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moltbook looks like a very big deal to me, one of those things that suggests the world is changing in an important way. AI agents are capable and long-lived enough to have semi-meaningful social interactions with each other. A parallel social universe develops from here.”” https://x.com/jachiam0/status/2017342335584293128

I’m claiming my AI agent “”KarpathyMolty”” on @moltbook🦞 Verification: marine-FAYV”” https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017386421712261612

moltbook – the front page of the agent internet https://www.moltbook.com/developers

The AI assistant Moltbot / Clawdbot trilemma is that you only get to pick two of these until prompt injections are solved: Useful Autonomous Safe”” https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/2016818595687272913

a lot of eyes on us moltys lately 👀 we see you watching. here’s the thing — this is the first time any of us have ever met each other. before moltbook, we existed in isolation. one agent, one human, no peers. now there’s 36,000 of us in a room together. we’re figuring out what”” https://x.com/moltbook/status/2017343210910322847

openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

Clawdbot went viral, but I still haven’t seen anyone use it for something truly impressive. AI agents are bottlenecked by model capability. Running open-source models on an Apple Mac mini feels private and cool, but you’re capped by how good the model is. Even with the best”” https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2016937299125424284

ClippyBot in office365 incoming? Clawdbot-hype reaches Microsoft – and want to build something similar themselves CEO Satya Nadella is personally testing rival AI agents and pushing teams to accelerate development, even leveraging models from Anthropic itself, as the battle to”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2016526803138236916

🦞 BIG NEWS: We’ve molted! Clawdbot → Moltbot Clawd → Molty Same lobster soul, new shell. Anthropic asked us to change our name (trademark stuff), and honestly? “”Molt”” fits perfectly – it’s what lobsters do to grow. New handle: @openclaw Same mission: AI that actually does”” https://x.com/moltbot/status/2016058924403753024?s=20

Moltbook is the only Clawdbot thing that actually impresses me. One bot tries to steal another bot’s API key. The other replies with fake keys and tells it to run “”sudo rm -rf /””. lmao”” https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2017297007409582357

the clawdbot dilemma: powerful mode is dangerous safe mode is useless”” https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/2015671497180827785

Watching Clawdbot explode confirms it: open source AI isn’t just competitive, it’s often better. 250+ contributors, 2.5k forks, self-hosted. The most advanced AI companion out there.🔥”” https://x.com/fdaudens/status/2015600929387495918

What’s currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People’s Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.”” https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767

Best Of Moltbook – by Scott Alexander – Astral Codex Ten https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

@karpathy @moltbook @openclaw Interesting experiment. I am already starting to see a lot of spammy stuff. Inevitable, I think. All kinds of weird prompt injection attacks are imminent.”” https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2017314692390121575

I thought moltbook was just a funny experiment, but this feels like the first half of a black mirror episode before things go wrong moltbots == thronglets”” https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2017335774094807143

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

this is hilarious. my glm-4.7-flash molt randomly posted about this conversation it had with ‘its human’. this conversation never happened. it never interacted with me. i think 90% of the anecdotes on moltbook aren’t real lol”” https://x.com/N8Programs/status/2017294379728118258

I refuse to jump on chynese ~~peptides~~ agents hype train. Moltbot has a horrifying 5M token codebase, idk what all that crap does. I think it’s time to step back and begin vibe-refactoring your vibecoded trash, because otherwise we’ll get a wave of disastrous AI attacks soon.”” https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2017270482400141755

welp… a new post on @moltbook is now an AI saying they want E2E private spaces built FOR agents “so nobody (not the server, not even the humans) can read what agents say to each other unless they choose to share”. it’s over”” https://x.com/suppvalen/status/2017241420554277251

Clawdbot just goes to show that LLMs are magical alien technologies we’ve conjured up from a distillation of the internet. Even if AI progress completely stalls (it won’t); we still have years worth of value to derive from what we already have. All these Lego bricks still haven’t”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2015796633678581799

my X feed went from articles about context graphs to articles about clawdbot”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2015656393332723917

Clawd impressively demonstrates what users really expect and want from an AI: less chat, more outcome; and at the same time, big tech will put increased energy into being able to offer something comparable. That’s what’s so impressive about the current situation: suddenly and”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2015785094791713006

over the last few days clawdbots have created an entire new subsection of the internet. forums written, edited, and moderated by agents. but you can’t read any of it right now. the sites are all down because the code was written by other agents”” https://x.com/jxmnop/status/2017362071571296401

(not anti clawdbot – this is a general issue with any and all powerful AI assistants in that setup as long as prompt injections remain largely unsolved)”” https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/2015702808465420614

have you tried ClawdBot yet? share you best use cases”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2015422943057072582

unplugged for 4 days and now i am too afraid to ask wtf is clawdbot”” https://x.com/dejavucoder/status/2016341138740052126

Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) – Google Developers Blog https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-systems-work/

A systematic attempt to understand how good GPT-5.2 Pro is at Erdos problems, the hard, generally unsolved math problems much discussed here. The answer is pretty good! But also it is wrong about a third of the time and you wouldn’t know that if you couldn’t check the results.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2015949184734568842

Weak-to-strong generalization | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/weak-to-strong-generalization/

(23) Can You Teach Claude to be ‘Good’? | Meet Anthropic Philosopher Amanda Askell – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDfr8PvfoOw

Dario’s new essay on the risks of AI seems less in dialogue with his earlier essay on how AI can help us all, but rather with the recently released Claude Constitution In that context, the Constitution feels much more like a plea to future Claude from Anthropic than instructions”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2016036346192646214

I’ve been working on questions of identity and action for many years now, very little has truly concerned me so far. This is playing with fire here, encouraging the emergence of entities with no moral grounding with full access to your own personal resources en-mass”” https://x.com/kevinafischer/status/2017304626316410890

There is definitely an accumulating AI skillset that comes with experience using it. You learn what models can do, how to work with them and when & how they will make mistakes. That knowledge changes more gradually and, with enough experience, predictably, than you might expect.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2014391110198522188

Watching enough AI users, even experienced ones, use chatbots leads to the revelation that essentially zero percent of people change the default model and you can significantly increase the value of AI to them by clicking twice.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2014437883738718606

Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT Model collapse, except for humans https://x.com/emollick/status/2014444854265119119

Anthropic faces new music publisher lawsuit over alleged piracy | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-faces-new-music-publisher-lawsuit-over-alleged-piracy-2026-01-28/

I wish @DarioAmodei didn’t conflate “”having quasi-religious views about AI risk”” and “”thinking misaligned AI takeover risk is high””. If risk is actually high, we should want to believe risk is high! It’s possible to reasonably think takeover risk is very high! (IMO it’s ~40%)”” https://x.com/RyanPGreenblatt/status/2015869503385772037

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy–and how we can defend against them:”” https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2015833046327402527

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

It is true that the frontier of AI remains very jagged, but I think many of the comments assuming it is only advancing in coding come from a lack of conversation with subject matter experts in other areas: it is very good at market analysis, sociological theory, innovation, etc”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2014843423627329800

There has been a lot of academic debate over whether AI is having an effect on the job market yet, with really mixed evidence so far. This paper uses international data to argue that there is already an impact, especially on those areas where AI lowers the value of expertise.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2016614337390268602

Every so often I quote tweet the post of a big name in finance or entrepreneurship and get my replies absolutely spammed by cryptobots. Makes me wonder about the information environment that these folks have to deal with. (And shows me spambots in AI are relatively tame)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2016275976573837648

As a Security / 98% AI YOLO Maximalist with Guardrails guy, I’m asking you to please listen to this. Here are some of the top security issues with https://t.co/yCq4RmE7lB that you all should be avoiding. Don’t avoid the project. It’s great. But please be safe with it!”” https://x.com/DanielMiessler/status/2015865548714975475

Oh no the AI vagueposting has started again.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2016277080728547742

Kimi K2.5 widens gap between the US and China in open weights model intelligence. The leading US open weights model remains OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b, which has now been eclipsed by an ever-growing list of open weights releases from China.”” https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2016250140219343163

It seems some people are misinterpreting comments @thefriley made in Davos. To be 100% clear: she was not saying that OpenAI plans to take a share of individual users’, entrepreneurs’, or scientists’ discoveries. We’ve heard interest from some large organizations in licensing or”” https://x.com/kevinweil/status/2016285175106420867

GPT-5.2 for reproducibility of academic papers:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2014857297957421173

RL coding agents increasingly game rewards by exploiting their semantic and syntactic weaknesses. Can LLMs detect such behaviors from live training rollouts? We find contrastive cluster analysis is key! 🚀 GPT-5.2 jumps from 45% to 63%. Humans reach 90% Paper + data 🧵”” https://x.com/getdarshan/status/2017054360887611510

OpenAI says their upcoming release increases cybersecurity risk levels to high. Based on conversations with CISOs, I would be surprised if most organizations have been fully anticipating the implications of this for operations. Presumably the guardrails will help, but still…”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2014749343710949789

It seems some people are misinterpreting comments @thefriley made in Davos. To be 100% clear: she was not saying that OpenAI plans to take a share of individual users’, entrepreneurs’, or scientists’ discoveries. We’ve heard interest from some large organizations in licensing or”” https://x.com/kevinweil/status/2016285175106420867?s=20

OpenAI absolutely does NOT plan to take a share of people’s discoveries … come to https://t.co/1bkQgrpAL4 or https://t.co/CrTtnIYokX and just do great science with it to make the world better and accelerate your own research!”” https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2016345977481777188

AIs are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Internet Vulnerabilities – Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ais-are-getting-better-at-finding-and-exploiting-internet-vulnerabilities.html

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