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Felix Rieseberg explains how the new version of Anthropic's Cowork moves model inference and the VM fully into the cloud, with per-session sandboxes, to fix battery, performance, and persistence issues of the local-VM approach.

Anthropic unifies its Claude chat and Cowork into a single interface to reduce user confusion, and adds features for creating presentations and documents. The update will be available to Pro and Max users first, with plans for broader rollout later.

Claude AI now includes a built-in browser in the Cowork platform, allowing it to navigate websites, fill forms, and complete tasks autonomously.

Anthropic has merged the memory systems of Claude chat and Cowork, making them share information by default. This update allows Claude to remember context across conversations and products, enhancing its functionality as a continuous assistant.

Anthropic upgrades the Claude side panel in Chrome into a full Cowork session, letting Claude read web pages, fill forms, run background tasks, and integrate with tools like Google Drive, CRM, and analytics dashboards. Sessions sync across devices and work with existing skills, plugins, and connectors.

Qwen3.8-Max sets a new benchmark for coding and collaborative work capabilities in AI models.

A user shares their prompt for using Claude Cowork to manage their calendar with constraints on meeting hours and deduplication.

Codex introduced a work mode, and Claude merged cowork and chat modes. This is a mode update for AI tools.

Anthropic is extending its Cowork agentic system to mobile apps, with evidence of cloud-based execution to remove the need for a desktop machine to remain awake, along with groundwork for a voice model refresh.

Anthropic released a repository of AI agents and plugins tailored for financial services workflows, including investment banking and wealth management, deployable via Claude Cowork or the Managed Agents API.