Claude Cowork is no longer tied to your desktop
Anthropic has announced that Claude Cowork will run natively on web and mobile. It will allow users to start long-running tasks on one device and continue monitoring them from another.
Cowork works on mobile and web now
Until now, Cowork only worked when your desktop app stayed open, which means closing the laptop paused whatever Claude was doing. That limitation is gone. Tasks can now run with no device online at all, so you could set a Monday morning briefing for 6 a.m. and find it finished, sourced from emails, transcripts, and news, with a follow-up draft waiting for your approval over coffee.
When Claude hits a decision only you can make, it pings your phone and waits. Nothing ships without your sign-off, whether you’re redirecting a draft mid-meeting or reviewing final output later.
The bigger shift: One interesting insight Anthropic shared is that more than 90% of Cowork sessions aren’t for software development. It was for ordinary knowledge like business operations, content creation, contract reviews, expense reconciliation, and client decks.
This means that Anthropic is framing Cowork as a general-purpose AI colleague that can handle multi-step office work with minimal supervision.
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Access to Cowork is rolling out to Max subscribers with support for more plans over the coming weeks.
By untethering Cowork from the desktop, the company is betting that the next generation of AI assistants won’t just answer questions—they’ll keep working in the background until the job is done.
