Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile and web. Until now, the feature was only available through the desktop app.
Beta access will go live gradually over the coming weeks, starting with Max subscribers. With the expansion to mobile and web, users can kick off a task at their desk, check on it from their phone, and pull up the finished result in a browser anywhere. Claude keeps working in the background even when the laptop is closed or the phone is turned off.
The "human in the loop" goes mobile, too. When Claude hits a point where only a person can make the call, the agent asks via smartphone. Nothing gets sent without the user reviewing and approving it first, Anthropic says.
Anthropic says more than 90 percent of Cowork usage isn't software work. That shouldn't surprise anyone, since Cowork was always positioned as an agentic harness for general knowledge work, not coding. The two biggest categories are business operations and content creation, things like reconciling quarterly spend, drafting variance memos, or building client decks from call transcripts. According to Anthropic, those two categories make up roughly half of all usage.
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