What is a computer use agent?

Zapier reports that while AI computer agents like Claude and ChatGPT can now control computers, safety concerns persist.

Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push

Anthropic and its rivals are trying to ramp up capabilities of AI agents after OpenClaw went viral earlier this year.

Anchor Browser Launches OmniConnect, Eliminating the #1 Cause of Enterprise Computer Use Failure

New infrastructure integration with 1Password gives computer use agents self-healing authentication - solving the ...
Neowin

Microsoft 365 Copilot's Researcher agent can now take action with 'Computer Use'

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 ...
MacStories

OpenAI’s New Codex App Has the Best ‘Computer Use’ Feature I’ve Ever Tested

OpenAI rolled out their updated Codex app for Mac yesterday and, among other things, they shipped a native computer use tool ...
VentureBeat

Google's 'Watch & Learn' framework cracks the data bottleneck for training computer-use agents

A new framework developed by researchers at Google Cloud and DeepMind aims to address one of the key challenges of developing computer use agents (CUAs): Gathering high-quality training examples at ...