Manus 2.0 ships: Manus Studio on desktop, Cue gives every agent a phone number and wallet
Manus shipped 2.0: a desktop Manus Studio, a Cascade framework with claimed 32% cost cuts, and Cue — an invite-beta app where each agent gets its own wallet.
Device control
Published entries across all sections carrying the “Device control” tag, newest first by publication date on this site.
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OpenAI launches Dots: always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer and 4,000+ app integrations, rolling out to paid plans first.
Muse vs Manus 2.0 vs Grok Bot: three roads to the personal AI agent
In seven weeks, xAI, Meta, and Manus all shipped personal AI agents. Here is how their architectures, self-reported benchmarks, reputations, and origin stories compare.
phone-harness
phone-harness lets Claude Code or Codex control a real iPhone or Android — no jailbreak, nothing on the phone; iPhone rides Mac mirroring, Android runs on adb.
China’s 1.6T open-source model Nex-N2.5 tops BrowseComp, beating GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek-V4 on agent work
Shanghai Innovation Institute released the Nex-N2.5 family on September 9, 2026 — 35B, 397B and 1.6T models, all under Apache-2.0. On the official table the 1.6T Max tops BrowseComp at 92.6, ahead of Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and outscores GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro on automation and tool-use benchmarks.
OpenMausBot: your AI agents, living in a chat app
OpenMausBot is an open-source desktop chat app that turns the Claude Code, Codex and Grok CLIs already on your machine into bots in a sidebar: each bot gets its own personality, model, memory and a computer to work on, and asks before it acts. Instead of juggling terminals and vendor sites, you get one entry point over logins you already have, with transcripts kept local.
Escrcpy: A GUI Tool for Android Screen Mirroring and Multi-device Control
Escrcpy is an open-source desktop app built on the scrcpy core that provides Android screen mirroring and mouse/keyboard control through a graphical interface, with wireless connections, multi-device control, and automation workflows, no command-line flags required.