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

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2 points by adamhowell 2 months ago · 2 comments

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TheTriunePrism 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

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