Anthropic said it acquired Vercept on February 25, 2026 to advance Claude’s computer-use capabilities. In its announcement, Anthropic cited recent Sonnet 4.6 gains on OSWorld and said Vercept will wind down its external product to join Anthropic.
Google is introducing Gemini task automation in early preview on select Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 devices. The assistant can prepare multi-step app actions like ride-hailing and food orders while users keep final submission control.
NVIDIA’s February 19, 2026 telecom AI survey indicates that operators are tying AI adoption directly to revenue, cost, and automation outcomes. The data points to rising 2026 AI budgets and a faster move toward AI-native networks ahead of traditional 6G timelines.
A high-engagement LocalLLaMA post highlighted local deployment paths for MiniMax-M2.5, pointing to Unsloth GGUF packaging and renewed discussion on memory, cost, and agentic workloads.
Microsoft announced on January 5, 2026 that it is acquiring Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform. The company says the move is intended to reduce manual data-prep overhead and extend Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake-centered data workflow automation.
NVIDIA’s February 16, 2026 update cites SemiAnalysis InferenceX data indicating major efficiency gains for GB300 NVL72 versus Hopper in agentic AI inference. The company also said Microsoft, CoreWeave, and OCI are deploying GB300 NVL72 for low-latency and long-context workloads.
Anthropic and Infosys announced a collaboration on February 17, 2026 to build enterprise AI agents for telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software workflows. The partnership combines Claude and Claude Code with Infosys Topaz and emphasizes governance and transparency for regulated sectors.
Anthropic has donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. With participation from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and AWS, MCP becomes the standard for AI agent integration.
OpenAI and Anthropic engaged in a dramatic race to release their latest AI coding models on February 5, with Anthropic moving its announcement 15 minutes earlier and OpenAI responding with GPT-5.3-Codex, the first model that helped build itself.