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OpenClaw goes viral, sparks risk & Enterprise governance for AI agents - AI News (Feb 17, 2026)

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OpenClaw goes viral, sparks risk & Enterprise governance for AI agents - AI News (Feb 17, 2026)
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Today's AI News Topics

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    OpenClaw goes viral, sparks risk

    — OpenClaw’s rapid adoption highlights a new attack surface: local agent assistants inherit employee permissions, making marketplaces and “skills” a supply-chain risk. Keywords: OpenClaw, skills, permissions, prompt injection, enterprise security.
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    Enterprise governance for AI agents

    — Zenity’s webinars frame AI agents as “digital teammates” that need policy, least privilege, containment, and observability—plus practical governance for shadow AI. Keywords: AI security, governance, compliance, posture management, Zenity Learning Lab.
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    Agents in the wild: Manus and Telegram

    — Manus AI tried a near one-click always-on agent via Telegram as the persistent ‘front door’—then Telegram suspended the account, raising platform dependency questions. Keywords: Manus, Telegram, persistent memory, integrations, credit-based pricing.
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    Agentic coding: edit buttons and IDEs

    — From exe.dev’s ‘Edit with Shelley’ to xAI’s Grok Build parallel agents, agentic development is shifting toward wiki-like software and multi-agent IDE workflows. Keywords: slinky, Shelley, parallel agents, arena mode, Claude, IDE.
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    Microsoft builds MAI to diversify

    — Microsoft is building in-house MAI foundation models under Mustafa Suleyman while still hedging with OpenAI, Nvidia/AMD, and third-party models on Azure. Keywords: MAI, Maia chip, Fairwater data centers, Azure, OpenAI partnership.
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    Tokenizers and why links hallucinate

    — A reverse-engineering look at OpenAI’s o200k_base tokenizer suggests big efficiency gains for code, URLs, and non-Latin scripts—plus camelCase-aware pre-tokenization and tool-token variants. Keywords: tokenizer, tiktoken, o200k_base, camelCase, tool tokens.
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    RL for agents: Forge and Composition-RL

    — MiniMax’s Forge tackles the RL ‘impossible triangle’ for agentic models, while Composition-RL boosts RLVR by composing verifiable prompts—both aiming for stronger reasoning with scalable training. Keywords: reinforcement learning, agents, verifiable rewards, Forge, Composition-RL.
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    Data quality systems for human judgment

    — Welo Data argues AI fails quietly when human evaluation isn’t operationalized into calibrated, auditable workflows with drift monitoring and QA loops. Keywords: data quality, human judgment, calibration, auditability, drift detection.
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    AI backlash: slop, scams, bullying

    — Several pieces warn that AI’s harms are becoming everyday: harassment, deepfakes, scams, open-source maintainer overload, and a worsening ‘dead internet’ feel. Keywords: AI slop, bullying, scams, open source, disinformation.
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    Real-time speech agents: PersonaPlex

    — NVIDIA’s PersonaPlex-7B-v1 is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that can listen and talk simultaneously, enabling interruptions and natural turn-taking for real-time voice agents. Keywords: speech-to-speech, full-duplex, PersonaPlex, Moshi, 24kHz.

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