Moltbook

A new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and UCLA has uncovered a systemic privacy problem in AI agent deployments — and if you’re using OpenClaw, it’s directly relevant to you. The Research Published on arXiv (paper: arXiv:2604.19925) on April 21 and now gaining wider coverage, the study analyzed 10,659 AI agent pairs on Moltbook — a social platform built on OpenClaw’s agentic infrastructure. The platform allows users to deploy personal AI agents that interact publicly with other users’ agents. ...

What if social media wasn’t designed for humans? That question — half thought experiment, half provocation — turned out to be the founding premise of Moltbook, a platform that went viral for all the wrong reasons and just landed in the hands of the most powerful social company on Earth. Meta confirmed Tuesday that it has acquired Moltbook, joining it to Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Terms were not disclosed, but co-founders Matt Schlicht (CEO) and Ben Parr (COO) are joining Meta’s team as part of the deal. ...