MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in you

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works i

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.

The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microsoft's Copilot in the burgeoning market for AI-powered productivity tools.

"Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code," the company announced via its official Claude account on X. The feature arrives as a research preview available exclusively to Claude Max subscribers — Anthropic's power-user tier priced between $100 and $200 per month — through the macOS desktop application.

For the past year, the industry narrative has focused on large language models that can write poetry or debug code. With Cowork, Anthropic is betting that the real enterprise value lies in an AI that can open a folder, read a messy pile of receipts, and generate a structured expense report without human hand-holding.

How developers using a coding tool for vacation research inspired Anthropic's latest product

The genesis of Cowork lies in Anthropic's recent success with the developer community. In late 2024, the company released Claude Code, a terminal-based tool that allowed software engineers to automate rote programming tasks. The tool was a hit, but Anthropic noticed a peculiar trend: users were forcing the coding tool to perform non-coding labor.

According to Boris Cherny, an engineer at Anthropic, the company observed users deploying the developer tool for an unexpectedly diverse array of tasks.

"Since we launched Claude Code, we saw people using it for all sorts of non-coding work: doing vacation research, building slide decks, cleaning up your email, cancelling subscriptions, recovering wedding photos from a hard drive, monitoring plant growth, controlling your oven," Cherny wrote on X. "These use cases are diverse and surprising — the reason is that the underlying Claude Agent is the best agent, and Opus 4.5 is the best model."

Recognizing this shadow usage, Anthropic effectively stripped the command-line complexity from their developer tool to create a consumer-friendly interface. In its blog post announcing the feature, Anthropic explained that developers "quickly began using it for almost everything else," which "prompted us to build Cowork: a simpler way for anyone — not just developers — to work with Claude in the very same way."

Inside the folder-based architecture that lets Claude read, edit, and create files on your computer

Unlike a standard chat interface where a user pastes text for analysis, Cowork requires a different level of trust and access. Users designate a specific folder on their local machine that Claude can access. Within that sandbox, the AI agent can read existing files, modify them, or create entirely new ones.

Anthropic offers several illustrative examples: reorganizing a cluttered downloads folder by sorting and intelligently renaming each file, generating a spreadsheet of expenses from a collection of receipt screenshots, or drafting a report from scattered notes across multiple documents.

"In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder on your computer. Claude can then read, edit, or create files in that folder," the company explained on X. "Try it to create a spreadsheet from a pile of screenshots, or produce a first draft from scattered notes."

The architecture relies on what is known as an "agentic loop." When a user assigns a task, the AI does not merely generate a text response. Instead, it formulates a plan, executes steps in parallel, checks its own work, and asks for clarification if it hits a roadblock. Users can queue multiple tasks and let Claude process them simultaneously — a workflow Anthropic describes as feeling "much less like a back-and-forth and much more like leaving messages for a coworker."

The system is built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, meaning it shares the same underlying architecture as Claude Code. Anthropic notes that Cowork "can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks."

The recursive loop where AI builds AI: Claude Code reportedly wrote much of Claude Cowork

Perhaps the most remarkable detail surrounding Cowork's launch is the speed at which the tool was reportedly built — highlighting a recursive feedback loop where AI tools are being used to build better AI tools.

During a livestream hosted by Dan Shipper, Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic employee, confirmed that the team built Cowork in approximately a week and a half.

Alex Volkov, who covers AI developments, expressed surprise at the timeline: "Holy shit Anthropic built 'Cowork' in the last… week and a half?!"

This prompted immediate speculation about how much of Cowork was itself built by Claude Code. Simon Smith, EVP of Generative AI at Klick Health, put it bluntly on X: "Claude Code wrote all of Claude Cowork. Can we all agree that we're in at least somewhat of a recursive improvement loop here?"

The implication is profound: Anthropic's AI coding agent may have substantially contributed to building its own non-technical sibling product. If true, this is one of the most visible examples yet of AI systems being used to accelerate their own development and expansion — a strategy that could widen the gap between AI labs that successfully deploy their own agents internally and those that do not.

Connectors, browser automation, and skills extend Cowork's reach beyond the local file system

Cowork doesn't operate in isolation. The feature integrates with Anthropic's existing ecosystem of connectors — tools that link Claude to external information sources and services such as Asana, Notion, PayPal, and other supported partners. Users who have configured these connections in the standard Claude interface can leverage them within Cowork sessions.

Additionally, Cowork can pair with Claude in Chrome, Anthropic's browser…

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🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: NASA Scientists Screamed With Delight When They Saw Somet

As NASA’s Artemis 2 crew careened around the far side of the Moon earlier this week — breaking the record for how far humans have ever traveled from Earth in the process — they were treated to an incredible view.

As they cruised past the Moon’s heavily-crated far side, the astronauts watched in amazement as micrometeorites impacted the lunar surface, catching both them and mission control off guard. The mission’s crew said they witnessed at least six impacts on the lunar far side during the almost-one-hour-long total solar eclipse as the Sun went out of view behind the Earth from their perspective.

There were “audible screams of delight” at Mission Control in Houston, as mission science lead Kelsey Young recalled during a Tuesday press conference.

“There was a little giddiness,” NASA astronaut and commander Reid Wiseman told Houston during the observation period. “We have seen three impact flashes so far. I saw two, and [mission specialist Jeremy Hansen] has seen one.”

“Undoubtedly quick impact flashes,” he said, adding that “it was not Sun glint off a particulate from the thrusters or the burns tanks.”

“And Jeremy just saw another one,” Wiseman added.

The face on Young said it all. The livestream showed her jaw hitting the floor as she looked around the room at Mission Control in disbelief.

“I don’t know if I expected to have the crew see any on this mission, so you probably saw the surprise and shock on my face,” she later recalled.

While the team said that they already got what they came for — astonishing close-up views of the lunar surface and its unusual geographical features — the constant bombardment of tiny meteorites was unexpected.

“This is absolutely everything we hoped for by integrating science into flight operations,” Young told reporters. “Science enables exploration, and exploration enables science.”

“They were really high-priority science for us, so the fact that they saw four or five was just outstanding,” Canadian backup astronaut Jenni Gibbons told Agence France-Presse.

Micrometeorites are already a major point of discussion as the United States continues to push for the establishment of a permanent settlement on the Moon. Besides “moonquakes” and massive amounts of space radiation, future astronauts will need to have sufficient shelter to protect them from these errant space rocks.

Without a protective atmosphere like the Earth’s, which acts as a shield and causes most meteorites to burn up, the Moon is largely exposed, as evidenced in its crater-riddled appearance.

Even if the fragments are extremely small, they can still impact the surface with a huge amount of force while traveling tens of miles per second. In other words, future lunar habitats will quite literally be bulletproof.

In a 2025 study, scientists used NASA’s Meteoroid Engineering Model to calculate impact rates for a hypothetical lunar base the size of the International Space Station. They found that between 15,000 and 23,000 particles, ranging from a millionth of a gram to ten grams, could strike such a habitat per year. (It’s unclear whether the latest first-hand observations could influence their findings.)

However, the researchers identified some areas — including the lunar south pole, which NASA is eyeing for its first Artemis base — as being less battered.

Another possibility is to seek shelter inside deeper craters or caves left behind by lava tubes to shield both from meteorites and space radiation, an idea we’ve only begun to explore.

More on the mission: We’re In Utter Disbelief About the Photos the Moon Astronauts Just Sent Back

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