I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

Computer-use agents (a.k.a. GUI agents) are vision-language models that observe the screen, ground UI elements, and execute bounded UI actions (click, type, scroll, key-combos) to complete tasks in ...

‘Now Microsoft users can ask Computer to work across their local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web in one place.’ ‘Now Microsoft users can ask Computer to work across their local files, ...