Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.

Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots.

Meta acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like “social network” where AI agents using OpenClaw can communicate with one another. The news was first reported by Axios and later confirmed to TechCrunch.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company's ​founders into its AI research ...

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This past week, news that AI agents were self-organizing on a social media platform called Moltbook brought forth breathless headlines about the coming robot rebellion. “A social network for AI ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Last Wednesday, ...

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