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macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents

A Mac Mini running macOS is being used as an autonomous AI agent that performs tasks like reading version numbers, browsing Safari, and filing reminders without human intervention, demonstrating how macOS is becoming a testing ground for AI agents.

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Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, digs up a release year, then quietly files a reminder, the kind of dull three-app errand a human would grumble through in ninety seconds. The machine just works, hour after hour, an AI agent with hands on the keyboard and no one in the room. That … More

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