The Mac Mini Is Powering the Boom in AI Agents

In the passenger seat of Tyler Cadwell’s Ford Bronco sits a Mac mini hooked up to a portable battery and Starlink internet satellite dish, along with a touchscreen monitor mounted to the dash. Cadwell, the founder of Everything Etched, an Arizona-based small business that sells custom-engraved glassware, has always loved disappearing into the state’s sandstone canyons to brainstorm or crash on a new web project. That used to mean bringing a notebook or laptop, but now the 39-year-old entrepreneur heads out with his artificial intelligence assistant riding shotgun.

The bot has come to life thanks to OpenClaw, an ...