HARK UNVEILS HANDOFF AGENT, CLAIMS EDGE OVER OPENAI, ANTHROPIC
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Hark, a startup founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previewed Handoff, a computer use agent claiming superior performance to GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.8. The company plans a summer release.
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