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Anthropic this week extended Claude Cowork, its agentic tool for general knowledge work, to web and mobile platforms for Max subscribers, after launching as a desktop-only app in January. The update lets users start tasks from a desktop and monitor or retrieve results from their phone, reflecting Anthropic’s ambition to position Cowork as a background […]
Cowork's move to mobile and the web shows how AI is extending into how people work.
Anthropic is bringing its Claude Cowork AI agent to web and mobile platforms, a move aimed at helping enterprise users monitor and manage long-running AI-driven tasks from anywhere as organizations increasingly adopt agents for operational and knowledge work. The rollout, according to the company, is based on an analysis of 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Claude Cowork sessions conducted between May 11 and May 31 that showed that business process and operations accounted for the largest share of the AI agent’s usage at 33.4%, followed by content creation and copywriting at 16.4%, the company wrote in a blog post. Software development represented only 8.7% of sessions, ahead of DevOps and infrastructure at 7%, along with research and intelligence at 6.4%, and data analysis and business intelligence (5.8%). Cowork’s expansion, which is currently in beta, will allow users to start and manage Claude Cowork sessions directly from the Claude interface on the web and mobile, while enabl
Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans "in the coming weeks." Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, but now users on iOS and Android can also use it. However, Anthropic says the "full experience" for Cowork will still be on the desktop app, including features like local file access. Cowork sessions will also now run in the cloud by default, so you can continue them across different devices or run Cowork ta … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic's focus on AI as a productivity tool rather than a job threat may influence enterprise AI adoption and reshape tech market dynamics. The post Anthropic pitches Claude Cowork as productivity booster, quietly walking back job-loss fears appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.
