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January 28, 2026
Clawdbot’s bad day.
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.
TL;DR
- Peter Steinberger created the AI agent Moltbot, formerly known as Clawdbot.
- Anthropic contacted Steinberger to rebrand the project.
- The original name, Clawdbot, was inspired by the Claude Code mascot, Claw'd.
- Crypto scammers exploited the name change to push a fake crypto coin.
- Steinberger described the day's events as everything going wrong.
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