Lobster buffet: China’s tech firms feast on OpenClaw as companies race to deploy AI agents

China-based usage of OpenClaw has already topped that of the U.S., while driving demand for Chinese lower-cost AI models.

Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ powering ChatGPT and Claude apps

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...