Cowork

One week after debuting on Mac, Claude’s computer use research preview has arrived on Windows — and it’s already baked directly into two of Anthropic’s flagship tools. On April 2-3, 2026, Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork and Claude Code to support direct desktop control on Windows machines. The official @claudeai Twitter account confirmed the rollout on April 2, and Anthropic’s help center now documents the feature for both platforms. What Computer Use Actually Does Claude’s computer use capability allows the AI to operate your desktop directly — moving the cursor, clicking buttons, typing text, launching applications — as a fallback mechanism when standard integrations aren’t available. Think of it as a universal adapter: if there’s no API or plugin for a task, Claude can just do what a human user would do. ...

Claude Code earned Anthropic significant developer mindshare — and significant revenue — by becoming the AI coding assistant of choice for software engineers who wanted something that could actually navigate a codebase. But a top Anthropic executive now publicly believes the company’s next major product will surpass it. In an interview with Bloomberg, the executive described Cowork — Anthropic’s general-purpose agentic assistant, currently in research preview — as the company’s “answer to general-purpose agentic AI” and expressed a clear expectation that it would reach a wider market than Claude Code ever did. ...

Anthropic just shipped something that feels genuinely futuristic: a way to hand tasks to your AI agent from your phone and come back later to find them done. It’s called Claude Dispatch, and it launched March 17 as a research preview inside Claude Cowork — currently available to Max subscribers on Mac. What Is Claude Dispatch? Claude Dispatch is a new capability within Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s persistent desktop agent environment. The core idea: one continuous conversation with Claude that lives on your Mac, reachable from anywhere via your phone. ...

Anthropic has entered the desktop agent arena in earnest. Cowork — the company’s native Windows application — brings Claude AI directly to your desktop as an active participant in file management, workflow automation, and system interaction, not just a chat interface. It’s a significant expansion of how Anthropic thinks about where Claude lives and what it does. For anyone watching the competition between self-hosted agents like OpenClaw and cloud-native offerings, Cowork is the clearest signal yet that the major AI labs are treating the desktop as a battleground. ...

Anthropic just made Claude Cowork significantly more useful for anyone who wants their AI to keep working after they close the laptop. The desktop app now supports scheduled recurring tasks — meaning you can set Claude to run daily research, organize folders, compile summaries, or handle any repeatable workflow automatically, whether you’re at your desk or not. This is a meaningful shift. Cowork launched as a capable task runner, but it required you to be present to kick things off. With scheduled tasks, it starts to look a lot more like the always-on agent model that tools like OpenClaw have been built around from the start. ...

Claude Cowork Goes Deep Enterprise: A Plugin Marketplace Built for the Office, Not the Lab Anthropic isn’t building a research tool anymore. With Monday’s launch of the Claude Cowork enterprise plugin marketplace, it’s making a direct play for the workflows that run actual businesses — the spreadsheets, the contracts, the HR systems, the design files. And the market took notice. Enterprise software incumbents felt the pressure — a signal that AI-native platforms are being taken seriously as competitive threats in corporate workflows. ...