On February 15, 2026, OpenAI confirmed the acqui-hire of Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind OpenClaw, the viral open-source personal agent that hit 198,000 GitHub stars in record time. Meta also bid. Both offered billions. Steinberger chose OpenAI. This single move redrew the competitive map of the agentic economy, giving OpenAI a consumer surface it […] The post OpenAI-OpenClaw Deal & the War for Personal Agents appeared first on FourWeekMBA .