The Tech Download: Meta, Google enter AI agent race as ‘agentic wars’ heat up

The viral personal assistant OpenClaw has triggered a rush among Big Tech to build agentic tools.

Google is working on a “24/7 personal agent” that sounds a lot like its answer to OpenClaw

Google is building an AI agent codenamed Remy inside its Gemini app, as the company looks to compete in a fast-moving market ...

Latest beta version of Windows 11 gets the AI agent that Microsoft promised it would add: A search tool that works

Just for Snapdragon X PCs at the moment, though.
PC Magazine

Meta's Manus Launches Desktop App With AI Agent for Tasks Across Files, Apps

Meta’s recently acquired AI startup Manus has launched a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It features an agentic tool called My Computer that allows you to use text prompts to execute tasks ...
techtimes

Perplexity Unveils ‘Computer,’ Autonomous Multi-Agent AI That Plans, Builds, Executes Complex Tasks

AI agents speed up tasks while allowing people to focus on other complicated tasks. Perplexity, for instance, has caught up in this game by unveiling its newest AI agent named "Computer." The ...
eWeek

Tencent Launches QClaw AI Agent Beta to Global Users on Windows, Mac

Tencent’s QClaw AI agent is rolling out in global beta, bringing a simpler Windows and Mac setup to 20,000 users across five ...
AOL

What is a computer use agent?

What is a computer use agent? One of the big downsides of AI chatbots was that they were originally limited to their conversational interface, but that's now changing. With Claude computer use ...
Reuters

Skywork Launches Desktop AI Agent for Windows Productivity

SINGAPORE, February 6, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Skywork, opens new tab recently announced the launch of Skywork Desktop, opens new tab, a Windows system client that brings agentic AI workflows to ...