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 ...

Perplexity Personal Computer brings always-on desktop AI, local file access, and AI workflow automation to long-running tasks ...

Anthropic has launched a “computer use” feature for Claude, allowing the AI agent to control macOS desktops to perform tasks like editing files and navigating browsers. It aims to compete with the ...

OpenAI's Codex Desktop can run your computer now - and has its own browser ...

This week, AI agents gained desktop control, while 20% of companies captured 74% of AI's economic gains by redesigning workflows. Apple's 50th anniversary underscored consistent branding, and OpenAI's ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

PCWorld examines new personal AI assistants like Claude Cowork and Perplexity’s Personal Computer that offer advanced desktop automation but pose significant security risks. These tools can manipulate ...

Update: Perplexity said in March it would unleash Personal Computer software to work as an artificial intelligence manager for Mac, and now it’s available. Today we're releasing Personal Computer.

In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking and scrolling on a user’s behalf. At the time, LLM use was ...