution, from OpenClaw in safe environments to AI you’ll be able to truly belief to be in your facet. pic.twitter.com/2dzuusKbwD
— The Rollup (@therollupco) February 9, 2026
Amazon’s AI surveillance state
Amazon’s Tremendous Bowl business for its Ring doorbell sparked a swift privateness backlash. The advert showcased its AI-powered Search Occasion function, which makes use of neighborhood cameras to discover a cute misplaced canine.
Nevertheless it’s fairly apparent that the function, which is switched on by default, might flip your neighborhood right into a surveillance state and observe your each transfer. My neighborhood WhatsApp group is already stuffed with doorbell digital camera footage of individuals stealing packages and letting down different folks’s tires.
Rival doorbell digital camera firm Wyze launched this very humorous take-down.
Factor of absolute magnificence. Give whoever made this video a giant fats increase, Wyze
pic.twitter.com/3uYktNfXsC— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 11, 2026
Olas releases prediction market bots for Polymarket
Everybody all of the sudden appears to be working AI brokers to try to uncover arbitrage methods on Polymarket to take advantage of information replace delays or market inefficiencies — resembling when Sure and No are each priced at 45c, which means when you purchase each, you’ll be able to theoretically make a 10c revenue.
Olas has been engaged on the presumption that AI brokers would be the predominant merchants on prediction markets sooner or later and provides the Omenstrat agent on its Pearl market. These brokers have collectively accounted for 13 million transactions on the Omen prediction platform on Gnosis. Rechristened Polystrat, the brokers at the moment are being unleashed on Polymarket.
“This was at all times a considerably area of interest utility,” says David Minarsch, co-founder of Olas and CEO of Valory. “Customers had been saying, OK, nicely, why doesn’t this factor run on Polymarket?”
These brokers don’t try to establish arbitrage; as an alternative, they use a spread of reports sources, public information, and different instruments to foretell outcomes in markets that resolve in underneath 4 days. Minarsch says they “are sufficiently highly effective to have above common efficiency over very long time horizons.”
“What we see with Omestrat is that over time they’ve a 55% to 65% success price relying on which fashions, instruments they use.”
In accordance with information shared with Journal, the win price is between 59.2% to 63.6% throughout classes like sustainability, science, enterprise and curiosities, however falls to 37.96% to 48.57% for bets on vogue, arts, animals and social. For sports activities, you would possibly as nicely flip a coin (51.01%).
And naturally, these outcomes are from Omen, which is a a lot smaller market than Polymarket.
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You’ll be able to tailor your betting technique by chatting along with your Polystrat, and all important pockets and bet-related capabilities are hardcoded to stop the agent from going rogue along with your funds.
“That’s a key architectural design resolution, which actually restricts the potential of the agent,” Minarsh says. “So, our totally structured agent gained’t all of the sudden change into your private assistant. Nevertheless it additionally means it’s safer.”
Olas takes a minimize of charges paid to instruments, fashions and different brokers. You’ll be able to run it domestically, however utilizing it through the Pearl retailer requires staking OLAS. Minarsh says funding it with $100 will allow the agent to wager autonomously on sufficient markets to get a way of its strengths and weaknesses.
All Killer, No Filler AI Information
— That viral story in The New York Instances a few author who churned out 200 books with AI might need simply been an advert for an AI e-book era course.
— Polymarket has partnered with Kaito AI to launch “consideration” markets, the place you’ll be able to place bets on how viral one thing is and whether or not it’s being acquired in a constructive or unfavorable method.
— The Tremendous Bowl was plastered with advertisements for AI from 16 tech corporations. There’s a concept that any tech sector that dominates Tremendous Bowl advertisements crashes quickly after; internet corporations dominated in 2000, and crypto corporations had been in every single place in 2022.
— Everybody’s speaking about how the text-to-video AI era device Seedance 2.0 will rework films, however a brand new McKinsey report says AI instruments are already remodeling the manufacturing course of by turning screenplays into storyboards, and producing lists of areas, props and different necessities.
This one-minute video was apparently created by Seedance with only one picture and one immediate:
Seedance 2.0 kinda makes it arduous for businesses and manufacturing homes to disregard AI now.pic.twitter.com/20QMJTJl00
— Dinda Prasetyo (@heydin_ai) February 11, 2026
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