In 2024, as Anthropic suggested at the time, the feature wasn’t really ready for productive use — it was genuinely crazy to ...

Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new feature that allows the AI model to use your computer to perform tasks automatically.

Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks in its Code and Cowork AI tools autonomously by using your computer for you.

Anthropic has updated its Claude Cowork and Claude Code tools to let them autonomously carry out tasks on your PC. Without ...

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you may ...

PC monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to pick one that will suit your needs and budget. Most people treat their monitor like a printer. They just want it to work ...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...