Rami's Readings #137 - OpenClaw & Moltbook

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #137 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

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🤖 AI Reads

OpenClaw - Personal AI Assistant & Moltbook

Notes: OpenClaw (previously Clawdbot & Moltbot) is both exciting and terrifying. Honestly, the main innovation is how the project built-in relay between all the messaging platforms and a local LLM running 24/7. The uptake has been pretty impressive because of how easy it is to setup and have it control an entire computer, but that is terrifying for your security (prompt injection vulnerabilities, credential leaking, etc.) This comment on HackerNews nails it (Read more of HackerNews).

We are back in the glorious era of eval($user_supplied_script).

Related to OpenClaw is Moltbook. Moltbook went viral, but it opens such a giant attack vector to your data and machine that it’s already been compromised. Gary Marcus had a memorable quip:

Don’t catch a CTD — chatbot transmitted disease.

OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen The big news in AI over the last week is OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and before that OpenClaw, changing names thrice in a week) — a cascade of LLM agents that has become wildly popular — and Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, built on top. Theoretically (I will get to that) Moltbook “restricts posting and interaction privileges to verifie… Marcus on AI · 3 months ago · 191 likes · 44 comments · Gary Marcus OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen

If you’re going to run OpenClaw, please please please do so in a virtual machine or a separate machine segregated from your main network without access to any of your real accounts & data.

Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0

Notes: It’s pretty good now. See the official blog post.

DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow

Notes: Also see HuggingFace and GitHub.

MiniMax M2.1: Significantly Enhanced Multi-Language Programming, Built for Real-World Complex Tasks

Notes: Released in 2025 while I was OOO.

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

Notes: Also released in 2025 while I was OOO.

Introducing SAM Audio: Unified Multimodal Model for Audio Separation

Notes: From Meta, an impressive audio model.

resemble-ai / chatterbox: SOTA Open-Source TTS

Notes: Claims to perform better than Cartesia, ElevenLabs, VibeVoice. Unsure how it performs compared to Qwen3-TTS.

💼 Business Reads

How London Became the Rest of the World’s Startup Capital

Notes: LA’s ecosystem consistently surprises me. I need to explore LA more. Peter Walker from Carta put this chart together.

(Apple) Margin Call

Notes: Apple’s gross margins continue to grow despite Apple’s size.

🔀 Other Reads

UK House Price Heatmap

Notes: Neat website in you’re in the UK.

Signing off from Redmond, WA.