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,

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.

It is a new AI model capable of replicating the performance of its largest system, but with the cost and speed of its smallest. The company also revealed a new version of its mid-sized model, Claude 3.