#computer_use

What caught my eye here is not the “computer-use 2.0” branding. It’s that Cua seems to be trying to own the unglamorous layer underneath all the demos: desktops, sandboxes, evaluation tasks, and the tooling to move between them. That feels much more practical than yet another agent wrapper. If you’ve tried to build with Claude Code or any other agent that touches real apps, you know the annoying part is rarely the model prompt. It’s everything around it: permissions, screenshots, app focus, clea

For anyone building with Claude or Claude Code, this is one of those “pay attention, this space is moving fast” announcements. Google is folding computer use into its main Flash model, which means agent workflows are getting pushed closer to the core model rather than bolted on as a separate specialty path. Google says computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash. It replaces the earlier standalone Gemini 2.5 computer use model as the native route. The pitch is agentic work across bro