Who is building the agent operating system?
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Anthropic · Cross-App Actions
Real orchestration · updated 2026-06-01
MCP turns Claude into a cross-app actor and is becoming the industry's connection standard.
Can the assistant reach across apps and services to actually do things (book, send, schedule, edit) rather than describe how you'd do them? The difference between a chatbot and a control plane.
- NewsAnthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for youCNBC · 2026-03-24
Anthropic expands Claude's computer-use as part of a push toward agents that operate screens and apps for you.
- AnalysisA Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic EraOne Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) · 2026-02-18
A models/apps/harnesses framework: the harness that lets a model take real actions now matters as much as IQ.
- AnalysisAnthropic's Claude Code is having its 'ChatGPT' momentUncoverAlpha · 2026-01-26
Claude Code's terminal-native agent design drove rapid enterprise adoption and measurable productivity gains.
- PrimaryOne Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec ReleaseModel Context Protocol · 2025-11-25
MCP's rise from open-source experiment to de facto standard adopted across OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub, and Google.
- AnalysisModel Context Protocol has prompt injection security problemsSimon Willison · 2025-04-09
How MCP's open tool model enables prompt-injection and 'rug pull' mutations: the security tax of the standard.
- PrimaryIntroducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic · 2024-10-22
The first frontier model to navigate a screen by moving a cursor, clicking, and typing.