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From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How This AI Agent Went Viral, and Changed Identities, in 72 Hours

Macy Meyer / cnet - An AI tool that can text you and use your apps? It blew up online. What came next involved crypto scammers, IP lawyers and more.


Developer Tools & Integration Innovations

China’s cloud giants race to support Moltbot, the ‘AI that actually does things’

5 wks / scmp

Chrome gets agentic AI upgrade

5 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

I made a one-liner to deploy your own AI assistant (Moltbot) to Fly.io with WhatsApp integration

5 wks / reddit / /u/PoetSad977

Made a free tool to help you setup and secure Molt bot

5 wks / reddit / /u/crowkingg


Moltbot Security Flaws on the ground

Moltbot Punched Through Every Security Wall. Attackers Followed.

5 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

The viral Clawdbot AI agent can do a lot for you, but security experts warn of risks

5 wks / digitaltrends

Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work

5 wks / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent

5 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Viral Moltbot AI assistant raises concerns over data security

5 wks / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

Give Your Problems (and Passwords) to Moltbot, Then Watch It Go

5 wks / wired / Will Knight


Other: Market and Use-Case Perspectives

Cloudflare (NET) Stock: Slides 10% as AI Buzz Fades

5 wks / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Automation of day to day tasks

5 wks / reddit / /u/Dangerous_Block_2494


Rapid Rebrand, Crypto Scams & Legal Tussles

Clawdbot Chaos: A Forced Rebrand, Crypto Scam and 24-Hour Meltdown

5 wks / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How This AI Agent Went Viral, and Changed Identities, in 72 Hours

5 wks / cnet / Macy Meyer


All Other Stories

Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent

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

A viral new virtual assistant formerly known as Clawdbot is complex and brings security risks—but some early adopters say it feels like the future. www.wired.com/story/clawdb...

5 wks / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 18504 / 16 stories in 5 wks


Google launches Major Gemini AI Update for Chrome in Canada: What’s New

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Google is rolling out new AI features for Chrome that bring its Gemini assistant directly into the browser, starting on macOS, Windows, and Chromebook Plus, according to the company on Wednesday. The update adds a new Gemini side panel in Chrome that lets…


Auto Browse Innovations

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/28/2026

5 wks / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

Chrome Now Browses for You

5 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf

5 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome

5 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

New Gemini in Chrome brings ‘auto browse’ and side panel

5 wks / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Chrome introduces AI-driven auto browse to handle multi-step online actions

5 wks / digitaltrends

New Google Chrome AI Agent Navigates Web for Users

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Google Unleashes AI in Chrome with ‘Auto Browse’

5 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today

5 wks / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You

5 wks / wired / Reece Rogers


Side Panel and Nano Banana Enhancements

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

5 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Chrome Adds Gemini AI Sidebar and Auto Browse to Counter Rivals

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Google adds AI image generation to Chrome browser, side panel option for virtual assistant

5 wks / techxplore

Google launches Major Gemini AI Update for Chrome in Canada: What’s New

5 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Google adds AI image generation to Chrome, side panel option for virtual assistant

5 wks / go

Google Gives Chrome an AI Side Panel and Lets Gemini Browse for You

5 wks / cnet / Macy Meyer

5 Big Changes Coming To Google Chrome In 2026 (Whether You Like It Or Not)

5 wks / bgr

Google lets the browser take control with major updates to Gemini in Chrome

5 wks / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

Google Issues Major Updates to Gemini in Chrome

5 wks / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Google brings more Gemini AI features to Chrome browser

5 wks / cnbc

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks

5 wks / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Google brings its Nano Banana image generator to Chrome

5 wks / engadget / Igor Bonifacic


All Other Stories

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5 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat. www.wired.com/story/google...

5 wks / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

NEW: Google’s “Auto Browse” AI tool includes a warning that attributes responsibility to users for the bot’s actions. “Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads a disclaimer on the demo version. “You are responsible for Gemini’s actions dur

5 wks / bsky / @thiccreese.bsky.social / thiccreese.bsky.social

Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat. www.wired.com/story/google...

5 wks / bsky / @thependrake.bsky.social / thependrake.bsky.social

I feel a disturbance in the Force. As if millions of security consultants were slamming their heads repeatedly on their desks. www.wired.com/story/google...

5 wks / bsky / @brucebuckman.bsky.social / brucebuckman.bsky.social

Google Chrome is adding Gemini in sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users

5 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 18497 / 28 stories in 5 wks


Apple and Nvidia considering Intel for 2028 chip production, report claims — non-core products may be outsourced, driven by tariffs and geopolitical concerns

tomshardware - Apple and Nvidia are reportedly working with Intel to produce some of their products in the U.S., but it is an open question which of their products Intel can actually make.

#ai #genai #business #internet #apps #ux #media #technology #assistant

Apple and Nvidia considering Intel for 2028 chip production, report claims — non-core products may be outsourced, driven by tariffs and geopolitical concerns

5 wks / tomshardware

Yahoo launches Scout beta to bring conversational AI to its 250 million users

5 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

New Yahoo Scout AI Search Delivers The Classic Search Flavor People Miss via @sejournal, @martinibuster

5 wks / searchenginejournal / Roger Montti

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 11:20 am / permalink 18493 / 3 stories in 5 wks


Kimi Open-Sources K2.5 Model, Adding Advanced Vision Understanding, Coding, and Agent Cluster Capabilities

pandaily - Moonshot AI has open-sourced its new Kimi K2.5 model, bringing native multimodal reasoning, advanced coding support, and scalable Agent cluster capabilities to developers and enterprises.

#ai #ml #opensource #computervision #genai #assistant #api #developertools #moonshot #kimi

Moonshot’s newest release narrows US-China AI model development gap: analysts

5 wks / scmp

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, claims most powerful open-weight model with 100-agent coordination

5 wks / the-decoder / Jonathan Kemper

[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100 parallel Agent Swarm manager

5 wks / latent / Latent.Space

Kimi Open-Sources K2.5 Model, Adding Advanced Vision Understanding, Coding, and Agent Cluster Capabilities

5 wks / pandaily

Moonshot AI releases open-source Kimi K2.5 model with 1T parameters

5 wks / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 12:21 am / permalink 18472 / 5 stories in 5 wks


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Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply‑chain risk; company vows legal fight

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Oracle and OpenAI scrap Texas data-center expansion; Meta eyes the spare capacity

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SoftBank seeks massive $40B loan to back OpenAI investment, courting big risk

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OpenAI launches Codex Security agent to automatically detect software vulnerabilities

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