Viral AI agent molts past trademark trouble

Good morning, { AI enthusiasts }. Anthropic made Clawdbot change its name, but that didn’t stop the lobster’s momentum.

The viral AI agent is now Moltbot, and it’s been taking the web by storm from inside chat apps — providing a glimpse of an agentic future that really works, though full device access means the risks are only as real.

In today’s AI rundown:

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

The Rundown: Open-source AI assistant Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) has gone viral for its impressive agentic capabilities, operating 24/7 from inside Telegram or WhatsApp — though experts warn its full system access comes with serious risks.

The main points:

Why it matters: Moltbot looks like a serious step up within the agentic world that really delivers: running autonomously, keeping context across sessions, and taking real actions. However the utility comes with risk — full access to messages, credentials, and systems means a single exploit may compromise every little thing if not arrange appropriately.

The Rundown: Snyk’s annual Fetch the Flag CTF is back — a 24-hour virtual Capture the Flag competition hosted with NahamSec on Feb. twelfth, where security pros can sharpen their skills and compete for prizes.

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The Rundown: OpenAI just launched Prism, a free research tool that puts its most advanced reasoning model contained in the scientific writing process — aiming to do for research what AI coding assistants did for software development over the past 12 months.

The main points:

Why it matters: Since ChatGPT’s launch, journals have been drowning in sloppy papers stuffed with made-up citations and errors. OAI’s argument is that the issue was never AI in research — it was researchers using it blindly without context. An integrated tool like Prism could possibly be the difference between slop and real acceleration.

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn use Google Labs’ free AI tools to construct marketing content for your enterprise. There are dozens of ignored tools to assist tackle whatever your use case could also be, but we’ve chosen our top three here.

Step-by-step:

Pro tip: Click the dropdown beside ImageFX and choose MusicFX for generating music.

The Rundown: Agent Composer helps teams tackle expert-level engineering tasks in high-stakes environments — compressing hours of complex routine work into minutes. Trusted by high-tech leaders like Qualcomm and Advantest, it’s built for environments where accuracy and reliability are non-negotiable.

What makes it different:

See it in motion today and browse the launch blog.

The Rundown: Chinese AI startup Moonshot just open-sourced Kimi K2.5, a brand new 1T-parameter model that rivals GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 across coding, vision, and agentic benchmarks. The discharge includes Kimi Code, a terminal-based coding agent.

The main points:

Why it matters: The gap between open-source and closed frontier models keeps shrinking — and once more, it’s a Chinese lab leading the charge. With DeepSeek’s V4 also reportedly on deck, U.S. labs are facing pressure from multiple directions as China’s open wave keeps constructing at costs which might be hard for top labs to compete with.

QUICK HITS

Luma AI released Ray3.14, an upgraded video generation model that outputs native 1080p while running significantly faster and cheaper than its predecessor.

DeepSeek open-sourced OCR 2, a model for reading and extracting text from documents that tops benchmarks while being far more efficient with tokens.

AI2 introduced SERA, a brand new family of open-source coding agents capable of be cheaply trained on private codebases with native support for Claude Code.

Google premiered ‘Dear Upstairs Neighbors’ at Sundance, an animated short made with its video AI in collaboration with artists to copy hand-painted styles.

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab open-sourced Z-Image, the complete base version of its Z-Image Turbo, which ranked as the highest open-source image model in December.

COMMUNITY

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