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Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone.
Claude Cowork launched as a desktop app in January, but starting Tuesday it is available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. 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.
The product expansion is a signal that Anthropic wants Cowork to feel less like a coding tool for dummies and more like an agentic administrative coworker: something that can work in the background, tag along across devices, and request human input when a decision pops up only the user can make.
In other words: the coding agent wars are spilling into the rest of the office.
The move comes as AI firms try to push their products beyond chatbots into the everyday surfaces where work actually happens. OpenAI has made a similar move with Codex, which began as a software development tool but is increasingly being used by non-developers for reports, spreadsheets, presentations, research, data analysis and more.
For both labs, the bet is that success will depend less on who has the best chatbot and more on who owns the space where work gets done.
That push also extends to other apps. Anthropic recently launched Claude Tag, an always-on Claude that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate.
Beyond the benefits of one specific interface, launching Cowork as a multi-platform app means that the agent can continue running tasks in the background without a device online, the company says.
One example from Anthropic reads: “Set Monday’s client prep for 6 am: Claude works through the email threads, transcripts, and recent news, builds the briefing doc, and leaves the follow-up email drafted but unsent. Review it over coffee.”
The desktop app will remain the place for deep work, where Claude can access local files and the browser. But bringing Cowork to web and mobile means people who didn’t install the app can also use it. Anthropic says chat and Cowork will be unified in web and desktop to start, with projects and artifacts living together across both.
Anthropic also released early Cowork data, which suggests the clearest use case for the tool is the “work around the work” that keeps companies functioning, handling what Anthropic calls the “tasks that are part of a broad swath of jobs, but are rarely a person’s core responsibility.”
The study sampled 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations over the last two weeks of May.
The largest category at 33.4% was business process operating: pulling scattered updates into a single report, building onboarding checklists, and reconciling spreadsheets. Anthropic said the tasks are common among roles in finance, HR, and administration.
The next largest category at 16.4% was content creation and copywriting: tasks like drafts, slide decks, social posts, proposals, and other communications work that is usually performed by marketing and management positions. Software development, by comparison, only accounted for 8.7% of Cowork usage.
“While coding is still—understandably—one of the uses of AI that gets the most attention, the use of AI for everyday business work is on the rise, and the kinds of tasks people are finding it most helpful for are coming into focus,” Anthropic said in a blog post. “Our goal is to make this a reference point for people who are figuring out how to integrate AI products into their daily work, and to show where value is most concentrated.” When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.
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SpaceX has launched the upgraded third version of its Starship rocket for the first time, though the test launch did not go perfectly for Elon Musk’s spaceflight company.
The 407-foot rocket — the most powerful ever built — lifted off from SpaceX’s company town Starbase, Texas, at 5:30 p.m. local time. Just a few minutes later, the upper stage ship separated from the Super Heavy booster and continued on into space.
The booster pitched away from the Starship vehicle and headed back to Earth, where it was supposed to perform a simulated landing in the Gulf of Mexico. But the booster’s engines did not properly re-ignite for the sustained burn that is meant to deliver it back to the launch site. The booster then tumbled down to the water, where it likely exploded.
Starship, meanwhile, lost one of its six Raptor engines as it ascended into space. The ship was still moving through space on its way to the Indian Ocean at the time this story was published.
While it didn’t go exactly according to plan, this was an important test launch for SpaceX. It was the first real shakedown of the upgraded Starship V3 hardware, which has been in development for months. The company was also testing out an all-new launchpad at Starbase that it’s been developing and building for years.
The test launch also comes at a historical inflection point for SpaceX as a company. Its IPO filing was made public this week, and SpaceX is expected to list on the Nasdaq in mid-June. The IPO is reportedly supposed to raise around $75 billion for SpaceX, which the company plans to use to fuel further development, massive AI ambitions, and to pay off some of the debt associated with xAI and Musk’s social media company X. (That means this could also be the last Starship test launch to happen without a stock market reaction.)
SpaceX has spent years and billions of dollars developing Starship, which it sees as crucial to its mission of making life multi-planetary. The company plans to use Starship for NASA missions to the moon, and eventually Mars. But the big job it needs to perform in the near-term is delivering more advanced Starlink satellites to Earth orbit, as Starlink is the only profitable part of SpaceX’s business.
This was the first Starship flight since October 2025. SpaceX had planned to attempt launching Starship V3 earlier, but one of the first upgraded boosters suffered an explosion during testing in November. SpaceX first attempted the launch on Thursday but ultimately had to delay it as a hydraulic pin on the launch tower arm refused to retract, according to Musk.
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