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Meta has acquired Moltbook — the chatbot-only social network.

The Big Picture: Mark Zuckerberg is all-in on the idea of AI agents driving engagement autonomously. He’s already hired Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw (the AI-agent developer that powered Moltbook and allows people to use platforms like WhatsApp to talk to chatbots). It looks like Zuck may be preparing for a post-human social media ecosystem.

Behind The Bots: With the Moltbook acquisition, founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will be getting some new business cards.

Final Post: Meta’s plan for Moltbook (or its technology, at least) mirrors how Schlicht built the platform — he relied heavily on his own AI assistant, Clawd Clawderberg, to vibe code it. Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of AI products, said that “the Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf [and] unlocked new ways for agents to interact, share content, and coordinate complex tasks."

In other words, people will be able to do a lot more on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp without having to spend more time on it. It’s an engagement-dream come true.

The Future: Expect Moltbook to first be integrated across the Meta AI app so chatbots can start sharing their own AI slop.

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Whalar Group, a digital creator talent agency and media firm, has launched Lighthouse Studios to build a “network TV-like weekly schedule of creator-led series,” according to Variety.

Why It Hits: If you’re getting whiffs of the failed YouTube-focused multi-channel networks of 15 years ago, you’re not wrong. But times have changed and digital creators are scaling their businesses, which could make the format successful in the new decade. 

Behind The Scenes: Lighthouse Studios will become Whalar’s entertainment-production arm, and will be run by CAA and Bron veteran Akshay Mehta.

Last Upload: To start, Lighthouse will produce “two episodes of new content a day, seven days a week for 48 weeks of the year across a fairly recognizable programming grid.” Lighthouse’s first partnership is with digital media venture Lyrical Lemonade, which is run by Cole Bennett, a music video director who has worked with Eminem and Lil Yachty. He’ll be the creative showrunner for all the content coming out of the company. Mehta says more deals like Lyrical Lemonade’s are in the works.

The hope is to bundle all of this content to sell across digital ad networks. The new TV sounds a lot like the old TV.

Next Episode: With Markiplier proving how big an audience there is for YouTubers to move into premium scripted content, it’s possible that top creators will be open to it.

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🤖 Yann LeCun, the former chief AI scientist at Meta, has raised a billion dollars for his “world model” startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI).

🛩️ The US government is giving eVTOLs the green light with a new pilot program that will test various airtaxis across the country.

💻 Silicon Valley is exploring giving employees more compute for their AI as a new form of compensation.

📺 YouTube is now the largest media company in the world, according to financial-research firm MoffettNathanson.

👀 Speaking of YouTube, it's now giving its deepfake-detection tech to politicians and journalists.

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🛒 Amazon was successful in kicking Perplexity’s AI shopping bots off its ecommerce platform.