Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help scale Claude Code. Vercept had created tools for more complex agentic tasks, including its … Read more

Netball Super League: England’s Jess Shaw targeting NSL final after return to Loughborough Lightning for 2026 season | Netball News

Loughborough Lightning star Jess Shaw is targeting a strong season for club and country as she seeks to ensure her England spot at this summer’s Commonwealth Games. Having left the Lightning in 2020, Shaw has had successful spells with Team Bath, Severn Stars and Birmingham Panthers but now returns to last year’s Netball Super League … Read more

Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company’s goal is to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and delivering results than Nvidia’s GPUs. … Read more

Eric Ramsay sacked: West Brom part company with boss after failing to win in eight league games | Football News

West Brom have sacked Eric Ramsay just 44 days after appointing him head coach. Appointed in January to replace Ryan Mason, Ramsay made the step over from manager of Minnesota United in the MLS, but struggled during his time at The Hawthorns, failing to win any of his eight league games in charge. The 34-year-old … Read more

Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model

Large language models have a problem: they are large. Multiverse Computing, a Spanish startup, is addressing this issue with compressed models that aim to close the gap between what frontier models can do and what companies can actually afford to deploy.  The secret sauce is CompactifAI, a compression technology inspired by quantum computing that the … Read more

Dundee Utd 0 – 0 Aberdeen

Dundee United and Aberdeen had to settle for a share of the spoils after a grim Scottish Premiership game with few chances. The home side did hit the woodwork but a 0-0 draw was probably a fair outcome. However, it was a result neither side really wanted as they looked to keep alive their slim … Read more