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 ...

Computer-Using or Computer Use Agents (CUAs) are agentic AI capabilities that enable an AI model to perceive a screen “visually” and control it like a person would — clicking, typing, navigating an ...

Perplexity is launching its AI agent “Computer” with “Portable Computer” in a local-first variant. Unlike previous versions, it will not only provide access to files and applications on the computer; ...

Perplexity's new agentic Portable Computer runs AI locally. Local AI is faster and cheaper than cloud-based models. But you'll need some beefy hardware for Linux or Windows. Perplexity has unveiled a ...

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 ...

Microsoft is updating the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot with a new "Computer Use" capability to move beyond public web searches. Back in June, Microsoft announced the new Researcher agent ...

Google has moved “computer use” from a specialized model into Google Gemini 3.5 Flash, making agent-style control of browsers, apps, and desktop workflows a built-in capability instead of a separate ...

Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic "Computer" platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer ...

I have an old Lenovo Windows laptop that I no longer use as my main computer. It still works, so I wanted to give it a proper ...