Anthropic shipped Claude Cowork to web, iOS, and Android on July 7, opening in beta to Max subscribers first. Cowork is an autonomous agent: you hand it a task, it runs, and now it doesn’t need your laptop open to keep going.
What actually changed
The desktop app was leash-length — close the lid, work stops. The new version runs in the cloud. Start a task at your desk, watch it from your phone, grab the output anywhere. You can schedule work too: tell it to build your Monday client briefing at 6am, and it churns through email threads, transcripts, and news while you sleep, leaving the follow-up drafted but unsent. When it hits a call only you can make, it pings your phone.
Why this one matters
The tell is a data point Anthropic dropped alongside launch: across 1.2 million sessions from 600,000+ organizations, coding was just 8.7% of usage. The biggest category was business operations at 33%, then content at 16%. Cowork started as a coding agent’s cousin — it’s turning into a general office worker. That puts it head-to-head with ChatGPT’s push into work, and the fight is no longer about who writes better code.
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