With help from AI, I finally tackled some computer chores that I’ve been putting off for months. My Downloads folder is cleaner than it’s been in ages. The photos that OneDrive blandly sorted by month ...

Manus's 'My Computer' feature on its new desktop application will bring its AI agent onto users' computers. Its AI agents previously operated exclusively in the cloud, meaning they were typically ...

Meta’s recently acquired AI startup Manus has launched a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It brings an agentic tool called My Computer, where you can type what you want and have it carry out tasks ...

In 2026, the average user interacts with more digital files than ever before. Documents, images, project folders, databases, and backups move constantly between laptops, desktops, external drives, and ...

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 is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people. At ...

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This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files. That’s because we’ve begun to learn more about the Justice Department’s controversial ...

Agentic file management shows real productivity promise. Security, scale, and trust remain major open questions. At $100 per month, Cowork is for early adopters only. "With great power comes great ...

One of the changes that we've seen in phones over recent years has been more control over the file systems. Having previously hidden away a lot of the local storage structure, Android and iOS now both ...

Motive offers fleet management software and is engaged in patent litigation with Samsara, one of its competitors. The company is backed by Alphabet's GV, Base10 Partners, Greenoaks, Index Ventures, ...

One way of viewing efforts by storage suppliers to move into data management over the past couple of years is that storage technology is emerging from the backroom and wants to be at the centre of ...