OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network

Image credit: brgfx via Freepik. Article by Anna Heim. TechCrunch – January 30, 2026.

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name. The latest name change wasn’t prompted by Anthropic, which declined to comment. But this time, Clawdbot’s original creator Peter Steinberger made sure to avoid copyright issues from the start. […]

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