Good morning. It’s Monday, January 26th.

On this day in tech history: InIn 1972, Alain Colmerauer’s team created Prolog, a logic programming language that turned “programming” into constraint solving and unification. It later became a backbone of symbolic AI, expert systems, and the dream of declarative reasoning machines. If you’ve ever built a solver, wrote a type inference engine, or obsessed over Horn clauses—this is your lineage

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Peter Steinberger, the Austrian-born engineer who built and sold PSPDFKit (now Nutrient) for hundreds of millions, wasn’t done. After cashing out, he felt the void—and built Clawdbot. The open-source AI assistant exploded this past weekend, rocketing past 15–20k GitHub stars in days.

Clawdbot is an AI that runs locally, equips models like Claude with browser control, file ops, and shell commands, and proactively acts as your privacy-first digital employee across WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack.

You install it locally (Mac, Windows, Linux, even Raspberry Pi). One curl line, a quick onboarding, and it owns your WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, Slack, iMessage, Teams (pick your poison.) Behind the scenes: a single Gateway process handling channels via WebSocket, plus lightweight nodes for heavy lifting.

The magic is agency: Clawdbot controls Chrome to book flights, check you in, scrape sites, fill forms. It reads/writes files, runs shell commands, drafts and publishes blog posts unprompted. Persistent memory keeps context alive across days. Swap Claude, OpenAI, or local models at will. Add 50+ integrations (Gmail, GitHub, Spotify, Home Assistant) or teach it new skills—sometimes by asking it to write them.Real stories from the past week:

Critics shrug: “Just a wrapper with browser control.” True, but no one else shipped this level of proactive, cross-channel execution self-hosted and free. Setup snags exist (Claude token quirks, security trade-offs with system access, but sandboxing and local-first design keep most power users hooked.)

Clawdbot isn’t polite Siri waiting for your command. It’s a powerful automation tool with no guardrails. Try to run it yourself (with extreme caution, preferably on a new machine!)
→ clawd.bot
→ github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot

Anthropic is preparing to roll out Security Center for Claude Code, a centralized dashboard that consolidates scans, flags issues across repositories, and lets developers run manual checks by repository or branch.

Formerly called AutoPatch, the feature integrates directly into Claude Code, simplifying security workflows for teams and individuals. Its release comes as OpenAI upgrades Codex and hits “Cybersecurity High.” No launch date has been announced.

Claude’s Excel integration, previously in beta, is now available to all Pro subscribers, embedding AI assistance directly into productivity workflows.

The Claude CoWork effect had interest in Claude Code surging. Similarweb reports strong growth in searches, website traffic, app downloads, and daily active users over the past month. Analysts link the spike to Security Center and expanded integrations, signaling rising adoption of Anthropic’s AI tools among developers managing complex, security-sensitive code. Read more.

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