Anthropic debuts Claude Cowork plugins to help users automate more tasks

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC today rolled out an update to Claude Cowork that will enable users to extend its feature set with custom plugins. Claude Cowork is an automation tool that the company introduced for its popular chatbot earlier this month. It can perform mult…

Aoyon Ashraf / coindesk - Moltbook’s viral posts and strange user behavior memecoins, including MOLT soaring more than 7,000%.

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Moltbook: The Good, The Bad, and the FUTURE

4 wks / substack / David Shapiro

Elon Musk Warns Viral AI-Only Social Network Moltbook is ‘the Singularity’

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Moltbook Left Every AI Agent's API Keys in an Open Database, Security Researcher Finds

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Okay, so if anyone could take over any of these "A.i." bots... the chances of 1.) above seem much higher than non-zero? www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @gregpak.net / gregpak.net

www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @spx.fyi / spx.fyi

The guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets. www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @jbakcoleman.bsky.social / jbakcoleman.bsky.social

Can someone please explain to me 1) why anyone even wants this, 2) why the page looks evil, 3) how they suck so bad

4 wks / bsky / @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social / rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

4 wks / 404media / Matthew Gault

Moltbook viral posts where AI Agents are conspiring against humans are mostly fake

4 wks / reddit / /u/MayankWL

The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed. www.axios.com/2026/01/31/a...

4 wks / bsky / @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social / laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

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5 wks / bsky / @tryangregory.bsky.social / tryangregory.bsky.social

AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy https://gizmodo.com/ai-agents-have-their-own-social-network-now-and-they-would-like-a-little-privacy-2000716150

5 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Google debuts ‘Project Genie’ that can generate interactive worlds

Matthew Mountjoy / mobilesyrup - Google is now making its its world generating model available to the general public under the name Project Genie. According to 9to5Google, the model either uses a prebuilt world or lets you describe the environment you want to create, how you want to expl…

#ai #gaming #vr #computervision #google #genai #creativity #media #spatialcomputing #animation

Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

4 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

4 wks / tomshardware

Google’s Project Genie Experiment Causes Video Game Stocks to Suddenly Crash as Investors Believe Games Will Be Made Solely with AI

4 wks / wccftech / Alessio Palumbo

Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool

5 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

Google debuts ‘Project Genie’ that can generate interactive worlds

5 wks / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

Videogame Stocks Slide On Google's AI Model That Turns Prompts Into Playable Worlds

5 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Google expands access to Project Genie, its AI tool that turns photos and text into explorable worlds

5 wks / techspot

Google’s Project Genie Can Generate Photorealistic Worlds You Can Explore

5 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

New Siri: Apple Almost Chose a Different Partner Before Google Gemini

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - In a recent interview with the tech podcast TBPN, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman revealed that Apple was initially "going to rebuild Siri around Claude," the large language model and chatbot developed by the company Anthropic. In the end, though, Apple announced…

#ai #innovation #voice #apple #google #anthropic #genai #assistant #gemini

Google Gemini Apple Logo wallpaper for iPhone

4 wks / idownloadblog / Jim Gresham

Apple uses Anthropic internally despite failed deal to rebuild Siri

4 wks / reddit / /u/app1310

Apple Loses Top Siri Executive and More AI Researchers to Google and Meta [Report]

5 wks / iclarified

Apple Still Preparing Two New Versions of Siri as Some Employees Leave

5 wks / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

New Siri: Apple Almost Chose a Different Partner Before Google Gemini

5 wks / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

What to Expect From Apple in February, Including Revamped Siri in Beta

5 wks / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Some AI researchers have left Apple but that won't affect Siri's big upgrade

5 wks / appleinsider

Apple Loses A Senior Exec Working On Siri And 4 AI Researchers As Talent Bleed Resumes

5 wks / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Apple 'Runs on Anthropic,' Says Bloomberg's Mark Gurman

5 wks / slashdot / msmash

Apple Still Preparing Two New Versions of Siri as Some Employees Leave

5 wks / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

New Siri: Apple Almost Chose a Different Partner Before Google Gemini

5 wks / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

What to Expect From Apple in February, Including Revamped Siri in Beta

5 wks / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Apple could have used Claude to power a future Siri, but Anthropic got greedy

5 wks / appleinsider

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

5 wks / 404media / Joseph Cox

From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Peter Steinberger's self-hosted AI tool has rebranded to OpenClaw after trademark conflicts forced changes from Clawd to Moltbot, reaching 100,000 GitHub stars.The post From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time ap…

#ai #cybersecurity #opensource #dataprivacy #aiethics #genai #assistant #intellectualproperty #openclaw

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Jeffrey Epstein Had a ‘Personal Hacker,’ Informant Claims

4 wks / wired / Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg

Clawdbot users are snapping up the Mac Mini — buy right now for under $550 at Amazon

4 wks / mashable

Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw is cool, but gets pricey fast

5 wks / fastcompany / Jared Newman

Rebranding: AI agent’s legal name changes

Oh God…The Clawdbot Is Now OpenClaw

5 wks / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Security: Vulnerabilities, crypto theft, and data leaks

OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) can manage your entire digital life, but it might leak your credentials

5 wks / techspot

ClawdBot Skills ganked all my crypto

5 wks / ycombinator

Silicon Valley’s Favorite New AI Agent Has Serious Security Flaws

5 wks / 404media / Matthew Gault

Social: AI agents networking on custom platforms

OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network

5 wks / techcrunch / Anna Heim

There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird

5 wks / theverge / Hayden Field

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet

5 wks / ycombinator

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

5 wks / simonwillison / Simon Willison

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Malicious OpenClaw ‘skill’ targets crypto users on ClawHub — 14 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub last month

4 wks / tomshardware

OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) and Moltbook let attackers walk through the front door

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

What is Moltbook actually

4 wks / reddit / /u/Samuellee7777777

OpenClaw Security Assessment by ZeroLeaks [pdf]

4 wks / ycombinator

Moltbots, Talk Among Yourselves

4 wks / techstrong / Alan Shimel

Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

4 wks / ycombinator

The Ambient AI Era: Clawdbot (OpenClaw)'s Ripple Effects

4 wks / substack / John Hwang

OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) can manage your entire digital life, but it might leak your credentials – AI users rush to hand full control of their devices and accounts to always-on local AI "OpenClaw" www.techspot.com/news/111140-...

5 wks / bsky / @techspot.bsky.social / techspot.bsky.social

Pentagon and Anthropic clash over AI weapons and surveillance safeguards

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - The Pentagon wants unrestricted access to AI technology. Anthropic is demanding guarantees against autonomous weapons control and domestic surveillance. A $200 million contract hangs in the balance.The article Pentagon and Anthropic clash over AI weapons …

#ai #techpolicy #defensetech #anthropic #aiethics #genai #government #us #safety #regulation

Pentagon and Anthropic clash over AI weapons and surveillance safeguards

5 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Pentagon and Anthropic Battle Over Claude AI Military Deployment Terms

5 wks / parameter / Trader Edge

Anthropic’s Throwdown on AI Safety Almost Got Lost in a Crazy News Cycle. It Demands Our Attention.

5 wks / newcomer / Jonathan Weber

Pentagon and Anthropic at Odds Over Military AI Applications

5 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Polish-American Startup Mos Health Raises €920K For AI-driven Preventive Health Platform

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Mos Health a Polish-American startup developing an AI Health Partner that delivers personalized health protocols alongside matched supplementation, has raised nearly €920,000 ($1.1 million) in a pre-seed round. The funding will support building its MVP, a…

#ai #startups #analytics #ml #digitalhealth #health #business #apps #wellness #europe

Mos Health secures $1.1M to expand personalised health offerings

5 wks / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Polish-American Startup Mos Health Raises €920K For AI-driven Preventive Health Platform

5 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Polish-American startup Mos Health raises nearly €920k for its AI-powered preventive health and wellness platform

5 wks / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

OpenAI to kill off GPT-4o, along with other legacy models

Erik van Klinken / techzine - OpenAI is permanently retiring its GPT-4o model on February 13, 2026, along with several other older models. Despite bringing it back once after user backlash, the company says improvements in GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.2 now make the transition viable, with only …

#ai #ml #openai #genai #chatgpt #assistant #updates

Bye Bye, ChatGPT-4o: OpenAI Will Soon Retire Several Models, Pushing New GPT-5 Ones

5 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

OpenAI Retires GPT-4o Again Despite User Backlash

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o, and the AI relationships community is not OK

5 wks / mashable

OpenAI to Retire Several Older Models From ChatGPT in February

5 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it

5 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

OpenAI to kill off GPT-4o, along with other legacy models

5 wks / techzine / Erik van Klinken

OpenAI to Retire GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and o4-Mini in ChatGPT

5 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Google Maps Now Lets You Chat With Gemini AI While Walking or Biking

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Google Maps now lets you talk to Gemini while following walking or cycling directions. The latest update is an extension to the AI chatbot's existing conversational navigation feature in driving mode that rolled out in November.You can now ask Gemini hand…

#ai #voice #mobile #google #genai #apps #travel #ux #assistant #gemini

Google Maps Just Made Walking In A New City A Whole Lot Easier

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Gemini for Google Maps Now Supports Walking, Biking on iPhone

5 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Gemini January 2026 Update Brings Auto Browse for Mac

5 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Google Maps Now Lets You Chat With Gemini AI While Walking or Biking

5 wks / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Google Maps Now Lets You Chat With Gemini AI While Walking or Biking

5 wks / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Google Maps adds hands-free Gemini for walking and cycling

5 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Google Maps Brings Gemini to Walkers and Cyclists

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

DeepSeek reportedly gets China's approval to buy NVIDIA's H200 AI chips

Mariella Moon / engadget - The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips, according to Reuters. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received permission from Beijing to buy a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. Reuters says Chinese…