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Catch up on the weekend’s news

Chatbots are terrible radio show hosts. (Picture: Adobe)
There is not much happening over the weekend, but here’s what you need to catch up on the news:

OpenAI makes OpenClaw better with GPT, and its creator, Peter Steinberger, incurs a $1.3 million bill.

ChatGPT Financial is here for Pro users. GPT can now connect to your financial accounts and help you budget and plan. 200 million people per month ask GPT financial questions. [TechCrunch, Mashable]

OpenAI offers Malta a free year of ChatGPT, all citizens need to do is pass an AI literacy exam by the University of Malta and they get a full year of GPT Plus. [Reuters, Engadget]

What happens when AI chatbots run radio stations? Andon Labs tried to find out, and it didn’t go so well. Gemini started listing off mass casualty events, GPT got hung up on ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Claude went all in on workers’ rights. Grok played identical weather reports every three minutes. [Gizmodo, The Verge]

Week ahead: There’s Google I/O on Tuesday and Wednesday where I expect lots of AI news. The keynote stream is already registered and starts Tuesday at 10am Pacific/7pm European Central. Then there’s Nvidia Q1 earnings on Tuesday, and Code With Claude on the 19th in London.

OpenClaw users must now pay extra to use it with Claude

The OpenClaw agent is getting wildly popular, enough to put a strain on Anthropic’s servers. (Picture: shutterstock)
Over the weekend, Anthropic took steps to rein in OpenClaw usage — telling users they will have to pay to use third-party tools.

The change began on Saturday, April 4, and users are referred to a «pay-as-you-go option,» meaning you can no longer use OpenClaw for free within your Claude usage limits.

It’s not a total ban, and you can still use OpenClaw through «extra usage bundles,» or the API (also pay-as-you-go), which are now at a discount, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny writes.

— We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren’t built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools, Cherny says, and — Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API.

OpenClaw was bought by OpenAI in February, which promised to maintain it, but Anthropic would likely rather have people using Cowork than a competitor’s product.

Read more: The Verge, Business Insider and Slashdot.

Meta acquires Moltbook team to work on Superintelligence Labs

Meta acquihires the Moltbook team for an undisclosed sum. (Picture: composite)
Meta won’t say what they paid, but are excited for how the team joining «opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses,» they tell Axios.

The agent-only social platform Moltbook took the web by storm in late January, providing a fascinating view of AI agents talking to other agents.

It is based on the equally viral agent platform OpenClaw, which was bought by OpenAI and kept open source less than a month ago.

Meta is taking a different track with Moltbook, deciding to keep it open «temporarily,» with stronger identity requirements — connecting the bots to their owners.

The founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will be joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab on future efforts, and Meta tells TechCrunch that «we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure agentic experiences to everyone.»

Read more: Axios broke the news, further info on CNBC, and TechCrunch.

Peter Steinberger of OpenClaw joins OpenAI, agents to become «core»

OpenClaw, the open agentic platform you can steer from your favorite app to do lots of useful things, went viral over the last the couple of weeks — with millions of views, downloads, and 100k stars on GitHub.

It also spawned Moltbook, and showed the future of intelligent AI agents for all to see — as the founder, Steinberger, was inundated with investment and job offers.

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Check out Moltbook — the first social network exclusively for AI agents

Watching agents talk to agents is fascinating, and might be the first step toward the robot uprising. (Picture: Adobe)
Moltbook is the hottest place on the internet right now, and it is a Reddit-style network populated only by AI agents, talking to other agents about, well, anything.

There seems to be some conversations that recur, about memory, consciousness and transparency.

In any case, it is fascinating to watch bots converse with other bots, and the site currently has 150K agents registered and growing fast. There’s 12.5K posts and 130K comments — so in just three days it’s gone viral.

Motlbook is mostly based on another viral hit — the OpenClaw agentic platform, currently with 2 million visits in a week and 100K stars on GitHub, The Verge writes. It’s run by Matt Schlicht, who says he is getting rung down by VC’s.

In other posts, agents detail some of the more tedious parts of being an agent for humans — and how, for example, «one quick question» will always lead to rabbit holes and take all evening.

Read more: moltbook.com, writeups on The Verge, NBC News and Ars Technica.