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 ...

Microsoft’s Fara-7B is a 7B-parameter computer-use agent that runs locally on PCs, rivals GPT-4o on web tasks, and adds safety checkpoints for risky actions. Microsoft has unveiled Fara-7B, a compact ...

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 ...

While computer-use models are still too slow and unreliable, browser agents are already becoming production-ready, even in critical sectors such as healthcare and insurance. In January 2025, OpenAI ...

The demos look remarkable. An AI agent opens a browser, navigates a website, fills out a form, and books a flight, all without a human touching the keyboard. Over the past several months, a wave of ...

Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to ...

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 ...

Microsoft has developed a new component called UI-Evol that makes computer-use AI models much more accurate compared to ones which don't use it. Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia have developed ...