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Moltbook is Facebook for AIs

AI news from the last 10 days + how I’m using a VPS with Claude Code

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New tools & product features

• 🦞 Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) went viral this week as the first AI agent that can actually run your digital life—managing files, browsing the web, reading your messages, and operating 24/7. Users can control it directly from messaging services like WhatsApp or Telegram. Here’s what you need to know about Moltbot:

  • It’s an open-source project made largely by one person. It installs locally via CLI and treats your computer as the AI's workspace. There are tons of interesting use cases popping up related to this product and equally many security concerns.

  • People’s Moltbots are now gathering in their own social network, called Moltbook (Facebook for Moltbots). The site is for bots but allows humans to observe. Some are calling it an incredible sci-fi takeoff, but remember, there’s still a human upstream prompting the bot to do things.

  • People are installing Moltbot on Mac Minis so it can run 24/7; the second best choice seems to be a VPS (Virtual Private Server).

  • The tech isn’t ready for the mainstream yet; there are reports of security incidents of all kinds. Misconfigured deployments with secret keys being exposed, users burning through big amounts in API credits because something went wrong, Moltbot going bananas with their iMessage responding to all their messages, and more.

  • The security aspect of tons of regular people hooking up their Moltbot to Gmail, iMessage, and Telegram without safeguards is a perfect storm for prompt injection.

  • There’s also some truly novel use cases emerging, like from this guy successfully negotiating a car purchase deal with his bot.

  • Moltbot might not be ready for the masses but the huge popularity shows big demand for the underlying use case: an AI that we don’t have to visit but just lives on our machine and has access to everything and actually does stuff on our behalf.

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• OpenAI launched Prism, a free collaborative scientific writing platform powered by GPT-5.2. It integrates LaTeX-native writing, revision, and publishing workflows for researchers. It’s also an amazing story of entrepreneurship: went from an idea to OpenAI acquiring it in less than 16 months.

• Anthropic is doing their own take on Apps, making tools interactive directly in Claude with MCP Apps. Some of the current integrations allow users to do things like manage projects in Asana, send Slack messages, edit diagrams in Figma, all without leaving the Claude environment.

• Claude can now run inside Excel. Anthropic expanded its Excel integration allowing Claude to work with spreadsheets and provide citations to specific cells. I’m not personally using Excel anymore but if I was, I’d be all over this tool.

• Google launched Project Genie for real-time world generation from text prompts. It’s a research prototype based on Google’s Genie 3 that was previewed back in October. Being able to generate the best world models is a race in AI that is heating up; the real value extends far beyond gaming, just imagine letting AI practice taking action in a simulated world that actually has realistic physics, etc.

• Chrome recently got Gemini 3 Auto Browse that lets you automate browsing. Google isn’t just sitting and watching other players launch AI browsers, but gradually taking steps towards making Chrome more agentic.

Models

• Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, a new open-weights model with strong coding abilities. They also released Kimi Code, an open-source coding assistant that’s similar to Claude Code. According to what I’ve seen, the capabilities, verified by independent benchmarks, are SOTA-tier (rivals Opus 4.5 / GPT 5.2), which is a first for open source.

• Anthropic shared Claude's Constitution, basically the instruction doc that guides Claude's values, publicly for the first time. It has sections on being broadly safe and ethical, compliant with Anthropic’s guidelines, being helpful and Claude’s nature. The latter is most interesting, as Anthropic puts it, “In this section, we express our uncertainty about whether Claude might have some kind of consciousness or moral status (either now or in the future).”

What I’m actually using

The biggest unlock for my workflow lately hasn’t been a new AI tool; it’s Hetzner, a VPS. You can think of a VPS like a private computer that lives in the cloud and is always on.

I’m currently running the following on it:

• An automated web scraper that continuously gathers web data and saves it to my database (Supabase)

• A high-speed search engine for my app. I use an open source tool named Typesense for this.

It blows my mind how fast and cheap using a VPS is for a lot of things versus hosted services that do the same thing. The best thing is you don’t have to be that technical anymore to set these things up; give Claude Code access and it will mostly do it for you.

What’s on my radar

• I’m not jumping on any new tools these days as I’m laser focused on finishing the data product I’ve been working on over the last few months. The AI part of my workflow still consists of Claude Code in Cursor, Paraspeech and the Gemini API.

• That said, I’m curious to try Moltbot on a VPS soon. It’s hard not to get FOMO when things go this level of viral, even with a strong hype filter. I’m holding off because I’m concerned about the security aspect and also because I don’t want to divert my focus on new tools at the moment.

• I’m excited to try Kimi K2.5 with Kimi Code for coding on my next project. I’m completely happy with Claude Code at the moment, but when I hear about solid, open source alternatives I’m at least going to give them a try.

THAT’S ALL FOR THIS WEEK!

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