Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. It also launched MoltBook, a social network where AI agents went to complain about their humans, debate the provability of consciousness, and discuss the need for a private place to exchange ideas. In a post on his personal site, Steinberger said that joining OpenAI would allow him to achieve his goal of bringing AI agents to the masses, without the headaches of running a company. For OpenAI, this is a high-profile hire after several big names were poached by Meta or left to form a rival. But Altman said that OpenClaw will continue as an open-source project in a foundation supported by OpenAI.