Agent S4 evolves interfaces and leads open-source OSWorld
With Qwen3.8-27B it scores 21.3% on OSWorld V2, 3.8 times the same model with fixed interfaces.
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With Qwen3.8-27B it scores 21.3% on OSWorld V2, 3.8 times the same model with fixed interfaces.
Qwen3.8-27B with evolved interfaces scores 21.3%, above GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 at far lower cost.
OpenGCUA open-sources a generalist computer-use stack that lifts OSWorld-v2 scores and cuts steps.
OS-Helix-27B-RL reaches 66.44% on OSWorld-Verified, a further 42.9% relative gain after RL.
LEASH escalates computer-use agents by latent uncertainty, matching Claude Opus 5 at 19% lower cost.
MAI-Gym unifies GUI-agent evaluation and online RL; its 9B agent scores 78.4% on MobileWorld.
Authors report gains of 5.8% and 7.0% with token cuts of 51.9% and 22.9% on two benchmarks.
Work2Skill turns human GUI demos into reusable skills that raise computer-use agent scores.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, about 75 percent cheaper than Haiku 4.5, with much stronger computer use.
SoftwareGym's 182 synthetic apps lift a computer-use agent to 56.97% OSWorld Pass@3.
CUAWright, a minimal bash-and-filesystem harness, outperforms GUI computer-use agents on several benchmarks.
GUI-HARVEST evolves GUI agent harnesses, lifting frozen Qwen3-VL by 12.33 points on OSWorld.
DeskForge supplies 1.2 million annotated desktop scenes that improve GUI grounding and long-horizon computer-use agents.
ComputerSD turns real-time GUI feedback into online self-distillation signals for computer-use agents.
OSWorld-Science benchmarks 12 VLMs on 146 scientific software tasks with artifact-based scoring.

H Company releases Holo4 open-weight computer-use models (27B dense, 35B-A3B MoE) that operate GUIs, code and tool calls across desktop, web, Android and APIs.
HybridCUA-9B combines GUI and CLI actions, reaching 53.6% on OSWorld, up 14.8 points.
OSWorld-Pro adds process-level subgoals so computer-use agent failures can be diagnosed beyond final outcomes.
OSWorld-Pro scores computer-use agents on over 300 tasks; Claude Opus 5 reaches 75.7%.
MintAct vision-language models at 2B, 4B, and 8B unify UI grounding, multi-step navigation, and visual tool use, matching per-domain specialists.
RSIAgent, a training-free multi-agent framework, builds reusable environment memory enabling Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.3 to beat GPT-6.

UC Berkeley's CUA-Lite is an open platform unifying computer-use agent sandboxes, datasets, evaluation and RL; Lite.OSWorld cuts OSWorld memory 4.1 GB to 0.9 GB.
Researchers introduce CUA-Universe, a pipeline turning real desktop software into hybrid GUI+CLI agent environments, lifting a 9B model's OSWorld success rate.

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, topping the DeepSWE coding leaderboard six weeks after 3.7 Flash, alongside the cybersecurity-focused 3.8 Flash Cyber.
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