Great, Another Bloody Acquisition to Pretend We Care About

Oh for fuck’s sake. Look what dropped into my bloody feed today—Anthropic, that oh-so-ethical AI outfit, has gone and bought Vercept because apparently they couldn’t be arsed to build their own computer-use capabilities. You know, the kind of shit that lets AI agents click buttons and pretend they’re human office drones rather than the statistical parrots they actually are.

But wait, it gets better. This whole fire sale only happened because Meta, those data-sucking bastards, decided to poach one of Vercept’s founders first. Nothing says “we value your intellectual property” quite like stealing the key personnel and leaving the rest of the company staggering around like a headless chicken until someone—Anthropic in this case—swoops in with a checkbook to buy the remaining scraps and the broken office Nespresso machine.

Vercept was supposedly doing something magical with AI agents that can actually use computers—read screens, click shit, fill out forms, probably order pizza when the engineers get peckish. Now Anthropic gets to bolt that onto Claude while the founders get to buy private islands and the VCs get to pretend they knew what they were doing all along instead of just throwing money at anything with “agent” in the pitch deck.

And let’s be real, this is just the latest episode in the AI industry’s ongoing circle-jerk where companies can’t decide whether to acquire, poach, or just blatantly rip each other off. Meta takes the talent, Anthropic takes the leftovers, and the rest of us get to watch as these glorified autocomplete engines get stuffed with more compute and buzzwords about “safety” while the founders laugh all the way to the Cayman Islands.

Read the bloody thing here if you must: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-acquires-vercept-ai-startup-agents-computer-use-founders-investors/

You want a fucking anecdote? Fine. Reminds me of the time I watched a sysadmin get poached by a FAANG company, leaving behind a codebase held together by bubble gum, cron jobs, and Stack Overflow posts copied from 2012. The poor bastards who stayed got “acquired” three months later by a competitor who wanted the office furniture more than the product. The AI industry is just the same shitshow with bigger egos and more PowerPoint decks about “alignment” and “beneficial outcomes.” The moral? People are assets until they’re liabilities, and your revolutionary codebase is just intellectual property to be liquidated when the founder fucks off to Menlo Park.

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