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 ...

OpenAI and rival AI labs are buying Apple's consumer desktop line to train computer-use agents. The M6 Mac mini is sold out ...

AI agents built to run everyday computer tasks have a serious context problem, according to new research from UC Riverside. The team tested 10 agents and models from major developers, including OpenAI ...

According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer agents. Anthropic also relies on Apple hardware. Demand is so high that the most ...

A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Notably, the benchmark comparisons Hark provided to VentureBeat for its Handoff AI agent are against GPT 5.5, GPT 5.4, Opus 4.8, and Gemini 2.5 Pro — the prior generation of frontier models.

Mac mini and Mac Studio computers are selling well because they are well-suited to running AI agents and developing AI tools locally instead of on cloud services, The Information reported Sunday, ...

Perplexity Portable Computer runs AI agents locally on NVIDIA DGX Spark, offering private AI computing with optional ...