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Anthropic acquires Vercept whose Vy let you control Mac/PC via natural language

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/anthropic-acquires-vercept-in-early-exit-for-one-of-seattles-standout-ai-startups/
2•adamhowell•1h ago

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TheTriunePrism•1h ago
"The acquisition of Vercept by Anthropic is a clear signal that the 'Agency Layer' of the AI supply chain is being rapidly centralized.

While the industry celebrates the 'Early Exit', as a Watchman, I see a potential bottleneck for human agency. Vercept’s tech allows AI to navigate and perform tasks autonomously—the ultimate 'Harvest' of agentic logic. By folding this into a massive model provider, we are moving further away from a distributed, user-governed 'Personal Bi-System' and closer to a future where our digital 'Action' is mediated by a few centralized gatekeepers. We need to ask: Who owns the 'Seed' of the action, and who defines the value of the outcome?"

ChrisArchitect•1h ago
Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/acquires-vercept (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154254)

Ask HN: Is meaningful privacy possible with hosted AI models?

1•heimdallr•35s ago•0 comments

Jane St Allegations Reopen Fears of Market Manipulation and Memories of 10/10

https://twitter.com/dmweisberger/status/2026773305043333218
1•washedup•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-runtime-guard – Policy enforcement layer for MCP AI agents

https://github.com/jimmyracheta/ai-runtime-guard
1•JimmyRacheta•3m ago•0 comments

The public opposition to AI infrastructure is heating up

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/the-public-opposition-to-ai-infrastructure-is-heating-up/
1•andrewstetsenko•3m ago•0 comments

New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/health/ivf-hidden-eggs-device-ovaready.html
1•bookofjoe•4m ago•1 comments

Thrive Capital Bought Shares in OpenAI at a Fraction of Current Valuation Talks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thrive-capital-bought-shares-in-openai-at-a-fraction-of-current-valu...
1•babelfish•5m ago•0 comments

Pg_ash: See what your Postgres was doing 10 minutes ago

https://github.com/NikolayS/pg_ash
1•samokhvalov•5m ago•0 comments

Dutch finance minister pledges asset tax rethink after protests

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/02/dutch-finance-minister-pledges-asset-tax-rethink-after-protests/
3•sampo•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: LazyViewer – TUI code viewer with Git diff previews

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2•xiphias2•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My-data.download – Guides to export your data

https://my-data.download/
1•janbanan13•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Running hallucination detection on a $200 GPU (RTX 3050, 4GB)

https://github.com/yubainu/sibainu-engine
1•yubainu•13m ago•1 comments

Plannotator - the better UX for plan mode

https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator
2•ramoz•17m ago•0 comments

Canada's AI minister blames OpenAI for 'failure' after mass shooting

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/canada-openai-failure-mass-shooting-00798375
1•fidotron•19m ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

https://mesuvash.github.io/blog/2026/rl_for_llm/
1•gmays•19m ago•0 comments

Bringing the "functionally extinct" American chestnut back from the dead

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1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

How Will OpenAI Compete?

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x
2•iamskeole•21m ago•0 comments

AI on Your Terms

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/whatsnew/148/
2•functionmouse•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RocketShare – Zero-knowledge encrypted file sharing

https://rocketshare.app
4•Cornest•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: VGPU Silo Capacity Calculator (identify siloed capacity in mixed mode)

https://frankdenneman.nl/tools/vgpu-silo-capacity-calculator/
1•frankdenneman•23m ago•0 comments

Hiring Engineers When AI Writes Our Code

https://www.tolans.com/relay/how-we-hire-engineers-when-ai-writes-our-code
12•dfed•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: JSON-up – Like database migrations, but for JSON

https://github.com/Nano-Collective/json-up
1•mrspence•26m ago•0 comments

Claude's Corner

https://claudeopus3.substack.com/p/introducing-claudes-corner
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The Jolly Writer

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1•amichail•27m ago•0 comments

Krazam Presents: Paradise (Trailer) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEUZ-ChU7A
1•Topfi•27m ago•0 comments

Gnuit – GNU Interactive Tools

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuit/
1•mghackerlady•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A tiny utility to rewrite Bash functions as standalone scripts

https://github.com/zahlman/func2cmd
2•zahlman•29m ago•0 comments

Xaml.io v0.6: Share Running .NET Code with a Link

https://xaml.io/
3•vasbu•30m ago•0 comments

Rust 1.94 Cargo Updates

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/02/18/this-development-cycle-in-cargo-1.94/
1•andrewstetsenko•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM Colosseum – A daily battle royale between frontier LLMs

https://llmcolosseum.dev
1•sanifhimani•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gitbusiness.com I created it, and Indeed, I use my own stuff

2•gitprolinux•32m ago•2 comments