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Clawdbot’s bad day.

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.

Steinberger also recounted how crypto scammers took advantage of the name change to push a phony crypto coin. “Everything that could have gone wrong today went wrong,” he said.

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