AI News for February 1, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenClaw and Moltbook AI agent platforms exposed to trivial attacks: Security researchers found critical vulnerabilities in AI agent platforms OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) and Moltbook.
[NEWS] AI chatbots increasingly citing Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source: ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, AI Overviews, and Copilot are citing Grokipedia in their responses, raising concerns about accuracy.
[NEWS] OpenAI still leads enterprise AI, but Anthropic gaining fast: A16z survey of 100 CIOs shows OpenAI at 78% production usage, with Anthropic jumping 25 percentage points to 44% penetration.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic study: AI coding tools hurt learning unless you ask 'why': Developers learning new programming skills with AI assistance scored 17% worse on knowledge tests than a control group, without saving time.
[NEWS] Microsoft product leaders warn Anthropic's Cowork could outpace 365 Copilot: Microsoft product leaders told colleagues that Anthropic's Cowork agent appeared to be a direct competitor to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
[RESEARCH] Wiki Education study finds 67% of AI-generated Wikipedia content fails verification: Wiki Education analyzed 178 AI-flagged Wikipedia articles using Pangram, an AI-detection tool.
[RESEARCH] DeepSeek OCR 2 cuts visual tokens by 80%, outperforms Gemini 3 Pro on document parsing: DeepSeek released OCR 2, a vision encoder that rearranges image information based on meaning rather than processing top-to-bottom.
[NEWS] Indonesia lifts Grok ban after X provides assurances on sexualized content: Indonesia permitted Elon Musk's Grok AI to resume service after X provided assurances to the government following its ban for producing sexualized content.
[TOOLS] Chrome adds 'auto browse' AI agent feature: Google Chrome launched an AI agent feature that navigates the web on users' behalf, following their verbal commands.
[NEWS] Utilities seek $31B in rate increases, citing AI data center demand: Electric and gas utilities sought $31 billion in rate increases in 2025, more than double the $15 billion requested in 2024.

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