Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for you, is expanding beyond the desktop app.
You don’t need to leave your device active, aka laptop cracked open, to keep the agent going and run scheduled tasks overnight. Anthropic also announced limited versions of Cowork for users to interact with via its existing Claude smartphone app or the web browser, sans the formerly required desktop connection.
In the launch video for this feature, Anthropicshows someone asking for help with a business deal renewal scheduled for the following day. In a single prompt, the user asks Cowork to pull together data from email threads, Slack channels, meeting transcripts, and recent online chatter. Then the user asks Cowork to use that info to generate a reference document for the...
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