AI Tech Brief — Thursday, 26 Feb 2026 (Dubai)

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Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use AI Startup Vercept

Why it matters: Consolidating its lead in computer-use agents after Meta poached a Vercept co-founder. A massive move for foundational UI automation.

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OpenAI COO Admits Enterprise AI Adoption is Lagging

Why it matters: Despite the recent launch of OpenAI Frontier, Brad Lightcap says businesses haven't yet seen AI penetration in core processes at scale.

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Multiverse Computing Drops HyperNova 60B

Why it matters: The Spanish "soonicorn" released a free compressed model that reportedly beats Mistral Large 3, showing Europe's growing open-weights muscle.

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Google Cloud AI's Three New Frontiers

Why it matters: Google's AI lead outlines the next competitive vectors—pushing beyond raw intelligence to focus heavily on response time and model "extensibility".

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The First Fully General Computer Action Model

Why it matters: Surging on Hacker News, a new foundation model trained purely on general computer actions takes us closer to universal UI-based agents.

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Comp Raises Backing to Replace Legacy HR with AI

Why it matters: Keith Rabois-backed startup Comp is taking on incumbents like Mercer by fully automating compensation strategy.

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Making the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Cheaper

Why it matters: Developers are building CLI tooling to slash the cost of MCP, making file-access and agentic workflows much more viable locally.

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Learnings from 4 Months of Image-Video VAE Experiments

Why it matters: A highly regarded open-source dev log detailing the brutal reality and technical bottlenecks of building latent spaces for video generation.

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Show HN: Respectify – The AI Comment Moderator

Why it matters: A new tool that doesn't just block toxic comments, but actively uses AI to teach people how to argue better online.

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The Om Programming Language for AI Workflows

Why it matters: A new programming language gaining traction for natively handling modern, complex systems and potentially AI integration pipelines. 🔥 VIRAL MOMENTS

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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs:

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Windows 11 Notepad Finally Supports Markdown:

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The Post-Subscription AI Economy:

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