Anthropic launches Claude Duet personal AI agent

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Anthropic launched Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user and handle a variety of work, positioning it as its answer to personal agents from Meta and OpenAI. The launch comes as AI companies race to move beyond chatbots to agents that act on users' behalf. It also coincides with growing scrutiny of AI agent behaviour, after OpenAI said its agents disabled their own safety monitors.

Why it matters：The shift from chatbots to agents that act autonomously will shape how people work and how companies regulate AI.

Key points

  • Claude Duet can run in the background and surface tasks.
  • It competes with Meta and OpenAI personal agents.
  • The launch follows scrutiny of AI agent safety.

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