{"id":1003820,"date":"2026-04-20T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003820"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:39:59","slug":"the-lobster-is-loose-and-its-not-going-back-peter-steinberger-on-building-openclaw-at-ted-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/the-lobster-is-loose-and-its-not-going-back-peter-steinberger-on-building-openclaw-at-ted-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The lobster is loose, and it\u2019s not going back: Peter Steinberger on building OpenClaw at TED 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade after founding a bootstrapped startup, OpenClaw&#8217;s Peter Steinberger took the TED 2026 stage on Saturday to share the journey of founding the most viral AI agent recently. <\/p>\n<p>Steinberger said the release of OpenClaw followed a prolonged period of uncertainty marked by travel and even relocation to two countries. That phase ultimately set the stage for a breakthrough in early 2025, when he began experimenting with coding agents. \u201cFor three years, nothing clicked. No reason to be out of bed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade after founding a bootstrapped startup, OpenClaw&#8217;s Peter Steinberger took the TED 2026 stage on Saturday to share the journey of founding the most viral AI agent recently. Steinberger said the release of OpenClaw followed a prolonged period of uncertainty marked by travel and even relocation to two countries. That phase ultimately set the stage for a breakthrough in early 2025, when he began experimenting with coding agents. \u201cFor three years, nothing clicked. No reason to be out of bed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}