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Clawdbot, Moltbot, OpenClaw? The Wild Ride of This Viral AI Agent

  • Macy Meyer--CNET
  • published date: 2026-01-30 23:02:41 UTC

An AI tool that can text you and use your apps blew up online. One week and two rebrands later, the question remains: Should you actually use it?

Five days. That's really all it took for Clawdbot -- an open-source AI assistant that promises to actually do things on your computer, not just chat -- to go viral, implode, rebrand (twice!) and emer… [+10081 chars]