Overview
- Anthropic began a beta rollout Tuesday that gives Max plan subscribers first access to cloud-hosted Claude Cowork and says it will expand the feature to other paid tiers in the coming weeks.
- On web and desktop Claude Chat and Cowork now share a single interface so projects and generated files follow a session across devices.
- New scheduled tasks run in Anthropic’s cloud by default while existing scheduled tasks continue to run only on the local device until users move them manually.
- Anthropic published usage from 1.2 million anonymized May sessions showing more than 90 percent of Cowork activity is non‑coding work, with 33.4 percent in business operations and 16.4 percent in content creation.
- The company preserved the desktop app as the full feature set for deep work that needs local files or a browser, kept pause‑for‑approval and permission prompts to require human review, and doubled Cowork usage limits through August 5 to encourage testing.