Clawdbot is a new AI assistant that can run tasks on your behalf on your own computer—albeit with some security risks.

Clawdbot is designed to act on a user’s behalf. It belongs to a category known as “agentic AI”, systems that can take actions automatically instead of only responding to questions.

The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. By Minho Kim Reporting from ...