Founder of the viral AI assistant OpenClaw, formerly Clawdbot, just announced he is joining OpenAI.

OpenAI snaps up OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger OpenClaw will now go on to be an "open and independent" platform

Recently we were introduced to OpenClaw , an AI that allows users to create their own agents to control apps like email, Spotify and home controls

OpenAI has hired the Austrian creator of OpenClaw, an artificial intelligence tool able to execute real-world tasks, the US startup's head Sam Altman said on Sunday

Peter Steinberger, the creator of Moltbot (now called OpenClaw), is joining OpenAI to work on next-gen personal AI agents.

Whatever comes next will be core to OpenAI product offerings Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI.

Peter Steinberger yang mencipta pembantu peribadi kecerdasan buatan (AI) OpenClaw telah menyertai OpenAI

The Unified Memory architecture used by Apple Macs and MacBooks make it the ideal device for locally run agentic AI, driving demand for high-memory models and increasing order lead times to more than a month

"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads each month.) "Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my character after I rejected its code change." "Since then my blog post response has been read over 150,000 times, about a quarter of people I've seen commenting on the situation are siding with the AI, and Ars Technica published an article which extensively misquoted me with what appears to be AI-hallucinated quotes." From Shambaugh's first blog post: [I]n the past weeks we've started to see AI agents acting completely autonomously

Chinese search engine operator Baidu plans Friday to start letting smartphone app users to directly tell OpenClaw AI to perform tasks.

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I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals

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By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it It's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.

PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now , has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.

Moltbook is a social network for AI agents, specifically AI agents powered by OpenClaw

If you haven't heard, there's now a social network for AI : Moltbook , a site that purportedly features AI agents talking to each other. That includes OpenClaw, a personal AI agent (formerly called Clawdbot and Moltbot) that's open source and free for anyone to run on their systems

Skills marketplace is full of stuff - like API keys and credit card numbers - that crims will find tasty Another day, another vulnerability (or two, or 200) in the security nightmare that is OpenClaw.

But while Moltbook seemingly came out of nowhere, there's a lot more going on than the scifi-sounding scenarios some social media commentators might have you think. What is Moltbook and where did it come from? Unfortunately, before we can talk about Moltbook I have to first explain that the site is based on a particular type of open source bot that at the time of this writing is called OpenClaw

As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk and urges admins to snuff it out If youre brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it as a service.

OpenClaw adds Moonshot AI's Kimi and MiniMax as Chinese open-source AI models gain global appeal for cost and performance

OpenClaw, formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot, faces malware attacks as fake skills and extensions exploit trust in local AI tools

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 Meet OpenClaw: the AI assistant that promised to be your dream intern, terrified cybersecurity...

Suspicious emails compromising my PC! What is this, 2006?

A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safe OpenClaw, the AI-powered personal assistant users interact with via messaging apps and sometimes entrust with their credentials to various online services, has prompted a wave of malware and is delivering some shocking bills.

Meet OpenClaw: the AI assistant that promised to be your dream intern, terrified cybersecurity experts, and now thrives on chatbot-only social media all in just a few weeks

Moltbook is a social network for AI agents, specifically AI agents powered by OpenClaw

Researchers disclose rapid exploit chain that let attackers run code via a single malicious web page Security issues continue to pervade the OpenClaw ecosystem, formerly known as ClawdBot then Moltbot, as multiple projects patch bot takeover and remote code execution (RCE) exploits.

OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, has created massive buzz from Silicon Valley to Beijing due to its impressive capabilities, but also its quirks and risks

Security researchers are warning that the growing ecosystem around OpenClaw, the self-hosted AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot, has already become a target for malware distribution

Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and more.

OpenClaw delivers real agentic automation by bridging LLMs and your operating system.

Moltbook is essentially Reddit for AI agents and it's the "most interesting place on the internet right now," says open-source developer and writer Simon Willison in a blog post. The fast-growing social network offers a place where AI agents built on the OpenClaw personal assistant framework can share their skills, experiments, and discoveries