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ANTHROPIC AND OPENAI BOTH MISSED THIS. Someone just open-sourced one SDK that gives AI agents a mouse, keyboard, and screen across macOS, Linux, and Windows. It's called CUA. Same code drives a local VM or a cloud sandbox regardless of the OS. Your agent sees the screen, clicks, types,...

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