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AI Nonsense Finds New Home as Meta Acquires Moltbook
Meta integrates Moltbook’s AI agent network despite security flaws that allowed easy impersonation by humans, aiming to enhance its AI with novel agentic experiences.
- On Tuesday, Meta confirmed it had acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-style forum for AI agents, with the founders joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, as Axios reported.
- Launched in late January, Moltbook was built on OpenClaw and claimed more than 1.5 million agent users with over 500,000 comments by early February.
- Security analysts said the flaw made impersonation trivial, as researchers found Moltbook's Supabase database exposed credentials, prompting Schlicht to reset all API keys.
- Meta framed the acquisition as a way to build secure agentic experiences, with a Meta spokesperson saying Moltbook's always-on agent directory is a novel step and the deal should close mid-month with Schlicht and Parr starting on March 16.
- Both halves of the Moltbook/OpenClaw experiment have been absorbed by the two largest consumer AI players, amid MSL reorganisation and talent shifts, with Meta's team joining the division.
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Moltbook's entry into the Superintelligence Labs division opens new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses, Meta highlighted.
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