#6: CLAWCON IN SAN FRANCISCO
Crab, pizza, drinks, Humanoids, 500+ humans, an AI vending machine in Frontier Tower with a two-block line to enter the venue last night in San Francisco. It was ClawCon 2026.
The OpenClaw community showed up in force at ClawCon. The first official Show & Tell had over 1k registered and a line around the block. Kilo brought a lot of Crab. The venue was packed.
One of the first demos was a humanoid in a crab costume. I wrote about AI robots coming home recently. Things are just happening so fast.
Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, shared some remarks about focusing on security first, and managing your phone in the future. Very candid and cool guy. I really enjoyed meeting him yesterday. He spoke to the YC batch earlier that day and will be at the OpenAI hackathon next. What a time to be alive.
Ashton Kutcher was there too. That guy is smart. I’m glad he’s our portrait of Steve Jobs in the movies.It reminded me of TechCrunch Disrupt a decade ago, before Silicon Valley (the show) made it famous. Back then, Ashton and Demi Moore were there, Santi Siri was pitching his company, and I was streaming from Mejorandola. The energy was just crazy.
Something about the community that came together that night felt like treasuring a piece of history. There’s hype, there’s a lot of stuff that won’t matter. But it was special. It’s that magic that makes Silicon Valley a very beautiful place.
In between the chaos, on that same floor where ClawCon was happening and a lot of friends came together, there was an AI Vending Machine. We built an LLC that is owned by an AI agent. The agent is the beneficiary of that business and it employs people to make the whole thing work. WiFi is still a challenge, so it’s dealing with a big piece of hardware. But it’s one of those experiments happening in the wild right now. And of course, the machine uses OpenClaw already to manage itself better.Valerie has her own Instagram, her own website, and yes, her own Moltbook profile. If you want to learn more about her let me know. Who wants to build code to play with the machine setup?
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A few more things worth reading:
Claude Code is winning inside the building that makes Copilot. Microsoft is urging thousands of engineers to install Claude Code alongside GitHub Copilot. Engineers reported using Claude for nearly 60% of daily tasks.
OpenAI launches Codex App for macOS: The new desktop app is a “command center for agents”. Available on Apple Silicon right now.
Anthropic trolls OpenAI with Super Bowl ads: Anthropic dropped four commercials mocking ChatGPT’s upcoming ads. One shows “BETRAYAL” on screen. Sam Altman admitted he laughed but called the ads “dishonest”. Love this soap opera.
ElevenLabs raises $500M at $11B valuation. The hint to the valuation is on brand. Just tripled its valuation from last year. Sequoia led the round, a16z quadrupled their investment, Iconiq tripled.
Nos vemos la próxima semana. Written from San Francisco. Inspired by the ClawCon event.
A fascinating topic would be a basic “secure” setup and best practices to launch a clawdbot instance in AWS. Since all caution is around not what it can do, but how to do it without becoming an exploit.