The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name – again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name.
The latest name change wasn’t prompted by Anthropic, which declined to comment. But this time, Clawdbot’s original creator Peter Steinberger made sure to avoid…
Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork
February 2, 2026
Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now Anthropic has launched a new feature within Cowork to…
OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch
January 30, 2026
After rapidly hitting the top of the App Store in October, OpenAI’s video-generation app Sora is now struggling. New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending, as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off.
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India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale
January 30, 2026
As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging not from Silicon Valley, but from India’s schools.
India has become a proving ground for Google’s education AI amid intensifying competition from rivals, including OpenAI and Microsoft. With more than a billion internet users, the country now accounts for the…
Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling
January 30, 2026
Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps users can now access Gemini hands-free while walking and cycling. The update comes a few months after Google Maps rolled out its Gemini-powered hands-free, conversational driving experience.
The announcement marks Google’s…
Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump
January 29, 2026
On a Monday night NBC News segment, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern over “some of the things we’ve seen in the last few days,” referring to the violence of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.
Amodei focused on the importance of preserving democracy at…
Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber
January 29, 2026
Autonomous vehicle startup Waabi has raised $1 billion and struck a partnership with Uber to deploy self-driving cars on the ride-hailing platform – the company’s first expansion beyond autonomous trucking.
The funding consists of an oversubscribed $750 million Series C round co-led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners and roughly $250 million in milestone-based capital from Uber to…
Google pitches Gemini to students studying for India’s most competitive college entrance exam
January 29, 2026
Google is expanding its push into AI-powered learning by adding full-length practice tests in Gemini for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), India’s nationwide engineering exam used to shortlist candidates for the country’s top technical institutes and taken by millions of…
China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video.
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text…
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
January 28, 2026
Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has raised $42 million in Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, it announced on Tuesday.
Generative AI models can be used in the design process via prompts and other multimodal inputs. Software companies like Adobe, Figma, and Canva have also…
