Photo: VCG The Xinhua News Agency, on its official WeChat account, published a piece on Sunday introducing OpenClaw — along with a risk warning. The move by the state-run news agency came as the buzzword "raising crayfish" gained Chinese netizens' attention on Sunday, with related topics being some of the most discussed on Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo, the Global Times learned. Commenting on the move, ratsxp, an X user with more than 17,000 followers, wrote that "China's enthusiasm for technology, and even its belief in it, runs deeper than anywhere else in the world." "Raising crayfish" refers to the OpenClaw autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent, due to its logo resembling a crayfish. The agent integrates multi-channel communication capabilities with large-language models (LLMs) to build customized AI assistants equipped with persistent memory and proactive task execution. It can also be deployed locally in private en ...