The Clawdbot → Moltbot saga reveals deeper tensions in the AI ecosystem—and exposes a security nightmare we're not ready for.
On January 27, 2026, Peter Steinberger—founder of PSPDFKit and creator of the wildly popular Clawdbot project—announced he was forced to rename his project. Anthropic's legal team had sent a cease and desist letter. The reason? "Clawd" was too close to "Claude."