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Anthropic’s Claude can now control your Mac, escalating the fight to build AI agents that actually do work

Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user’s Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typing into fields, and navigating software on the user’s behalf while they step away from their desk. The update, available immediately as a research preview for…

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Cloudflare’s new Dynamic Workers ditch containers to run AI agent code 100x faster

Web infrastructure giant Cloudflare is seeking to transform the way enterprises deploy AI agents with the open beta release of Dynamic Workers, a new lightweight, isolate-based sandboxing system that it says starts in milliseconds, uses only a few megabytes of memory, and can run on the same machine — even the same thread — as…

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Ai2 releases MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent with 30K human task trajectories and a full training stack

Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them. Ai2 is now offering a third option. The Seattle-based nonprofit behind the open-source OLMo language models and Molmo vision-language family today is releasing MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4…

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Show us your agents: VB Transform 2026 is looking for the most innovative agentic AI technologies

The Innovation Showcase is back at Transform 2026: The Orchestration of Enterprise Agentic AI at Scale, taking place July 14 and 15 in Menlo Park. This year, we are moving beyond generative AI to autonomous agents, focusing on enterprise agentic orchestration, LLM observability and evaluation (LLMOps), RAG infrastructure, inference platforms and optimization, and agentic AI…

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The three disciplines separating AI agent demos from real-world deployment

Getting AI agents to perform reliably in production — not just in demos — is turning out to be harder than enterprises anticipated. Fragmented data, unclear workflows, and runaway escalation rates are slowing deployments across industries. “The technology itself often works well in demonstrations,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst with Greyhound Research. “The challenge…

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Nvidia’s Nemotron-Cascade 2 wins math and coding gold medals with 3B active parameters — and its post-training recipe is now open-source

The prevailing assumption in AI development has been straightforward: larger models trained on more data produce better results. Nvidia’s latest release directly challenges that size assumption — and the training recipe behind it may matter more to enterprise AI teams than the model itself. The open-weight model’s Cascade RL post-training pipeline, detailed in Nvidia’s technical…

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You thought the generalist was dead — in the ‘vibe work’ era, they’re more important than ever

Not long ago, the idea of being a “generalist” in the workplace had a mixed reputation. The stereotype was the “jack of all trades” who could dabble in many disciplines but was a “master of none.” And for years, that was more or less true.  Most people simply didn’t have access to the expertise required…

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Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we’ve spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we’ll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it’s not whether the model can answer questions. That’s table stakes now. What haunts us is the mental image of an agent autonomously approving a six-figure vendor contract at 2 a.m. because…

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Three ways AI is learning to understand the physical world

Large language models are running into limits in domains that require an understanding of the physical world — from robotics to autonomous driving to manufacturing. That constraint is pushing investors toward world models, with AMI Labs raising a $1.03 billion seed round shortly after World Labs secured $1 billion. Large language models (LLMs) excel at…

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Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversation. But the benchmarks used to evaluate those models are largely still running on synthetic speech, English-only prompts, and scripted test…

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