Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/hark-previews-its-browser-use-agent-for-completing-tasks/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260805/i30.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260805/p30#a260805p30" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ivan Mehta / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/hark-previews-its-browser-use-agent-for-completing-tasks/">Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently to complete tasks.</p>