Computer-Use 2.0: Agents Just Got Multi-Cursor - Francesco Bonacci, Cua

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    Francesco Bonacci contrasts the screenshot-and-click loop with a driver that can act on a chosen background window without taking over the user's hardware cursor. Accessibility actions are tried before pixel-based background interaction, with platform differences acknowledged rather than treated as identical behavior across operating systems.

    Dillon DuPont describes CUABench tasks as setup, a reference GUI trajectory and an evaluator that checks the resulting environment. The team tests tasks for reward hacking before admitting them, and can fork recorded states to measure whether a model predicts the computer's state accurately. Reported benchmark gains from window-focused tooling remain results of the team's tests, while electrical-engineering tasks expose substantial limits, especially from a blank schematic.

    Robert Wendt explains why slow sandbox startup can leave expensive GPU workers idle during reinforcement-learning rollouts. Demand-based warm pools shift that waiting cost into cheaper environment infrastructure and adjust capacity as workload needs change. The talk closes with Android background interaction and tool-use distinctions; it does not establish that every mobile application can be controlled unobtrusively.

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    Portraits of Francesco Bonacci, Dillon DuPont, Robert Wendt against black with the headline MULTI-CURSOR AGENTS in attention blue and white. Framed in blue with WWW.ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE.VIDEO, 15 July 2026 and duration 16m 41s.

    Francesco Bonacci, Dillon DuPont and Robert Wendt explain Cua's background computer-use driver, environment-based evaluations and warm sandbox pools for agent training.