Microsoft’s Fara-7B is a 7B-parameter computer-use agent that runs locally on PCs, rivals GPT-4o on web tasks, and adds safety checkpoints for risky actions. Microsoft has unveiled Fara-7B, a compact ...

What is a computer use agent? One of the big downsides of AI chatbots was that they were originally limited to their conversational interface, but that's now changing. With Claude computer use and ...

The demos look remarkable. An AI agent opens a browser, navigates a website, fills out a form, and books a flight, all without a human touching the keyboard. Over the past several months, a wave of ...

While computer-use models are still too slow and unreliable, browser agents are already becoming production-ready, even in critical sectors such as healthcare and insurance. In January 2025, OpenAI ...

A team at Hugging Face has released a freely available, cloud-hosted computer-using AI “agent.” But be forewarned: It’s quite sluggish and occasionally makes mistakes. Hugging Face’s agent, called ...

Google on Tuesday announced a brand-new AI model called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, releasing it in preview to developers. If you've been following the AI industry, you might be familiar with the term ...

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model is a new AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and interact with UIs—clicking, typing, and scrolling based on text prompts. Built on Gemini 2.5 Pro, this ...

I feel like I’m in a pretty unique position to comment on all this since, as MacStories readers will recall, I was able to test Sky for several months last year before the team went radio-silent and ...