OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen's code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem
Gavriel Cohen, the developer behind the minimalist agent NanoClaw, found his own code inside OpenClaw, used without attribution and without his consent. He walked away from the project publicly, and David Eastman’s story for The New Stack was the most-read story across our publications this week by a wide margin.
Here’s what I see: We gave coding agents autonomy before building the accountability that’s supposed to come with it. And autonomy isn’t in the future. It’s here, now. Anthropic’s recursive self-improvement report, published on Thursday, says Claude now writes more than 80% of the code the company merges. Last week I argued the tokenmaxxing era could be ending and token discipline was the new skill. The cost side is at least getting tools: Paul Sawers reports Cursor cut prices and added enterprise spend controls the same week GitHub’s switch to token billing sent some users’ bills to the moon.
Tokens are getting spend controls. But trust isn’t built like a product feature, and users are starting to take theirs back.
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Fivetran’s CPO: Closed data stacks won’t survive the agent era
An AI agent let loose on a data warehouse can run ten or a hundred times more queries than a human-era analytics workflow ever did. The problem for any closed data ecosystem is that those queries tend to route through the same expensive compute path. In this episode, Anjan Kundavaram, Chief Product Officer at Fivetran, says, “It’s kind of like using a Lamborghini to mow the lawn all the time.” Tune in to learn more.
From Silos to Governance: Securing IT/OT Data Movement
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The Kubernetes rightsizing trust gap: Why the stakes just got higher
AI workloads have made the Kubernetes rightsizing trust gap expensive. Join us on June 24 to see how teams move from human-approved every change to continuous closed-loop optimization — in practice.
Operationalizing AI in Observability: From Debugging to Automated Remediation
Engineering teams have more data than ever, but humans are still the bottleneck, manually stitching together logs and traces to find answers. Join us live on June 30 for a practical look at how Datadog’s Bits AI moves teams from manual investigation to autonomous remediation.
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