Anthropic on Tuesday expanded Claude Cowork, its AI agent for workplace tasks, to mobile and web, enabling users to start, monitor and complete tasks across devices. The update also shifts task execution to the cloud, allowing Claude to continue working even after a laptop is closed or offline.
Claude Cowork is designed to automate multi-step workflows by connecting with files, email, calendars, messaging platforms and web services. Users assign a task and define the desired outcome, after which Claude carries out the work autonomously. Previously, these tasks ran locally on a user's device and paused when the device was no longer active. With the latest update, tasks execute on Anthropic's cloud infrastructure and remain accessible from any linked device.
According to Anthropic, the update focuses on making Claude Cowork more accessible across devices while enabling tasks to continue running in the cloud. The company said users will still receive notifications whenever Claude requires human approval, and no emails or other actions will be completed without explicit confirmation.
Key features include:
Cross-device syncing, allowing users to start a task on one device and continue monitoring it on another.
Background execution, enabling Claude to keep working even after a laptop is closed or offline.
Scheduled cloud-based tasks, which can run without any device being online.
Desktop users will continue to have access to browser control and local file integration, while the web and mobile versions rely on cloud-based task execution. The feature is rolling out in beta to Max subscribers, with wider availability planned in the coming weeks.
Alongside the launch, Anthropic released data from 1.2 million anonymised Claude Cowork sessions across 600,000 organisations, showing that over 90% of usage involved non-coding tasks, with business operations and content creation accounting for nearly half of all activity. The rollout reflects a broader industry shift towards AI agents that can autonomously handle workplace tasks, while also raising fresh questions around privacy and cloud-based data processing.
