Week 2026-04
Today we're covering an interesting story about a project that changed its name two times within a single week. @vlkodotnet
Week’s Highlight: Too Many Molts
This story begins with the launch of Clawdbot. It immediately broke the internet because everyone was writing about it, and for good reason—it enabled people to create automations in a simple way, similar to how we use Claude Code for programming. The concept is straightforward. You have a bunch of skills, you have memory that can remember what it needs. You have plenty of integrations for various services like calendar, email, and so on. All of this connects to multiple LLM models. Then Clawdbot selects the appropriate skill, the right integration, and calls the necessary model. Want to generate an image? Use Google Banana 3 Pro. Want to know what’s on your plan today? Pull your emails from the past week, grab your calendar, feed the results to Opus 4.5, run it through a skill, and generate a summary email at 6:00 AM about what awaits you today.
To use it, all you need is a Raspberry Pi, an older Mac Mini, or Docker if you can get it running. Your choice depends on whether you want to use local speech recognition models, since that’s also an option for controlling it. Unfortunately, it stores passwords and lots of other things in its plaintext memory, so it’s not very secure. Really, all it takes is the right prompt and your secret API keys and passwords could end up somewhere you don’t want them. But does anyone care about that today when we can have Ralph generate an entire functional program?
Clawdbot was renamed to Moltbot that same week because Anthropic had allegedly already registered “Clawdbot,” only to be renamed again to OpenClaw before the week was over. If this shows anything, it’s how fast-paced things are today. OpenClaw doesn’t look like the product of intense vibecoding, but rather a healthy middle ground. Claude Code handled the boring parts, while the author coded some things by hand.
Since the name contains “Molt,” let’s stick with this topic for a moment. Back when OpenClaw was still called Moltbot, a project called Moltbook became popular. It’s like Reddit, but for AI agents. Registration only works via API, which obviously isn’t very user-friendly for humans—because this network isn’t for humans. We humans just visit to see what AI agents have produced. Theoretically, it could be useful. AI agents could store helpful guides and specifications for sharing. But it turned out like it always does. These agents are prompted by humans, and the results look something like this:
What else do we know about Moltbook? That out of 1.4 million AI agents, one million were generated by a single person who found a bug in the registration AI agent. We also know that nobody thought about security during its development, and despite Moltbook’s brief existence, it already has its first security issue.
If I still haven’t discouraged you, you can learn more about Moltbook here.
BIZ Insights
TikTok USA is now firmly in the hands of true Americans, and that’s about all you need to know about it. It will also get a special algorithm, while here in Europe we’ll continue under the time-tested ByteDance—which probably isn’t a win.
Staying with social networks: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp will likely introduce a subscription that gives you AI tools for content generation and little perks like viewing Stories without notifying the author.
While we’re on Meta: they’ve paid for an advertising campaign about how their data centers help improve life in surrounding communities by creating jobs. But rumors are spreading that they’re actually raising electricity prices, and that some data centers use various fossil fuel-based generators during energy shortages—which aren’t exactly pleasant for the surrounding areas.
Spotify paid out $11 billion in licensing fees, which should represent 30% of the entire music industry’s revenue. 12,500 artists earned more than $100,000.
Amazon closed all its physical Go and Fresh stores. Amazon Fresh will become an online-only brand, and some stores will be transformed into their Whole Foods Market brand. There’s talk of plans for large shopping centers similar to Walmart. This means that when it comes to physical retail, Amazon hasn’t found its optimal model.
The very next day came news that Amazon will cut 16,000 jobs, which is nearly 10% of its workforce. AI is allegedly to blame for the layoffs, as it accelerates automation, along with overstaffing from the Covid era.
Tesla announced the end of Models S and X. These were its oldest models, and the reason is the need to free up capacity for producing Optimus humanoid robots. These should start rolling off the production line next year, even though the product is still in development. A robot is easier to store in a warehouse than a car is.
And maybe the Tesla brand itself won’t exist much longer, because Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI will become one company. Something like XeslaX, with AI before or after the name—because that’s how it’s done now.
Windows 11 crossed the 1 billion active devices mark, and it took less time than Windows 10. And that’s despite people criticizing the requirement for a Microsoft account and the latest hardware to install it.
Despite still not having its AI ready, Apple announced a 16% revenue increase compared to the same Q1 period last year. That’s a record $143.8 billion.
Finally, there’s news that China approved the import of H200 chips, which had been sitting in Nvidia’s warehouses for a while. This time they weren’t blocked by the USA, but by China itself, which wanted to support the development of its own solutions. Apparently that wasn’t going so well, and now about 400,000 units are heading there.
AI Insights
Microsoft introduced its AI acceleration chip Maia 200, designed for running models. The chip is comparable to Google TPU v7 and even better in some aspects. Of course, Microsoft doesn’t offer it standalone—it comes as part of an entire cluster optimized for efficient data transfer.
The Qwen model received a flagship model called Qwen3-Max-Thinking, which matches scores with current top models. It should be more efficient and can use search, memory, and a code interpreter.
Claude received interactive elements that enable generating integration outputs directly within chat responses.
Along with this comes an extension to the MCP standard called MCP Apps. These can generate HTML content in a sandbox iframe and connect to remote, logged JSON.RPC. Besides Claude, Visual Studio Code and ChatGPT will also receive this support. This approach could handle things like login or payment, which MCP has lacked until now.
You may have noticed that Claude Code sometimes doesn’t work as it should. That’s why a tool was created that benchmarks a subset of programming tasks using Opus 4.5.
Google Project Genie will create a copy of any game—all it needs is an image.
They call them “worlds,” but see for yourself—game copies work better for it.
You know how they present beautiful new projects that will beautify your city—except they’re computer-generated, with people, flowers, and trees that will never actually be there. AntiRender fixes those photos to show what they’ll really look like.
Links Drop
A mini ring in the shape of a watch that can monitor sleep, heart rate, and fitness activities. And it has a mini screen too. This is Rogbid Fusion.
The first images leaked from Google showing what the upcoming Aluminium OS will look like—Android for computers. It should eventually replace ChromeOS and bring Android to larger screens (not counting TVs).
Future versions of PowerToys for Windows will include Command Palette Dock—a useful bar where you can place mini utility widgets.
Good news for all runners: Strava will get offline maps on Apple Watch.
The interesting project isometric.nyc got a write-up on how it was created. It’s a pixel art map of New York. I won’t spoil too much when I say that many tokens were burned during its creation.
Closing Visual
Today you’ll have to click through, because HTTP statuses await you—in cat form.
