computer-use agentsOpenAI Bought Macs. Your Pilot Bills 24 Hours Minimum.
OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents, and Anthropic rents Mac capacity through AWS. The reason matters to your pilot: a desktop agent's unit of cost is a machine, not a token, and Apple's licence caps you at two virtual desktops per Mac while every cloud Mac host bills a 24-hour minimum.
September 1, 2026 · 15 min readGemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.5 Flash Computer Use Threatens the $35B RPA Market
Computer use is now a built-in, native tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash — Google's fastest, cheapest enterprise AI model. This isn't a demo. It's a production-grade capability that lets AI agents see screens, click buttons, and navigate software across browser, mobile, and desktop environments. With a 78.4% OSWorld score at Flash-tier pricing, Google just changed the economics of enterprise automation. The $35B RPA market should be paying attention.
June 25, 2026 · 15 min read