16 September 2026
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Computer use

Articles about Computer use from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.

Box inspects its heaviest AI users to find workflows worth teaching

Box CEO Aaron Levie says the company keeps a list of who burns the most tokens — not to encourage more spending, but to check whether the usage is waste or a practice worth demonstrating to everyone else. He describes pulling a team into a room within six hours to watch one colleague work, reports two-to-threefold gains in delivered customer-facing functionality in parts of the stack, and explains why Box will not drop code review.

6 min read

Astra tops one leaderboard and trails another — the panel reads it as a computer-use model

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra nearly saturates the interactive ARC-AGI-3 benchmark and leads Epoch AI's composite capability index, yet sits third on Artificial Analysis's suite, behind Claude Fable 5.1 and Muse Spark. On Moonshots EP #286, the panel works through what each ruler measures — and argues that Astra's real target was doing tasks with fewer output tokens, so a model can drive a desktop at conversational speed.

9 min read

What changes when an AI agent gets its own computer

On the Moonshots panel, Peter Diamandis runs a Grok Bot chief of staff called Skippy and Emad Mostaque runs 18 of them across his own machines, installing models and making art. Salim Ismail calls it the move from asking an AI to assigning work; Alex argues the messaging-app interface cannot possibly scale.

6 min read