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.

Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of