As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

The desktop apps for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini used to confine AI to a chat box. Now they’re aiming to unleash AI agents on your PC, and that’s only the beginning.

Perplexity Computer is a cloud AI agent that browses the web, creates files, and connects to 400+ tools like Slack and Gmail.

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 ...

Manus is moving beyond the cloud with a new desktop app that lets its My Computer agent handle tasks directly on your computer, from organizing files to running apps. The post Meta brings Manus AI ...

Microsoft has developed a new component called UI-Evol that makes computer-use AI models much more accurate compared to ones which don't use it. Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia have developed ...

Perplexity announced Computer for Enterprise at its Ask 2026 developer conference, launching a multi-model AI agent with ...

Cowork can also use the data in that folder to create new projects -- but it's still in early access, so be cautious. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from ...

Microsoft’s New ‘Fara-7B’ AI Agent Rivals GPT-4o, Runs Locally on Your PC Your email has been sent Microsoft has unveiled Fara-7B, a compact computer-use AI model designed to perform tasks the way a ...

On Wednesday, Perplexity announced Personal Computer, an AI agent that “runs continuously, merging your local applications with Perplexity Computer.” The system runs on Perplexity’s “secure servers,” ...

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 ...

The model can interpret on-screen visuals, automate tasks directly on the device, and give enterprises a more affordable alternative to cloud-dependent AI agents. Microsoft is pushing agentic AI ...