How does Astra's computer use actually work?
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent model yet, highlighting its computer use capability, which builds on the Codex/ChatGPT harness from the 5.6 model family and outperforms previous visi…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent model yet, highlighting its computer use capability, which builds on the Codex/ChatGPT harness from the 5.6 model family and outperforms previous visi…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, three months after the first Fable and Mythos models, with Fable 5.1 cutting cache-hit pricing by 75% to $0.25 per million tok…
Anthropic unveiled Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its latest AI models for enterprise agentic workloads, and cut cached input token pricing by 75% from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens. Fabl…
McKinsey estimates AI agents could mediate $3 trillion to $5 trillion of global commerce by 2030, while Bain projects $300 to $500 billion in U.S. e-commerce, as platforms grapple with verifying legit…
Stagehand v4, released on August 10 by Browserbase, moves its core state tracking, CDP dispatch, and target management from the client into a browser extension, eliminating the stale mirror that cause…
Arcade acquired Smithery on August 5th, giving co-founder and CEO Alex Salazar control of a widely used registry for Model Context Protocol tools as Arcade pushes deeper into AI agent infrastructure. …
Context.dev, founded by Yahia Bakour, launched on Y Combinator on Wednesday, August 5th, offering a single API that collects, structures, and continuously refreshes internet data for AI agents. The pr…
A developer's automated screening system falsely flagged legitimate vendors like Browserbase and Tavily as honeypots because it assumed payment address rotation indicates fraud, highlighting the need …
The Browser Tools SDK from Libretto achieves a 24/26 pass rate on live-site tasks and claims to be 55% cheaper than alternatives like playwright-cli or agent-browser, with a cost per task of $0.106 an…
Agents should write code instead of calling many custom tools, argues Browserbase. A single code-execution surface reduces context usage by roughly 88% compared to 40 always-loaded tools, because mode…
QAgent, a self-healing QA agent that automatically tests web applications, identifies bugs, applies fixes, and verifies fixes without human intervention, has been released as an open-source project on…
Browserbase released Stagehand, an open-source browser automation SDK that uses AI to resolve plain-English instructions into real page elements at runtime, while deterministic code performs the click…
Monid founder Shengkun Ye on July 20th launched pay-per-use access to public social media data, giving AI agents a single interface for reading posts, comments, profiles and engagement signals across …
Anthropic's Claude Code now includes an in-app browser that lets developers navigate live web pages, take screenshots, annotate elements, and bring visual context into coding workflows without requiri…
The WebArena leaderboard shows that even the best-performing AI agents have a success rate of only 45.7% on real-world tasks, highlighting significant challenges in reliability, cost, and user trust. …
AgentQL, an AI-powered web scraping and automation tool with a semantic query language for page elements, is listed in the browser and computer use category of the agent stack. The tool enables agents…
Cloudflare has launched a signed agent program that allows AI agents to prove their identity via cryptographic signatures, addressing the problem of verifying which agent is accessing a site. The Web …
Browserbase launched Browserbase Agents on June 30, a managed browser agent that developers can create via natural-language prompts and run through a single API call. The product shifts Browserbase fr…
Google's Gemini Computer Use preview enables builders to test AI agents that can operate browser, mobile, and desktop environments through tools like Playwright or Browserbase, offering a workflow for…
Google's Gemini in Chrome now includes a 'Select from screen' tool that lets users add images to prompts, rolling out with Chrome 149. Separately, the Gemini 3.5 Flash model gains native computer use …