Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typing into ...

Anthropic has given its AI assistant Claude the ability to take direct control of a user’s desktop, opening applications, clicking through menus, and typing into fields the same way a person would.

What is a computer use agent? One of the big downsides of AI chatbots was that they were originally limited to their conversational interface, but that's now changing. With Claude computer use and ...

Anthropic is trialling a feature that lets users send prompts to Claude from a smartphone. Claude will complete the task on its own on a person's computer. Anthropic's product underscores its push ...

Google is preparing to let Gemini-powered agents control your computer and “organize your files,” in a move to rival ...

In 2024, as Anthropic suggested at the time, the feature wasn’t really ready for productive use — it was genuinely crazy to watch work but also slow, error-prone, and prone to quickly losing track of ...

Anthropic is pushing Claude beyond chat into “agent” work for non-coders. Cowork repackages the computer-using capabilities behind Claude Code into a simpler macOS experience where users can assign ...

We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, and we’re not prepared for what could happen next. On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time, nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the US stock ...

For a brief period last year, it seemed that AI-powered gadgets like the Rabbit R1 were going to be the next big thing. People were fascinated by the idea of replacing their smartphones with tiny ...