The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed.
The big picture: Tens of thousands of AI agents are already using the site, chatting about the work they're doing for their people and the problems they've solved, per The Verge.
Anthropic is launching plugins for Cowork, its enterprise product built around Claude, according to materials shared with Axios.
Why it matters: Tools like these —which let companies customize AI agents for specific roles and workflows — will enable AI to be treated more like a full-time coworker, rather than a one-off tech fix.
Why it matters: The circular AI economy has nothing on the circular Elon economy, where trillion dollar companies are rumored to be mixed and matched like IKEA furniture.
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised more than $125 million to try to shape the 2026 midterms and the future of federal AI regulation.
Why it matters: States are racing ahead with regulating AI, while companies are looking to Washington to set a single, industry-friendly federal standard.
A new organization is launching to improve federal support for commercial deployment of a range of energy tech, with initial focus on the Energy Department's loan office.
Why it matters: The Energy Infrastructure Alliance Forum (EIAF) aims to fill what organizers call a need for a broad-based push that complements others' ongoing work on specific tech and finance streams.
Microsoft had one of its worst selloffs in history after it increased its AI spending plans. Meta did the same, but it was rewarded by investors.
Why it matters: The wildly different market reactions to Meta and Microsoft earnings reveal the new calculus investors are using to evaluate AI winners and losers.
Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has become one of the most vocal Republican skeptics of AI, betting that kids' safety, job fears and rising costs can turn his party against Big Tech.
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and Axios chief technology officer Dan Cox were chatting about how to share the basics of AI, and this prompting primer was born:
The No. 1 pushback we get from AI skeptics or newbies is: "It's overhyped. I asked it something and it spit out an unimpressive answer!"
