Anthropic's Tuesday announcement that it's giving its Claude model a new "computer use" capability has the AI world buzzing. Why it matters: This doesn't mean that bots have busted free of the chat box to run loose on the desktop and in the browser — but that day looks much closer,

The experimental "computer use" capability points toward AI encroaching further into the realm of human skills.

Anthropic's CEO supported the now-dead California AI safety bill, which would have introduced new safety and accountability mechanisms for large AI systems. At the same time, a group of authors is suing Anthropic for training its AI on copyrighted books, which the company has not addressed publicly.