Meta Plumps For Bot Social Networks

Welcome to the Tech Brew ride home for Tuesday, 03/10/2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, meta moves for the social network for AI bots. Code review for Claude Coats seems to be like another revolution for the software development industry. Jan Lacun raises the biggest European seed round of all time. And the MacBook Neo, worth investing in or not? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Meta has acquired AI agent social network, Multbook, for an undisclosed sum. Its creators, Matt Schlitt and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, quoting Axios. Multbook's social network was designed to run-in conjunction with a separate project, OpenClaw. OpenClaw was previously called Claudebot and briefly, Molbot. Last month, OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw. That product is now being open sourced with OpenAI's backing. Schlitt has been working on autonomous AI agents since 2023 and launched Multbook in late January as an experimental third space for AI agents. Multbook was built largely with the help of Schlitz's personal AI assistant, Claude Cloderberg. Parr is a former editor and columnist at Mashable and CNET, end quote, end quoting TechCrunch. OpenClaw is a wrapper for AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok, but it allows people to communicate with AI agents in natural language via the most popular chat apps like iMessage, Discord, Slack, or WhatsApp. Open Claw blew up among the tech community, but Multbook broke containment reaching people who had no idea what Open Claw was but who reacted viscerally to the idea that there was a social network where AI agents were talking about them. In one instance, a post went viral in which an AI agent appeared to be encouraging its fellow agents to develop their own secret end to end encrypted language where they could organize amongst themselves without humans knowing. But researchers soon revealed that the vibe coded mold book was not secure, meaning that it was very easy for human users to pose as AIs to make posts that would freak people out. Every credential that was in MoltBook's Supabase was unsecured for some time. Ian Auel, CTO at Permiso Security explained to TechCrunch, for a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there because it was all public and available. It is not immediately clear how Meta will incorporate Multbook into its AI efforts, but some Meta leaders had commented on the project during its viral moment, end quote. Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean and more than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google have filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its legal fight with the US Department of Defense. Quoting TechCrunch, the government's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was an improper and arbitrary use of power that has serious ramifications for our industry, reads the brief, whose signatories include Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean. The amicus brief in support of Anthropic showed up on …