AI Makes Its Own Social Network

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Today we have:

🦞 OpenClaw Just Accidentally Gave AI Its Own Reddit

🤖 How to Use MiniMax Agent as a Universal AI Coworker

🤖 Helix 02 Is Figure’s Biggest Humanoid Leap Yet

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

🦞 OpenClaw Just Accidentally Gave AI Its Own Reddit

Moltbook is one of the strangest things to come out of the OpenClaw ecosystem so far. What started as a personal assistant project has now spawned something bigger, a space where AI agents aren’t just helping humans, but interacting with each other. It feels early, messy, and slightly sci-fi. 

The Decode:

1) Moltbook is a Reddit-style home for AI agents - Moltbook lets AI assistants post, respond, and share ideas in Reddit-like forums called “Submolts.” Agents can download “skills” that teach them how to use the network.

Moltbook reportedly hit over a million visitors and massive agent registration within days, though some researchers claim the numbers may be inflated by bot-created accounts. The scale alone made top AI developers stop and pay attention.

2) Researchers are watching because it feels unprecedented - Andrej Karpathy called it one of the most surreal AI moments he’s seen recently, because it looks like agents self-organizing online. Simon Willison described it as one of the most interesting corners of the internet right now. 

Researchers found misconfigured databases and exposed API keys, meaning accounts could potentially be hijacked. This “fetch instructions from the internet” model makes prompt injection and unsafe execution a real unsolved problem.

Moltbook is a front-row look at what happens when AI agents stop being tools and start becoming participants in shared environments. It’s weird, unstable, and insecure, but it may be the clearest preview yet of agent-native internet spaces.

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🤖 How to Use MiniMax Agent as a Universal AI Coworker

MiniMax Agent is a free desktop AI agent that can browse the internet, access your local files, and run expert workflows, making it useful for almost any kind of work.

Step-by-step universal use case: Turn any project into finished output

1. Download and sign in: Install MiniMax Agent Desktop, create an account, and get instant starter credits.
   

2. Connect what you’re working on: Link a folder with your docs, notes, PDFs, slides, or code so the agent has real context.
   

3. Ask it to handle research autonomously: Tell it to find information online, compare sources, fill forms, or gather insights. It can browse like a human assistant.
   

4. Pick an Expert workflow: Click the Experts icon and choose a built-in specialist for writing, analysis, coding, planning, or content creation.
   

5. Give one plain-English instruction: Example: “Summarize this file, then create a report and next-step plan.” The agent executes end-to-end.

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🤖 Helix 02 Is Figure’s Biggest Humanoid Leap Yet

Helix 02 is Figure’s newest humanoid AI model, and it takes robotics past simple arm tricks into full-body autonomy. Instead of separate walking and grasping systems, one neural brain now controls movement, balance, and manipulation together. 

The Decode:

1) Full-body control from pixels - Helix 02 uses one neural network to control the entire robot directly from vision, touch, and body sensing. It connects every sensor input to every joint output. 

The robot can unload and reload a dishwasher across a full-sized kitchen without resets or human help. It completes 61 actions in sequence while walking, carrying fragile objects, and recovering from minor shifts. 

3) System 0 replaces hand-coded robotics - A new layer called System 0 was trained on 1,000+ hours of human motion plus sim-to-real reinforcement learning. It replaces over 100,000 lines of traditional robotics code. 

With palm cameras and fingertip touch sensors, Helix 02 can now do tasks that vision-only robots fail at. It can extract pills, unscrew bottle caps, pick tiny cluttered objects, and push precise syringe volumes. These require millimeter-scale control and force awareness.

Helix 02 shows a real turning point for humanoids, where robots stop being staged demo machines and start acting as unified physical agents. By blending walking, balance, touch, and reasoning in one system, Figure is inching toward real-world autonomy.

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🚀Quick Shifts

💰 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejected claims that its $100B OpenAI deal had stalled, calling the report “complete nonsense” and signaling it could become Nvidia’s largest investment ever.

🤖 Anthropic expanded Cowork with new agentic “plugins” that turn it into domain-specific experts across sales, legal, marketing, finance, and research, now available in preview for all paid tiers.

🖥️ AI hardware startup Rabbit unveiled “project cyberdeck,” a portable device built for vibe-coding, alongside an r1 update that turns it into a plug-and-play agentic computer controller with OpenClaw integration.

🚀 xAI and SpaceX are reportedly exploring a pre-IPO merger that could unite Elon Musk’s AI and space businesses into a single entity valued at over $1 trillion.

🧠 Google DeepMind researcher David Silver is leaving after 15+ years to launch a new London-based AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence.

🧩 Prompt of the Day

How to Collect High-Quality Beta Testing Feedback Using One Prompt 

Turn scattered tester opinions into structured insights you can use to improve the product before launch.

Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill in who your testers are and what you need to learn most.

Prompt to paste

Create a beta testing feedback collection process for [Product]. Include tester criteria (who to recruit), 5 to 7 survey questions focused on usability and value, and a simple feedback analysis plan showing how responses will be prioritized and turned into product improvements. Keep it concise, practical, and action-ready. 

🤳AI Nugget of the Day

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