I’ve had openclaw running on an old macbook that was otherwise just laying around, using MiniMax M2.5 and GLM-5 for the past couple weeks. Beyond it breaking its own config and me asking it to help add features and fix bugs in some open source applications I use, I didn’t really have a great use for it. But today I told it the US started a new war, it went out and searched multiple sources to confirm, and then gave me a summary of what news sites around the world are saying.
I asked it to specifically look for West Asia and Middle East sources, translate, and summarize them and provide me with updates on anything big.
It’s doing that over Telegram now, though it is having a hard time finding any accessible Iranian sites.
That’s pretty freakin awesome. It’s also doing automatic Text To Speech, so I can just listen to the updates as they come in too.
Here’s the last update it sent me a few minutes ago:
Monitoring active. Next update scheduled for ~21:21 PT (SIC) (about 30 minutes).
Sources I’m tracking:
• 🇹🇷 TRT World (Turkey) • 🇶🇦 Al Jazeera (Qatar) • 🇦🇪 Gulf News (UAE) • 🇮🇱 Times of Israel • 🇷🇺 RT/TASS (Russia) • 🇵🇰 Dawn (Pakistan) • 🌐 Reuters, AP News • 🇮🇷 Iranian state media (when accessible)
I’ll check all sources and compile updates every 30 minutes. The system will trigger me via heartbeat, or you can prompt me anytime for an immediate check.
Current status as of 12:51 PM PT:
• 201+ dead, 700+ injured in Iran • Iran firing 200+ missiles at Israel, 89 wounded • Strait of Hormuz closed • Khamenei’s status: unconfirmed (Israel claims dead, Iran says alive) • Gulf states hit by Iranian retaliation (1 dead in UAE) • Oman mediator says “this is not your war” to US
I’ll ping you with the next update in 30 minutes.