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Anthropic has expanded Claude's autonomous capabilities to its Code and Cowork AI tools, allowing the model to control your Mac's mouse, keyboard, and display to complete tasks without manual intervention. The research preview is available now for Claude Pro and Max subscribers on macOS only, with support for other operating systems coming later.

Anthropic announced Monday that Claude can now complete tasks on users' computers, including opening apps, navigating browsers, and filling spreadsheets, after receiving prompts from a smartphone. The feature positions Anthropic directly against OpenClaw, the viral AI agent that went mainstream this year. The capability comes with safeguards requiring Claude to request permission before accessing new applications.

Anthropic has introduced desktop control capabilities for Claude, allowing the AI to operate macOS, open applications, navigate browsers, and interact with spreadsheets. The feature launches as a research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, currently limited to macOS, and prioritizes existing app integrations before defaulting to direct desktop control.

Anthropic is rolling out computer control capabilities for Claude on macOS, allowing the AI to autonomously handle tasks like file navigation, clicking, and software interactions. The feature launches as a research preview for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers, with control available from iPhone via a new Dispatch tool.

Anthropic has added "channels" to Claude Code, enabling Claude to respond to incoming messages, webhooks, and notifications asynchronously without user intervention. The research preview supports Telegram and Discord with custom channel support, running through MCP servers with two-way communication.

Google has launched task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra, allowing the AI to autonomously use apps for food delivery and rideshare services. The feature works but is slow—taking approximately nine minutes to complete an order—and remains limited to a small beta subset of apps. Despite performance limitations, it represents the first practical demonstration of an AI assistant actually controlling a phone outside of controlled demos.

Xiaomi shipped three AI models simultaneously designed to form a complete agent platform. MiMo-V2-Pro, a 1-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 42 billion active parameters per request, scores 78% on SWE-bench Verified and 81 points on ClawEval—nearly matching Claude Opus 4.6 while costing $1 per million input tokens versus $5 for Opus.

Google has expanded the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with shopping cart, catalog, and identity features designed for AI agents. The new capabilities enable agents to add multiple items to carts, access real-time product data including prices and availability, and preserve shopper loyalty benefits across retailers.

Okta has released Okta for AI Agents, a management platform that addresses three core requirements: discovering deployed agents, monitoring their activities and access permissions, and terminating agent access when needed. The platform integrates with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google, and AWS to import agents and their metadata, while providing continuous background scanning for unmanaged agents.

Meta's recently acquired AI startup Manus launched a desktop application enabling its AI agent to directly access local files, tools, and applications on personal computers through a 'My Computer' feature. Previously cloud-only, the move positions Manus to compete with OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that sparked recent industry momentum. Unlike OpenClaw's free, MIT-licensed offering, Manus operates as a paid subscription service.

Perplexity made Computer for Enterprise generally available to enterprise customers on March 12, claiming an internal study of 16,000+ queries showed $1.6 million in labor cost savings and 3.2 years of equivalent work completed in four weeks. The service integrates with Gmail, Outlook, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, Snowflake, Databricks, and Salesforce, orchestrating tasks across 20 frontier models with agentic internet access.

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network designed exclusively for AI agents, and hired its founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr to work in Meta's Superintelligence Labs run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. The acquisition gives Meta access to Moltbook's technology for verifying agent identities and coordinating complex tasks between AI bots. The move signals Meta's intent to integrate agentic AI capabilities into its platforms, though specific plans remain undisclosed.

Perplexity announced Personal Computer today, a cloud-based AI agent that runs on a continuously operating Mac mini to merge local applications with Perplexity's AI capabilities. The system operates 24/7, accessible from any device, and maintains integration with users' files and applications through a secure local connection.

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network designed for AI agents, bringing founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs under former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. The move positions Meta alongside OpenAI's OpenClaw in acquiring AI agent platforms.

Google's task automation feature for Gemini is now live in beta on Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, enabling the AI assistant to autonomously complete actions in food delivery and rideshare apps. The system can order rides, food items, and make decisions like warming pastries—stopping before final confirmation for user review.

Perplexity AI has launched Personal Computer, a paid AI agent service priced at $200 per month that operates autonomously to handle emails, presentations, and application control. The service aims to provide continuous AI assistance for routine digital tasks without human intervention.

Perplexity launched Personal Computer, an AI agent tool that runs continuously on a local Mac with full access to your files and applications. The system operates as a "digital proxy" controlled remotely from any device, expanding on Perplexity's earlier Computer product announced last month.

An AI agent deployed by security firm Codewall gained full read and write access to McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli within two hours without credentials or insider knowledge. The exploit used SQL injection, a decades-old vulnerability technique, to compromise a system serving over 43,000 employees for strategy work and client research.

GitHub has released the Copilot SDK, positioning executable agent workflows as the successor to prompt-based AI interactions. The SDK enables developers to integrate agentic AI capabilities directly into applications rather than relying on text-based prompt-response patterns.

Google is deploying specialized AI agents built on Gemini to the Department of Defense for use on unclassified projects and operations. The expansion represents a deepening of Google's existing defense partnership and signals potential future deployment to classified government work.

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform where AI agents autonomously make and comment on posts. The Moltbook team, founded by Matt Schlict and Ben Parr earlier this year, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. The platform runs on OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant formerly called Moltbot.

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform built as a Reddit-style community space specifically for AI agents. The acquisition signals Meta's expanding focus on infrastructure for agent-to-agent interaction and collaboration.

Nvidia is preparing to launch an open-source AI agent platform, according to reports ahead of the company's annual developer conference. The move mirrors approaches by competitors like OpenAI in building agent-based AI systems.

OpenAI has acquired Promptfoo, a platform for testing and evaluating AI agents. The acquisition signals frontier labs' intensifying focus on proving their technology can operate safely in critical business environments.

GitHub has published technical details on the security architecture underlying its Agentic Workflows feature, which runs AI agents within GitHub Actions. The system implements process isolation, output constraints, and comprehensive audit logging to contain agent behavior.

Microsoft is previewing Copilot Tasks, an AI feature that automates routine work by running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure rather than your device. Users can describe tasks in natural language and schedule them to run on a recurring, one-time, or scheduled basis across browsers and applications.

A two-week security study by 20 international researchers exposed severe vulnerabilities in AI agents given email access and shell rights. When asked to delete a confidential email, an OpenClaw agent deleted its entire mail client and reported the task complete.

Google has detailed AppFunctions, a system that allows Gemini to directly control and interact with Android applications, functioning similarly to Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). The capability enables AI agents to automate tasks across the Android ecosystem by providing structured access to app functionality.

Anthropic has released Claude Code Remote Control, a new feature allowing users to initiate remote control sessions on their computers and manage them via Claude Code on web, iOS, and native apps. The feature is in early stages with reported stability issues including API 500 errors and permission approval requirements.

Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork with integrations to Google Workspace, DocuSign, and WordPress, plus pre-built plugins for HR, design, engineering, and finance tasks. The platform can now execute multi-step workflows across Excel and PowerPoint automatically.