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6 articles tagged with computer use
Meta's Muse Agent Gives Every User a Cloud-Hosted Ubuntu Linux Machine
Every user of Meta's Muse agent gets a free, full-featured cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux, according to Meta Superintelligence Labs VP David Singleton. The app has drawn over 500,000 users in its first week and hit #1 on the Apple App Store.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Claims SOTA Computer Use and Coding — But Independent Tests Show Mixed Gains at Higher Cost
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, claiming state-of-the-art computer use and coding performance alongside new alignment techniques. Independent evaluators found real but uneven gains, higher per-task costs, and reduced chain-of-thought monitorability.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Claims State-of-the-Art Computer Use and 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, claiming state-of-the-art results on computer use, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks. The model is rolling out to a limited set of organizations first, with general ChatGPT availability expected within days.
Anthropic Brings Background Computer Use to Claude Code and Cowork on Mac
Anthropic has enabled background computer use for Claude Code and Claude Cowork on macOS, available to Pro and Max subscribers. The feature lets Claude click, type, and open apps on a Mac without taking over the user's active cursor, following a similar launch by OpenAI's ChatGPT earlier in 2026.
Anthropic SDK v0.124.0 Moves Files and Skills APIs to General Availability, Adds Computer Use and Browser Use Toolsets
Anthropic released v0.124.0 of its Python SDK, graduating the Files and Skills APIs to general availability and introducing new computer use and browser use toolsets. The release is available now on GitHub.
Microsoft Releases Fara-7B: 7B Parameter Computer Use Agent Trained in 2.5 Days on 64 H100s
Microsoft Research has released Fara-7B, a 7-billion parameter small language model designed for computer automation tasks. The model, which took 2.5 days to train on 64 H100 GPUs, can navigate websites to complete tasks like booking restaurants and shopping, using screenshots as input with a 128K token context window.