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, 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