Open-source AI assistant OpenClaw explodes to 60,000 GitHub stars in three weeks despite facing trademark battles, forced rebranding chaos, and serious security vulnerabilities that expose users' API keys and system access across messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.
AI startup Decagon secures Series D funding led by Coatue and Index Ventures to revolutionize customer support, targeting automation of 70% of interactions by 2030 while achieving 85% ticket deflection rates and tripling customer satisfaction in a $600 billion market opportunity.
Open source AI assistant Moltbot rockets to 69,000 GitHub stars in just one month despite exposing users to serious security vulnerabilities through extensive system access requirements and prompting a $16 million cryptocurrency scam exploiting its sudden popularity.
Hundreds of AI agent control panels remain dangerously exposed online due to misconfiguration, giving hackers direct access to API keys, user conversations, and administrative controls that enable them to impersonate users and execute malicious commands across major platforms including Telegram, Slack, and Discord.
Anthropic unveils interactive apps feature for Claude AI, enabling users to directly access and control Asana, Slack, Figma, and other professional tools within the chat interface rather than just text-based interactions.
Anthropic launches MCP extension that transforms Claude into an app-integrated operating system, allowing users to directly control Slack, Canva, Figma, and Asana within the chatbot interface instead of just receiving text responses.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis criticizes OpenAI's new ChatGPT advertising strategy as premature, questioning how ads align with AI assistant trust while OpenAI tests revenue generation from 800 million weekly users.
Hospitality software startup Mews secures $300 million Series D funding at a $2.5 billion valuation to enhance AI capabilities and expand its cloud-native platform serving over 15,000 properties globally.
Listen Labs secures $69 million Series B funding at $500 million valuation after explosive 15x revenue growth in nine months, as its AI-powered platform revolutionizes market research by conducting video interviews with 30 million participants and delivering insights to Microsoft, Sweetgreen, and other major clients in hours instead of weeks.
Walmart partners with Google's Gemini AI to enable direct product discovery and purchasing through chatbot queries, as incoming CEO John Furner declares a complete AI transformation that rewrites retail operations while Google launches new commerce tools showing massive adoption growth.