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Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Perplexity just announced its own AI agent, Personal Computer, that runs on Mac mini and can complete various tasks for you. The entire world is going crazy over AI agents these days. It all started ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Dear Geek, I’ve been having a bit of a debate with my spouse lately. Do I really need to turn my computer off ...

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OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot) is an agentic AI tool taking the tech sphere by storm. If you’ve missed it, it’s a gateway that plugs your tool-capable AI model of choice into a wide range of ...

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