A few days ago, Clawdbot was one of GitHub’s hottest open-source projects, boasting more than 80,000 stars. It's an impressive piece of engineering that lets you run an AI assistant locally with full system access through messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord. Today, it’s been forced into a legal rebrand, overrun by crypto scammers, linked to a fake token that briefly hit a $16 million market cap before collapsing, and criticized by researchers who found exposed gateways and accessible credentials. The reckoning started after Anthropic sent founder Peter Steinberger a trademark claim. The AI ... (full story)