"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.

OpenAI announced on Sunday it had hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw.

Previously known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot, OpenClaw recently became a Silicon Valley darling, charming AI enthusiasts and investors eager to either embrace the bleeding edge or profit from it. The highly capable, web-savvy AI bot has even inspired its own AI-only (or mostly) social network.

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI after fielding offers from both the company and Meta, where Zuckerberg personally tested the viral AI agent.

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

Peter Steinberger's open-source AI agent OpenClaw hit 180,000 GitHub stars and spawned MoltBook chaos. Now Meta and OpenAI want to buy it, but he's determined to keep it free.

Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition: The wild side of OpenClaw…Anthropic’s new $20 million super PAC counters OpenAI…OpenAI releases its first model designed for super-fast