Rami's Readings #137 - OpenClaw & Moltbook
The latest on AI, LLMs, OpenClaw, Moltbook, Mistral's Vibe 2, MiniMax, Chatterbox, London's Startup Scene, Apple's Gross Margins, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #137 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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🤖 AI Reads
OpenClaw - Personal AI Assistant & Moltbook
Notes: OpenClaw (previously Clawdbot & Moltbot) is both exciting and terrifying. Honestly, the main innovation is how the project built-in relay between all the messaging platforms and a local LLM running 24/7. The uptake has been pretty impressive because of how easy it is to setup and have it control an entire computer, but that is terrifying for your security (prompt injection vulnerabilities, credential leaking, etc.) This comment on HackerNews nails it (Read more of HackerNews).
We are back in the glorious era of eval($user_supplied_script).
Related to OpenClaw is Moltbook. Moltbook went viral, but it opens such a giant attack vector to your data and machine that it’s already been compromised. Gary Marcus had a memorable quip:
Don’t catch a CTD — chatbot transmitted disease.
If you’re going to run OpenClaw, please please please do so in a virtual machine or a separate machine segregated from your main network without access to any of your real accounts & data.
Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0
Notes: It’s pretty good now. See the official blog post.
DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow
Notes: Also see HuggingFace and GitHub.
MiniMax M2.1: Significantly Enhanced Multi-Language Programming, Built for Real-World Complex Tasks
Notes: Released in 2025 while I was OOO.
GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
Notes: Also released in 2025 while I was OOO.
Introducing SAM Audio: Unified Multimodal Model for Audio Separation
Notes: From Meta, an impressive audio model.
resemble-ai / chatterbox: SOTA Open-Source TTS
Notes: Claims to perform better than Cartesia, ElevenLabs, VibeVoice. Unsure how it performs compared to Qwen3-TTS.
VoxCPM: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Context-Aware Speech Gen
Notes: Models speech in a continuous space.
glittercowboy / get-shit-done
Notes: Open source, lightweight, meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode.
The Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link between the Transformer and Models of the Brain
Notes: Interesting paper from Montréal-connected scientists.
💼 Business Reads
How London Became the Rest of the World’s Startup Capital
Notes: LA's ecosystem consistently surprises me. I need to explore LA more. Peter Walker from Carta put this chart together.
(Apple) Margin Call
Notes: Apple’s gross margins continue to grow despite Apple’s size.
🔀 Other Reads
UK House Price Heatmap
Notes: Neat website in you’re in the UK.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.