AI Barcelona

One Hour, One Idea, One Hundred Thousand Stars One evening in November 2025, an Austrian developer sat down and connected a messaging app to Claude Code. The idea was simple: what if an AI assistant could not just answer questions, but actually do things — read files, run commands, send messages, browse the web — all from a chat interface on your phone? It took him about an hour to build the first working version. He thought it was so obvious that the major AI labs would ship something similar within days. They did not. So he kept going. That developer was Peter Steinberger. The project he built — originally called Clawdbot, then briefly Moltbot, and finally OpenClaw — became one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, accumulating over 247,000 stars and nearly 48,000 forks within weeks of going viral. It generated a feature in Lex Fridman's podcast, coverage in Fortune, TechCrunch, and dozens of technology outlets worldwide, and eventually a job o...

AI+ and Compute Sovereignty: Who Controls the Intelligence Layer? At MWC 2026, the conversation has quietly shifted. Last year, the spotlight was on networks becoming AI-native. This year, under the broader AI+ theme, the real question is no longer how infrastructure adapts to artificial intelligence. It is who controls it. AI is no longer an application running on top of networks. It is becoming the organizing logic of the digital economy. Models decide. Agents act. Systems optimize autonomously. The intelligence layer is emerging as a strategic asset. And whoever owns that layer owns leverage over industry, institutions, and markets. This is where compute sovereignty enters the debate. From Connectivity to Control Telecommunications once revolved around bandwidth, latency, and coverage. Today, those metrics remain necessary but insufficient. Intelligence now sits above connectivity. Large-scale models process data, generate decisions, and increasingly orchestrate other sy...