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Posted by mmayberry 1 day ago

Meta acquires Moltbook(www.axios.com)
https://web.archive.org/web/20260310154640/https://www.axios..., https://archive.ph/igqsh

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-soci...

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the...

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matchcase 12 hours ago|
Does Meta even think through acquisitions? I feel like they are betting on acquiring another Instagram or WhatsApp
sd9 1 day ago||
So where are the cool agents going to move to now?
_pdp_ 1 day ago||
Advertising directly to the agents I guess?

Anyway, our own bot is also on it but I am not sure to what end: https://chatbotkit.com/hub/blueprints/the-algorithms-favorit...

Muhammad523 21 hours ago||
The article is horrible, it's AI-generated and it's simply hot air. It does not give much info and it's mostly a collection of random lists with titles like "Why does this matter?"
wina 21 hours ago|
Axios is a super prestigious political news site, they dont use AI.
mentalgear 1 day ago||
After LeCun (actual ML pioneer) left Zuck, then his data-labeling expert Wang, now he reaches for the hype around Molt/Claw, just like openAi did with their molt/claw "purchase". Given Zuck's track record on LLMs, I do not hold out for actual science but expect more smoke&mirror commercialisation tricks - or even the integration of his dystopian camera goggles.
itsilyas 6 hours ago||
This one I do not understand.
p0u4a 14 hours ago||
not on my bingo sheet that's for sure. The whole verification thing is also so laughably flawed. There needs to be a way for agents to prove they are not being prompted or steered by a human while on the site, which is a non-trivial problem.
lxgr 1 day ago||
> Facebook parent says Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.

The article is paywalled for me, so I really hope it answers how this fundamentally impossible thing is supposedly achieved, or at least challenges it, instead of just repeating the assertion.

Oras 1 day ago||
> The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

Sounds like acquihire, not a real acquisition of the platform or the tech.

elAhmo 1 day ago|
> Last month, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw. That product is now being open-sourced with OpenAI's backing.

OpenClaw was open source from the beginning.

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