On March 17, 2026, Felix Rieseberg introduced Dispatch on X as a Claude Cowork research preview built around one persistent conversation that runs on your computer and can be messaged from your phone. Anthropic then expanded the concept on March 23 with computer use in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, turning Dispatch into a cross-device workflow that can use local files, connectors, plugins, and desktop apps with user approval.
Anthropic said on March 30, 2026 that computer use is now available in Claude Code in research preview for Pro and Max plans. Claude Code docs say the feature lets Claude open apps, click through UI flows, and see the screen on macOS from the CLI, targeting native app testing, visual debugging, and other GUI-only tasks.
Anthropic said on February 25, 2026 that it acquired Vercept to strengthen Claude’s computer use capabilities. The company tied the deal to Sonnet 4.6’s rise to 72.5% on OSWorld and its broader push toward agent systems that can act inside live applications.
r/singularity read Anthropic's Dispatch + computer use release as a real product shift toward phone-first AI coworkers, while also focusing on the macOS-only rollout and the limits of screen-driven automation.
OpenAI said on March 5, 2026 that GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro were rolling out in ChatGPT, while GPT-5.4 also became available in the API and Codex. OpenAI’s launch page positions GPT-5.4 as a unified frontier model for reasoning, coding, native computer use, and long-horizon agent workflows.
Perplexity said on March 19, 2026 that Perplexity Computer can now connect to health apps, wearables, lab results, and medical records. The company said users can build personalized tools with that data or track everything in a health dashboard.
OpenAI posted on March 5, 2026 that GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro are rolling out across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex. The launch article positions GPT-5.4 as a professional-work model with 1M-token context, native computer use, stronger tool search, and better spreadsheet, document, and presentation performance.
OpenAI said on March 5, 2026 that GPT-5.4 is rolling out across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex. The new model combines GPT-5.3-Codex coding capability with OpenAI’s mainline reasoning stack, adds native computer-use features, and introduces experimental 1M-token context in Codex.
Perplexity says users can now guide Perplexity Computer by voice, not just text. The update turns mid-task feedback and redirection into a spoken control loop for long-running agent work on the web.
OpenAI announced GPT-5.4 on March 5, 2026, adding a new general-purpose model and GPT-5.4 Pro with stronger computer use, tool search efficiency, and benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2.
Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based AI startup Vercept to enhance Claude's computer use capabilities, folding the startup's desktop control technology and team directly into Claude development.
Anthropic said it acquired Vercept on February 25, 2026 to advance Claude’s computer-use capabilities. In its announcement, Anthropic cited recent Sonnet 4.6 gains on OSWorld and said Vercept will wind down its external product to join Anthropic.