Browsing: OpenClaw

At today’s Dev Days announcement, OpenAI introduced a new service that promises to provide enormous productivity benefits and probably some massive headaches. Called Dots, the service is basically a cloud-based virtual machine (VM) on which you can spin up AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra.

Earlier this year, I went on record saying that 2026 would be the year of the AI agent. With the seemingly never-ending rollout of agentic AI since then, I feel validated in that prediction. However, I may make one amendment to that statement now: It’s the year of the claw. 

Autonomous agents that browse the web, call APIs, and query Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can encounter services that require an HTTP 402 Payment Required response to be settled before access continues. To use those services without pausing for a human at every transaction, an agent needs a payment path that operates within limits approved…