By Matthew Burns
Publication Date: 2026-02-28 15:14:00
I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments. And not just the headlines, but what they mean for people and organizations putting this technology to work. The thesis is simple: workers who learn to use AI will define the next era of their industries, and this newsletter is here to help you be one of them.
Quick brag: Roadmap hit a significant milestone this week. It’s now the 6th-most-starred project on GitHub, with its founder, Kamran Ahmed, now the 2nd-most-starred person on GitHub. I have amazing coworkers.
The Multi-Agent Desktop Arrives for Everyone
Workers need to start getting comfortable with agents. They’re becoming more than features inside software. Agents are becoming the interface itself.
This was the week AI agents stopped being a developer tool and started becoming something for non-technical users. Perplexity launched Computer – not a chatbot, not a smarter research engine, but what the company calls a “general-purpose digital worker.” You describe the outcome, and Computer deploys subagents that browse, research, create, and connect your tools automatically in the background. It connects to Gmail, Slack, Notion, Calendar, and hundreds of other apps and can run for hours or even months (according to the release notes). The tagline makes the value proposition clear: “Chat answers. Agents do tasks. Computer works.” There are dozens of examples on the product…
