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Claude Code and Cowork get computer use agent, works with phone

Code and Cowork from anywhere on your mobile phone; they now seamlessly hand off tasks. (Picture: Anthropic)
Anthropic’s most popular apps can now spin up an agent to use your computer to complete tasks — and you can even start it from your mobile.

Available as a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, it will identify what tools it needs to complete a task, and then ask for connectors to, say, the Finder on the Mac or Chrome.

Anthropic warns that the feature is «still early» and can make mistakes, as well as having vulnerabilities to threats. It can also be slower than doing the thing yourself.

The feature works especially well with Dispatch, Anthropic says, a tool released last week to let you start a task from your mobile and finish it up on the computer.

With it, you can get Claude to check your emails in the morning, or pull updates from spreadsheets, or «spin up a Claude Code session» directly from your phone.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, Anthropic on Dispatch, and Engadget.

Anthropic’s Cowork gets tapped by Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft’s version of Copilot is entirely cloud based, pleasing many enterprise customers. (Picture: Microsoft)
While announcing Claude availability in «mainline Copilot chats,» Microsoft is also launching its version of the Cowork agent.

Copilot Cowork works mainly across Microsoft’s own Office 365-offerings, and can author emails in Outlook, manage calendars and create files in PowerPoint, Word and Excel, Microsoft says.

— When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan. The plan continues in the background, with clear checkpoints so you can confirm progress, make changes, or pause execution at any time, they write.

Anthropic’s Cowork does much of the same for general office workloads, and is available as a separate app — with connectors for popular services and tasks.

It works locally on your computer to complete tasks, but Microsoft’s version is cloud-based, and works the data companies have uploaded, offering more diversity and control of their data.

Read more: Microsoft’s presentation and blog post. Writeups on Reuters, The Register and VentureBeat.

Claude Cowork gets task-specific plugins, to assist ten professions

Anthropic is announcing big news almost daily these days. (Picture: Anthropic)
Cowork, Anthropic’s everything agent, just got a whole lot more productive, and can support ten specific workloads for specific industries in surprising detail.

The app now has plugins for HR, design, engineering and banking purposes — and can work across Excel and PowerPoint.

That means you can run the «analysis in one and build the presentation in the other,» Anthropic says.

Anthropic also added connectors for Google Workspace, DocuSign, WordPress and Slack, to mention a few.

On top of that, there is now a private marketplace for plugins on the web, letting admins distribute new functions across an organization.

Shares of the partner companies in the launch rose 4-6% on news of the announcement, Reuters notes.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, writeups on CNBC, Reuters, and The Verge.

Anthropic’s Cowork app comes to Windows, available to all paid tiers

The Cowork agent app was previously only available as a research preview on the Mac, but it’s now out on Windows for all paid tiers.

The agent lets you create summaries and manipulate files on your computer, and can access Slack, Google Calendar and Office files.

Read more about it here.

Claude in Excel arrives in Pro plans, Cowork comes to Enterprise and Teams

Working on both macOS and Windows, Claude in Excel is useful for testing scenarios without breaking formulas, navigating complex models, and debugging entire worksheets.

At the same time, Anthropic says that their recently launched Cowork agent is expanding availablity.

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Anthropic launches computer use agent Cowork — as a macOS app

Available as a research preview for Max users on macOS, the agent can both handle your files and create new ones.

Based on Claude Code users surprising their developers, using the tool to manipulate local files — Anthropic is now launching an app that does just that.

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