Anthropic Acquires Vercept — R-CNN Inventor Joins the Team, Computer Use Jumps from 15% to 72.5%, UiPath Stock Drops

Anthropic acquired Vercept, bringing in R-CNN inventor Ross Girshick and cofounders Kiana Ehsani and Luca Weihs to push Claude's Computer Use toward human-level computer operation. OSWorld gains and UiPath's drop show RPA investors noticed.