#computer-use

Perplexity says users can now guide Perplexity Computer by voice, not just text. The update turns mid-task feedback and redirection into a spoken control loop for long-running agent work on the web.

OpenAI announced GPT-5.4 on March 5, 2026, adding a new general-purpose model and GPT-5.4 Pro with stronger computer use, tool search efficiency, and benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2.

Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based AI startup Vercept to enhance Claude's computer use capabilities, folding the startup's desktop control technology and team directly into Claude development.

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.

A high-scoring Hacker News post spotlights FDM-1, a video-native computer action model trained on an 11-million-hour dataset. The release emphasizes automatic action labeling with IDM and large-scale forking-VM evaluation for long-horizon interaction tasks.

Anthropic announced it is acquiring Vercept to strengthen Claude's computer use stack. The move pairs model-level capability gains with deeper perception-and-interaction expertise for multi-step execution inside live software environments.

Anthropic says it has acquired Vercept to push Claude’s computer-use capabilities further. The company also tied the move to Sonnet 4.6 progress, citing a rise to 72.5% on OSWorld.

Claude Sonnet 4.6, released February 17, delivers dramatically improved coding and computer use (72.5% on OSWorld—a nearly fivefold improvement) with a 1M token context window in beta, at unchanged pricing from Sonnet 4.5.