- Anthropic today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant, breaking it free from the desktop.
- With this update, users can start on their desktop and continue on mobile or the web, so they can keep going even when they’re not at their keyboard.
- Starting with Max users in beta mode, the $100- to $200-a-month subscription plan for Anthropic’s AI tools, users can now start a task on their laptop, let Claude begin its work, and walk away.
- Scheduled tasks will now run without the need for a computer to be online to activate them.
- Anthropic released Cowork in January 2026 and in May, the company surveyed 1.2 million anonymized sessions, categorizing them across a number of types of work.
- The largest category turned out to be business process and operations – that is, anything that might be considered a type of knowledge work that requires looking through scattered documents and compiling them into a single report or handling tedious data comparison tasks.
- This category represented 33.4% of all usage.
- The second-largest category was content creation and copywriting — anything that required synthesizing communications, producing drafts, slide decks or other document work.
- This category measured in at 16.4% of all usage.
- According to the company, users from numerous enterprise roles used the tool in their everyday work, including marketing, communications, business development and project management.
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI has been expanded to web and mobile, allowing users to start tasks on their desktop and continue seamlessly on other devices. This update is currently in beta for Max users, with subscription plans ranging from $100 to $200 a month.1
The AI assistant, launched in January 2026, has seen significant usage across various enterprise roles, including marketing and project management. A survey of 1.2 million anonymized sessions revealed that 33.4% of users engaged in business process and operations tasks, while 16.4% focused on content creation and copywriting.678910
Notably, scheduled tasks can now run independently of a computer's online status, enhancing user flexibility. This feature is particularly beneficial for knowledge workers who often juggle multiple documents and data comparison tasks.4
According to Anthropic, the tool has been embraced by users across diverse roles, streamlining workflows and improving productivity in everyday tasks.
“With a subscription plan ranging from $100 to $200 a month, users can now initiate tasks on their desktop and let Claude handle them while away. In a recent survey, 1.2 million sessions revealed that 33.4% of usage focused on business processes, highlighting the tool's utility in knowledge work.”
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