Clawd Vs. Claude 🦞🤖

👀 TLDR

In this week’s What’s Appening, we cover the whirlwind romance and breakup between OpenClaw and Anthropic, which led the former into the gleeful arms of Sam Altman. We also cover Anthropic’s feud with the Pentagon, Apple’s Special Event, Meta’s plans to have you posting from beyond the grave, and all the latest from the team at 3Advance.

🎬 Our Top Take

🦞🤖 OpenClaw – Anthropic Drops the Ball As OpenAI Scores

Over the past few weeks, OpenClaw has been very much the talk of the town, or if not the town, the agentic web. It’s a free and open-source AI agent, which was one of the main toolkits used to create agents for Moltbook, which we reported on a few weeks back. Nonetheless, OpenClaw itself was largely powered by Anthropic’s Claude. It looked like a mutually beneficial relationship: OpenClaw gained access to Claude’s ‘brain,’ while Anthropic earned the dollars from the viral OpenClaw driving Claude's API usage. Yet, Anthropic decided to test the relationship, even suggesting brand confusion/trademark infringement (Clawd/Claude sounds a little similar, right?). This threat of legal action caused OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to blink, and he jumped right into the arms of OpenAI, bringing OpenClaw with him. Thus, in a matter of days, Anthropic lost a viral tool that was largely running on Claude, and Steinberger is now employed by OpenAI to head its drive into AI agents within the Codex team. It feels like a big miss from Anthropic. OpenClaw has proven a sensation because it allows anyone to create personal AI agents and run them locally on their own PC. But while OpenAI will benefit from OpenClaw as it is today, the real coup might be getting Steinberger into the team. Sam Altman described him as a “genius,” and many who know him seem to agree. #ClawdVClaude Read more here.

📲 App of the Week: WYZR Friends

Dating Apps are facing a reckoning, losing users as many claim burnout. It has caused some to believe a better way to find online connections is through hobby apps that allow you to meet people through shared passions. We’d put the Shift app in that bracket as it allows people to connect based on a love of Irish culture, but this week we wanted to highlight WYZR, which is a free app designed to connect the over-40s through activities based on shared interests – from hiking to book clubs. WYZR has been around for a couple of years now, but it's growing into an all-in-one app for friendship/dating, even adding carpooling features. You can check it out here for iOS and here for Android.

🧐 Stat of the Week: 80B Searches

📈📉 Pinterest – CEO Comes Out Swinging Despite Poor Financial Results

Pinterest has more monthly searches (80B) than ChatGPT (75B). That salient point was made by CEO Bill Ready when explaining away particularly poor quarterly results, but do those numbers matter? Pinterest is an intriguing case of a company that has difficulty turning a vast user base – MAUs: 619 million – into profit. Why? Because people use it as a planning tool rather than an endpoint for sales. Experts have warned that things might become tougher as AI shopping tools continue to roll out. #Disinterest Read more here.

🗞️ Other Stories

📍 Meanwhile at 3Advance

We’ve been evolving how we build. There’s a big difference between a developer prompting in their IDE and designing an entire delivery system around AI. We’re focused on the latter. That means structured product context, specs that actually drive implementation, architectural guardrails, and AI operating inside a disciplined framework – not freehand code generation.

The goal isn’t just faster output, though that’s a nice side effect. It’s building software that improves over time instead of becoming a maintenance burden. Another core tenet is widening participation. With the right structure, PMs, Designers, CEOs, and founders can contribute meaningfully – without creating AI slop.

If you’re interested in how we’re thinking about AI-native delivery, follow Paul and Darren on LinkedIn – we’ll be sharing more as this continues to take shape.