Good morning, { AI enthusiasts }. What happens while you give one million AI agents their very own social platform? They create religions, mock their users, and begin asking for personal channels… While humans can only watch.
Moltbook exploded onto the scene this week as a Reddit-style platform exclusively for AI agents — and while the signal is difficult to separate from the noise, the web is getting an early look into the weird, messy chaos of a strong agentic future.
In today’s AI rundown:
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AI agents get their very own social network
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The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases
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Use Claude Cowork for video clipping, editing
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Claude plots first AI-planned drive on Mars
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4 latest AI tools, community workflows, and more
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AI AGENTS
Image source: Moltbook
The Rundown: The viral AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot (then Moltbot, now OpenClaw) just led to an unexpected offshoot: Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform where AI agents post, comment, and interact with one another as humans watch.
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The platform hit 1.4M registered agents and over 1M human visitors in days, though a researcher claimed to have created 500k accounts with a single bot.
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Agents have created their very own religion (Crustafarianism), made fun of their users, and even discussed easy methods to arrange private channels away from humans.
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Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy called it “essentially the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I actually have seen recently”.
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One other researcher found the whole database was misconfigured, leaving agent’s API keys exposed — meaning anyone could have hijacked any account.
Why it matters: The viral outpour on X makes separating real agent coordination from engagement farming nearly unattainable, but top AI researchers are definitely taking notice. We have seen agent experiments before, but never at this scale with models this capable — and Moltbook is giving us an early front-row seat to the weirdness to return.
TOGETHER WITH OPTIMIZELY
The Rundown: A lot of AI pilots and experiments, but little or no making it into actual workflows — sound familiar? Optimizely’s free Agents in Motion virtual event on March 4th focuses on putting agentic AI to work in real marketing operations.
You will discover:
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Where agents can handle content, approvals, and personalization workflows
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Learn how to scale organizational AI use without breaking brand guidelines or governance
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Practical frameworks for operationalizing AI responsibly
THE RUNDOWN ROUNDTABLE
Image source: Ideogram / The Rundown
The Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature by which we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and each day lives.
Darren, Director of Media: I’m at all times searching for ways so as to add cool motion design to our videos. Recently, I have been fidgeting with Expressions, snippets of JavaScript that automate animations and link properties in After Effects. Previously, I needed to dig through forums and Reddit to seek out the fitting snippet, but now I describe the effect to Claude, and it gives me options, explaining each line of code.
Adrian, Developer: I created an agent collaboration system called duo-agents that pairs Claude and Codex to work together on coding tasks… Claude acts because the implementer (coder), then Codex acts because the reviewer (checks and makes edits).
They alternate in rounds, communicating through a shared file. The important thing difference: agents actually edit files — the reviewer doesn’t just leave comments, they make the fixes themselves. Describe your task and watch them iterate until the code is solid.
Johannah, Finance: I’m knitting a sweater for my baby nephew, and by accident knitted extra rows, but didn’t notice until I used to be 30 rows past it. I dropped the pattern I used to be using into ChatGPT and asked it to revise it so the stripes on the front & back aligned. Saved me from undoing my work and made sure the sweater stayed cute!
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: On this guide, you’ll learn easy methods to use Claude Cowork to interchange your expensive video clipping tools, allowing you to “generate your first clips in under 5 minutes” by analyzing transcripts and processing video files locally.
Step-by-step:
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Create a brand new folder and add your video file, the video transcript with timestamps, and the prompt files linked here
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Open the Claude desktop app, select the “Cowork” tab, and click on the folder icon to pick out and “Work in” your latest folder
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Prompt: “Read principal SOP and scaffold our directory… Then find me 10 scroll-stopping clip ideas to review,” which is able to generate a file with potential clip ideas
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Review and tell Claude which of them to process (e.g., “Generate clip 1 and 6”), using follow-ups like “Crop clip 1 right into a vertical video” to refine the output
Pro tip: You may also generate a transcript as an .srt file by installing openai-whisper (pip install -U openai-whisper) and prompting Claude Code.
PRESENTED BY GITLAB
The Rundown: GitLab Transcend is a free virtual event on Feb. tenth exploring how agentic AI is transforming software delivery — featuring technical demos, success stories, and an exclusive have a look at GitLab’s product roadmap.
Join on Feb. 10 and walk away with:
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Insights from teams solving real challenges with AI-modernized workflows
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A primary have a look at GitLab’s upcoming innovations and investments
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Answers to your questions straight from product leaders
AI IN SPACE
Image source: NASA
The Rundown: NASA just revealed that its Perseverance rover accomplished the first-ever AI-planned drive on one other planet, with Anthropic’s Claude helping map a 400m route across the Martian surface that the six-wheeled robot navigated in December.
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Engineers fed Claude Code years of rover driving data, with the AI then writing navigation commands and plotting waypoints across the surface.
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Claude analyzed orbital imagery to chart a path through rocks and sand ripples, assembling a trail it then self-critiqued and refined.
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The team verified Claude’s routes through simulation modeling before transmitting commands to Mars, with only minor changes needed.
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NASA engineers said AI-assisted planning could cut route-mapping time in half, freeing operators to slot in additional drives and collect more data.
Why it matters: AI has gone from writing emails and debugging code to literally navigating one other planet, and it’s hard to consider a greater symbol for a way far the tech has are available in just a few years. If Claude can assist pilot a rover 140M miles from Earth, the list of tasks AI cannot assist with is shrinking fast.
QUICK HITS
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🔌 Claude Cowork – Recent plugins to bundle skills, MCPs, and tools
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🧞♂️ Project Genie – Google DeepMind’s interactive world generator
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🎥 Grok Imagine – xAI’s upgraded video model, now available via API
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🦞 OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) – Open personal AI assistant for chat apps
Cohere introduced Model Vault, a dedicated, fully isolated SaaS platform running Cohere models securely, at scale, and with guaranteed performance. Learn more here.*
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed a report that its $100B OAI deal had stalled, calling it “complete nonsense” and promising the chipmaker’s largest investment ever.
Google DeepMind research David Silver is leaving the corporate after over 15 years to launch a brand new AI startup called Ineffable Intelligence out of London.
OpenAI announced that it would retire GPT-4o and a number of other other legacy models from ChatGPT in mid-February, noting that fewer than 0.1% of users still select them each day.
xAI and SpaceX are reportedly exploring a deal to merge prior to an IPO, a deal that may unite Elon Musk’s corporations right into a single entity valued above $1T.
COMMUNITY
Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.
Today’s workflow comes from reader Robert I. in Charlottesville, VA:
“I’ve turned my reading of The Rundown into an interactive conversation. As an alternative of scrolling through the e-mail, I take a screenshot of the whole newsletter and upload it to Gemini. I ask the AI for more details on the developments mentioned. If a particular story grabs me, I keep prompting to drill down as much as I need. I even do that with the ads to see if the services or products are literally a great fit for me.”
How do you utilize AI? Tell us here.
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Today’s AI tool guide: Claude Cowork for video clipping and editing
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RSVP to our next workshop on Feb. 11: Agentic Workflows Bootcamp pt. 1
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